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- Seen Nov 1, 2023
https://store.steampowered.com/app/322500/
SUPERHOT is the first person shooter where time moves only when you move. With its unique, stylized graphics SUPERHOT finally adds something new and disruptive to the FPS genre. SUPERHOT's polished, minimalist visual language helps you concentrate on the most important - on the fluidity of gameplay and cinematic beauty of the fight.
See the bullets crawling towards you as you carefully plan your steps and aim your gun. Enjoy the mayhem that is unleashed as you put that plan into motion. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's just you, outnumbered and outgunned, grabbing the weapons of fallen enemies to shoot, slice, and maneuver through a hurricane of slow-motion bullets.
It's pretty rare, these days, that you see FPS play with gameplay ideas. Oftentimes what'll happen is that a new idea will come around once in a blew moon and then others will latch onto it (see Titanfall's Movement System or Gears of War's Cover system). But it's rare. Even rare is an FPS that completely goes off-the-rails to be its own thing without forsaking the genre. That is SUPERHOT.
As the title says, it's a game that only moves when you do. This leads to some interesting things happening, such as being able to shoot bullets out of the air, dodging bullets Matrix-style, and blocking bullets by using the various items in the environment around you. It is, in every sense, a spectacle shooter where using your imagination and awareness will generally leave you feeling more rewarded after the fact.
It's a lot of fun. And the internet was quite loud about it after release.
If you're interested, they have the prototype that was put up for 7 Day FPS, an independent developer competition back in its days of inception and, I suppose, conception.
https://superhotgame.com/play-prototype/