City of Brass Reviews
Pick yourself back up, wipe off that sand, and crack that whip. You won’t regret it.
City of Brass starts off strong, with innovative mechanics and an impeccable presentation that continues to impress. As long as you're not expecting an endless adventure, this first-person roguelike is well worth playing.
Using the scimitar and the versatile whip, roaming through the levels with free gameplay approach and play everytime different levels is a real pleasure. With an elaborated story and a higher budget, City of Brass could've been a even better game.
Review in Italian | Read full review
With City of Brass there's a feeling you're playing a home port of an arcade game, where short spurts of action, strategy, and fun doesn't translate to a sit-down to play for an extended length of time videogame. It looks fantastic but there's not a lot below the surface.
This game is a strong contender for my favourite game in 2018 to date.
I can't help but feel disappointed in City of Brass.
City of brass is a Rouge-like َgame with some pretty exciting aspects that promise a good and fun game, but does it deliver that promise? City of brass has very fun gamepley elements and you can use a whip and multiple weapons with different attributes and bonuses in combat, solving environment puzzles or interacting with traps and Enemies that made so many choices for us to progress in the game. Also, City of brass is a gorgeous looking game with good details and unique art style. So the answer to the question is “YES”. Although the game suffers from problems like the mostly lack of music, some graphical pup-ups and technical issues that could hurt your experience of the game. Anyway, we must say that City of brass is a beautiful game that absolutely worth your time.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Well executed rogue-like elements and the art style works to a certain extent but City of Brass feels like a game that needs a deep discount before diving in.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Even if the notion of permadeath is anathema to you, it's well worth stepping through City of Brass' gates.
City of Brass is a good looking and solid roguelite first-person adventure on PlayStation 4. While there isn't much story-telling or narrative in the game, other than the story setup you get during the tutorial from what is shared with you by the spirits of those who died exploring the cursed city, the game more than makes up for it with its gameplay mechanics in a very fun indie release from an experienced team.
Good-looking and accessible addition to rogue-lite genre, but with clumsy controls, repetitive gameplay and no sense of progress.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
City of Brass is a beautiful, highly-polished and mostly successful attempt at turning the genre on its head by making it more accessible to everyone, from rogue-lite veterans to first time players. With a unique and intuitive new combat style and some innovative takes on genre conventions, you'll find plenty to like about City of Brass no matter what your skill level.
Provided you keep expectations in check, City of Brass can be fun. The game is set up well for those starting out with roguelikes, and the various tweaks ensure that everyone has a chance to see the ending. For the hardcore, it can also be tweaked to be tougher, and that'll be necessary if you want any kind of challenge. This doesn't feel like a long-lasting experience, but the presence of leaderboards will be an incentive to those who might want to speed-run through the game. If you don't mind a few of the aforementioned flaws, then give this title a chance.
City of Brass brings some interesting features to the dungeon-crawling genre, but its overly generic style and atmosphere don't break any new ground. It's a game that can be picked up and put down easily, which would make it a good candidate for a Nintendo Switch port. City of Brass' qualities are unfortunately marred by its lack of personality and other technical blunders.
In the end, making it through the City of Brass is much more enjoyable and gratifying than it is frustrating.
While repetitive in nature and presentation, City of Brass is still a fun, unique strategy-action game that provides plenty of key moments.
City Of Brass is a satisfying first person rogue-lite adventure that brings a few neat ideas of its own to the table.
Since I have played other FPS games like Destiny and Far Cry. I can't help but long for the fast-paced action these two gave me. But since it is a mortal sin to do so and the game has a charm of its own that sets it apart from other first-person shooter games I've come across, I'll leave my piece with this game as independently as possible.
“It’s hard to recommend a game like this when its gameplay seems to fall smack bang in the middle of no man’s land. It’s not that it’s a bad game or that it fails to do what it says on the box, it’s that it just doesn’t make you feel one way or the other, quite possibly one to keep an eye out for when the sales are on.”
City of Brass is a really well put together experience that's always fresh no matter how many times you enter the gauntlet.