City of Brass Reviews
City of Brass is a fairly standard rogue-lite that distinguishes itself with its setting, visual stylings, and fun-as-hell whip.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
Even if the notion of permadeath is anathema to you, it's well worth stepping through City of Brass' gates.
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
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
I can't help but feel disappointed in City of Brass.
This game is a strong contender for my favourite game in 2018 to date.
In the end, making it through the City of Brass is much more enjoyable and gratifying than it is frustrating.
I have no doubt that City of Brass won’t provide an experience everyone will love, but then again that’s not a shock when games try new things...
In conclusion, City of Brass is a decent game IF you like first-person dungeon crawlers with no turn-based action. While I was enchanted in the beginning, after 5-10 hours, I was sadly disillusioned. This is one city that should’ve lost, like Atlantis kind-of lost.
Fun first-person action rogue-lite with fun mechanics
City of Brass takes us to a lost city in the desert, where our thief will have to explore 12 levels against the clock while fighting with a host of nightmare enemies and avoid many traps, to be able to seize the wonderful treasurers and riches that the City hides. The first person action of this roguelike with procedural generation levels, will offer us a high challenge, although perhaps it ends up being too strict and this makes the game can be repetitive and demoralizing if this style of play is not for us.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
While there is something to be said about the game’s combat and Arabian setting, the frustrating amount of traps and repetitive gameplay makes City of Brass hard to play, and the lack of upgrades makes it hard to come back.