- Racing, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Gripper is a story-driven action game with boss fights on wheels. Tear your enemies apart with a grappling hook. Rip out their metal hearts to gain abilities. Rescue your family and uncover the secrets of the collapsing world.
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Contemporary, grave, unpretentious and earnest.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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FingerGunsGreg HicksMar 20238/10Whilst occassionally suffering from the “being unfair doesn’t make it a challenge” issue, Gripper is nonetheless a fun ride. A gripping take on the boss rush style of game, pair this with a controller and headphones for a throttlin’ good time.
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Try Hard GuidesErik HodgesApr 20238/10Gripper is a fun, engaging, gritty little game that’ll have you wishing you could Akira slide in real life. While the game will come and go fast, you’ll appreciate the experience for what it is, and it certainly won’t overstay its welcome.
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ImpulsegamerBen VeressApr 20233.2/5Overall I think Gripper is a fairly fun and unique game, however, my main drawback is its price. For $29.50 AUD, I don't believe the game is providing that much value for its asking price, given that you can beat the game in only an hour or two. Sure you can farm old bosses, but you'd have to really be in love with the game to fight the same boss over and over again, and unfortunately, I wasn't.
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GameLusterNairon Santos de MoraisMar 20233/10Gripper sounds like a cool concept, but its execution leaves much to be desired. It simply makes too many bad decisions in game design to be a fun experience, instead it's primarily a frustrating one.
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Nintendo LifeLowell BellMar 20235/10With a slick aesthetic, some great synthwave tunes, and intense cybercycling through dilapidated space tubes, Gripper gets a lot right and we enjoyed those parts of it. We can forgive repetitive voice acting, but the other half of the game - the arena boss battles - is egregiously frustrating. The main gripping mechanic fails to work far too often with so much happening on screen, leading to a difficulty level that requires grudging patience rather than player skill. Thus, by the end of the game, our patience for this sci-fi mashup of genres had run out.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Heart Core
- Publisher
- Heart Core
- Released
- March 29, 2023
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Third person, Bird view / Isometric
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
IGDB rating 6.4/10 from 1 ratings.
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