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Armor fix

Armor and speed booster damage penalties should now actually work. If you've been using armor it has probably been pointless until now.

Small patch

  • Fixed the infinite jump glitch.
  • ???

Minor update

Added a new hidden implant somewhere. Nothing huge just felt like adding something.

Cruelty Squad review: this game is too cool for me, probably



Cruelty Squad didn't click with me, not because of its grinning antagonism or brain grating lofi, but because I didn’t find it all that interesting. I’m sort of rooting for it, still, thumbing its leprous nose-cavity at inexplicable Steam bestsellers that won’t be out for six months.


Still, I signed up to have awful soup, made from Clippy’s wire entrails and melted immersive sim floppy disks, spooned on my eyeballs. What I got was a reasonably tense shooter with some extensively labyrinthine level design and, to be fair, a very good shotgun.


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Cruelty Squad is an FPS "set in a sewage infused garbage world"

Cruelty Squad has the aesthetic of early to mid '90s first-person shooters. No, not Doom and Quake. I'm talking about the trash you don't remember. The hyper-violence, the purple lighting, the repeating textures, the art assets rendered at wildly variable resolutions, the faintly cyberpunk themes.


It's out now on Steam and there's a sensorally aggressive trailer below.


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