Cultic is Boomer Shooters Done Right 

🎵Blood, blood, gallons of the stuff...🎵 Thanks for being patient with this. I became ill after the Overwatch video. Still ill now, but getting better. Definitely just a cold this time at least.

Its not everyday a one man passion project like this happens, but anytime it does its always a treat to play through.

Cultic for me joins the ranks of Ionfury, Dusk, Ultrakill and Amid Evil with regards to it's high quality.

"Building's haunted... Building's haunted! Gotta burn it down!" I love how nonchalant and jovial that sounds. Also, that Neko Arc was unexpected.

I'm fucking amazed how many people are still sleeping on Cultic. The bang-for-your-buck in this game is great, and it's just such a fun blend of frenetic shooting and actually decent tense horror moments. And hell, any FPS with a flamethrower that isn't just good but basically the BFG deserves a gold star. It's one of a very few games I've actually *bought* for fence-sitting friends because I think it really deserves it. Guess that puts me in the cult.

THIS is the blood 2 we should have gotten! Comparing Cultic to Blood, is like comparing DOOM 2 to DOOM, it takes everything the predecessor did, and shoots it up to 11, I LOVE IT

17:22 That mess of typing showing up on the paper is pretty cool.

The boomer shooter renaissance coughed up as much crap as it has quality, but CULTIC and Ion Fury felt like the biggest breathes of fresh air. Just good old-fashioned chunky, tactile violence in rich, immersive environments, taking all the right cues from the best of the 90's Build Engine. I'm still waiting for somebody to make a right and proper successor to Heretic and Hexen.

I'm not entirely familiar with the "Boomer Shooter" genre but nonetheless this video was incredibly entertaining to watch. Keep up the high quality videos king 👍.

i like that CulticGuy has leons jacket from re4 :)

The option to disable the music slowdown is brilliant

Slow-mo on headshots, damn, reminds me of ZedTime from Killing Floor. I remember when Dread Templar used to have it, current version lacks this feature and I WANT IT BACK!

That skybox tho...so beautiful.

I'm pretty familiar with Boomer Shooters, but I think this is the one that made me have the distinction between Quake and Doom types, and I'm more a Quake fan. Still, extremely excellent game that is.

So Ive only watched four minutes of this review, got curious and saw that this is one of the gems that offer a demo version, so ofc I tried it. Its magnificent and I bet that the way I felt while playing it was exactly like the feeling my dad had when he played the old Doom

I played the demo recently on very hard, and it sure was very hard. I just don't like how enemies can spot an hit you from miles away, since I could barely make them out. I'd have to guess whether something was an object or an enemy at a distance. Maybe all of this is just cause I was playing on very hard.

My only complaint is the default weapon hotkey, remapped that and was gold. Shotgun is always 3, machine gun on 4 Literally everything else was perfect

Good job dude... I find myself eager to understand what the cult in cultic is and is up too .. I'm pining for the backstory of the action and I've never touched a button of the game... Maybe never will. You did your job well in this video

Love this game, and I usually can't stand FPS games for over an hour or so. This I completed happily, just waiting for the episode 2 to come out one day. This game just looks, sounds and feels so damn good.

Comments are either: “This game’s great!” Or “Definitely looking into this!” “Eh, not for me.” or “This doesn’t count as a ‘boomer shooter’ for me.” “ **Some comment about the term ‘boomer shooter’ not being accurate.** “ or “ **Angry about ‘boomer shooter’ being in the title.** “

I feel like I should note that the AMC Squad did the 'health items go into field kit' mechanic first. The 'slow-mo upon kills' mechanic too.

I would love something like this in VR and Co-op!

Dude, your reviews and playthroughs are so detailed, smooth and well done! You must be an excellent seller! 😂 Btw, are Shadow Warrior (1997) and Hexen II considered "Boomer Shooter" games too? 🤔

I think my favorite part of Cultic was the intro, I'm not sure why though.

* Pretentious 🤓☝ comment about the semantics of Boomer Shooter *

I wonder if the game is originally in hi-color with a 8-bit color filter on top, or if it was initially made with only 8-bit. Obviously this is their decision of style but i would prefer if it had just a slight bit more color. Then it would look about like Unreal (1998)

Yup les go another video on great-games-with-retro-graphics-which-I-definitely-should-buy-it-on-steam-summer-sale

Take influences from so many places, helps creating something new. At this point you can't even see what the orginal was.

One of my all time favorites is Quake 1 for many reasons, but it's hard for me to find other games of that era and such that peak my interest. Quake 1 was an absolute gem. But look at this game. it's 10 bucks, and HAS A DEMO!!!

Absolute favorite boomer shooter, hands down. So good, that it even supplanted the original Blood in my top list of games. Can't wait for episode 2

How come this video has only 37K views and this channel only 90K subs?! Epic content!!!

Low-res palette is bit too much for me, but it has definetly a charm. Maranax infirmux!

LOL, THE FUCKING "I LIVE AGAIN" FROM BLOOD :DDDDDD

I bought this game on your recommendation. Loved the hell out of it. Really hope Jason makes an Episode 2

That's literally the Blood intro ... If anyone remember that game.

Back in the demo there was no slide cool down so you could slide at the speed of light (I don’t know if this is still a feature)

Living in rural America is great! There are few (if any) people, but people from more urban areas just come in and treat us like we're a tourist attraction.

Isn’t that the exact opening of Blood? Rising from the grave while saying I live again?

beautiful game flawless looking

....I'm embarrassed to say, but I only played this last Fall, and thought the first level that was all that was worked out. Looks like I owe it another go, if there was 10 whole levels so far! Loved Blood - at least the parts that don't annoy the daylights out of me. Cultists jabbering while I'm lighting them up was one of my favorite parts about it, and I've recently learned there's actually a mod that gives the cultists that same voice pack in Cultic.

I hope this makes its way to Xbox. Would love to have Cultic, Quake, Quake 2, Duke Nukem, Boltgun and Prodeus all in one place. They need to get Blood onto Xbox as well.

The only thing I'm not a fan is the color pallet. Sometimes it fucks up level design because it's so bland all around and you can't see where to go or what to do. Beside that, hell of a game! Boomer shooter finesse.

Looks awesome, the color pallette tho, can't see anything at all D:

I wish a company would make an open world rpg in this aesthetic 😢

I wonder if you've played Iconoclasts and what you think of it.

"Gotta burn it down" Yeah thats valid.

I have no interest in playing boomer shooters but I love watching videos about them. Thank you for the great videos.

This and Prodeus are great. Cultic just needs a complete release with many many more missions.

Not the Tekwar jokes. I wish someone would remake that game the right way.

Reminds me of hunt showdown too

"I like it so much, I want to get better at it." Welcome to Dark Souls.

You can't just hit me with that burunyuu. It's almost midnight, I'm trying to be quiet!

11:40 is the bane of my existence

Had to comment even if it’s late, jebus mcreebus this game looks good, like visually it looks so cool

This reminds me of Hexen..

This is a certified Civvie moment

You should play Selaco.

a boomer shooter that isnt a generic arena shooter where you jump around? fucking finally.

I just now realized that the detective is wearing a bomber jacket.

Sold!

Wish I had a pc to play these games.

now if only if it got a switch port

When you said that blood uses voxels, that’s not completely true, in the original blood many objects, especially environmental objects, did not, with the keys as an exception, blood fresh supply does give the option to turn them on though. Also I don’t mean for this to come off as antagonistic it’s just something I noticed.

Is this a Blood spin-off?

Lol I also delighted at seeing my horrible typing skills on the paper

Looks just like outlaws to me

Immersive sim vibes. oOo

I'm sold. Great analysis.

The sound of the video was so poorly mixed that I didn't notice any music in the background untill you mentioned it playing in the video and then still could not hear anything when trying to put my attention to it.

jason🤝hakita single handedly developing some of the best boomer shooters of the entire renaissance the genre is having by themselves

I just bought this game because of this video, and holy shit it is fucking awesome

Please tell me this will be on console?

Don’t know how many loaves of bread I have a eaten I guess I thought video games wore more memorable bread

oh my god i want episode 2 so bad

This is basically blood

Great game

Have you played ultrakill

Only boomer shooter I've beat so far, loved it

If doom/quake style shooters are boomer shooters are battle royales like fortnite and apex Gen Z shooters? 🤔

How is the battle pass?

"Doom Inspired"

This game sounds good! I usually do not deell in these new so called "boomer shooters" because most of them are not like the old ones. (I'm looking at you Ultrakill). This one instead feels old!

Living in rural America is pretty sweet nowadays...but oof, back before we got widespread decent internet access it was rough buddy.

So… Hotline Miami 3D?

lets go

The whole game has quality written all over it, but that skybox is gorgeous! Just had to mention it.

So before we had a resurgence of 2d platformers. Now we are getting boomer shooters

"If you dont want spoilers, go to here!" *Proceeds to buy the game, plays it in its entirety, and comes back to the video* Me: "Spoilers? What spoilers?"

Oi what about prodeus

love u pak :)

The creator of Cultic said on X that his influence was Resident Evil 4 and (for some reasons) Dark Forces 2. Protagonists` jacket and pistol, monsters, achievement names and other - all references to RE4. Why someone thinking of Blood? It has different tone and story and atmosphere then Cultic.

What do you mean Blood 3 ? There was no Blood 2. No, you're wrong, there wasn't... There wasn't...

you don't need to finish your dead space 3 review.....i never bothered to finish the game

Nothing beats doom, that’s all I’m saying

But the first FPS games were made by Gen X......Who came up with "boomer shooter"?

Brilliant game. I'm just confused how it requires a modern multicore CPU and 3GB Vram to run ... I mean lets be real the graphics are very simple.. 2D sprites, voxels and low poly everything else. What gives?

i quite like blood, and i enjoy this game but i feel the design of the actual gameplay hinders it’s boomer shooter capability. with the addition of enemies that shoot raycasts from a far range, reloading, cover, (and atleast for me lower ammo), it creates a much slower pace than the majority of boomer shooters

That very limited colour palette / dithering is atrocious, the direct comparisons to blood in this video make it obvious. He may have gone a little overkill in trying to give it a "retro" look. Is that an adjustable setting in the game, or is it stuck like that?

Your impression about rural America is correct. Joking aside, living there does NOT, in fact, suck.

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