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Zortch

Meet Zortch Maxinum: short order cook, amateur engineer and professional slacker; Bored and tired of her day job she decides to go on a holiday but alas she picks a cheap option: turns out it's a scheme by aliens who capture humans to eat their brains! also this game is a sci-fi horror comedy fps

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June 8, 2023
3 years and 145 days ago
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About the Game

Zortch is a single player FPS game in a sci-fi setting with horror and comedy elements

Zortch Maxinum is a professional slacker who finds herself captured by aliens after falling
for their fake holiday scheme - now she must escape their planet or become a light snack
lucky for her there is a mysterious voice helping her along the way

Features:
  • Custom engine that runs well on low-spec machines
  • Combat heavy gameplay
  • 6 difficulty modes - from very easy to extreme
  • 9 guns + kicking (grenade launcher, tnt, tripmine, plasma pistol, a double barreled shotgun and a bizarre living lightning gun)
  • 15 levels
  • 5 boss levels
  • 30+ enemy types (giant green brainsucking aliens and their inventions and cronies: spider mines, lizards with rocket launchers, raptors, pudding like amoeboid pretending to be humanoid guards, and a giant 20 feet tall flatworm cyborg bounty hunter .. among others)
  • powerups: portable medkit, invisibility
  • FOV slider
  • Letterbox mode
  • Custom violence mode: you can change blood to be confetti or ketchup
  • Feeble attempts at humor

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