Hellbound Reviews

Hellbound is ranked in the 20th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
6 / 10.0
Aug 11, 2020

Saibot Studios clearly has a fair amount of talent and passion, they just need more experience and a greater budget to expand upon what Hellbound offers. Hopefully, the developers are able to keep at it and deliver a truly unforgettable game sometime later on.

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6 / 10.0
Aug 4, 2020

There’s a good few hours of fun to get from Hellbound‘s campaign. Maybe even more if you’re the type that wants to discover every secret and beat every par time.

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Aug 21, 2020

Serviceable if not a little unremarkable. Really aimed for people who’ve exhausted the genre.

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5.5 / 10.0
Aug 11, 2020

The fact is, Hellbound is too loyal to 90s shooter games. The game has nothing eye-glazing new compared to classic games. Only big fans of DOOM series might tolerate this game.

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TheSixthAxis
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5 / 10
Aug 4, 2020

Hellbound has potential, and will surely find an audience for both its nostalgia and its challenge.

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5 / 10
Aug 4, 2020

Hellbound has really good movement and the texture quality looks nice, but it's insanely short, the level design is mediocre, and there's nothing here that FPS fans haven't seen done better for decades.

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5 / 10
Aug 4, 2020

An earnest but empty love letter to Quake and Duke Nukem 3D that never gets around to doing anything to call its own.

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2.5 / 5.0
Aug 4, 2020

Hellbound is more imitation than inspiration. Lacking in originality and flair with merely passable gameplay, it makes us wonder why we shouldn’t just play Doom.

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5 / 10.0
Sep 2, 2020

Hellbound attempts a return to the classic and beloved twitch shooters of the 90's, but falls flat in too many ways to earn a recommendation.

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Aug 4, 2020

Hellbound is a retro FPS with some neat ideas that suffers from lacking execution and a lack of content.

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Aug 7, 2020

Hellbound isn’t a bad game. It can still be enjoyed, so long as you get it on a steep sale and you’ve got a spare afternoon for some mindless killing. This is a first-person shooter that emulates the past, but fails to recapture the magic of it. When you just turn your brain off, the game is at its best, but it just doesn’t last long. With a woefully short campaign mode, and a repetitive wave-based survival mode, Hellbound is surprisingly… deficient.

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4 / 10.0
Aug 6, 2020

In the 90’s the term “DOOM Clone” was given to First Person Shooters following the runaway success of iD’s Demon Slaying Magnum Opus. It wasn’t always used negatively though as this era saw many great titles including Heretic, Blood and of course Duke Nukem 3D. Hellbound however is a DOOM Clone in the sense they actually tried to clone the game but something was contaminated in the test tube.

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