GlitchPunk Preview (Steam Early Access)

by Jim Smale · August 12, 2021

Inspired by classic top-down action games, This Glitchpunk Preview shows us how you can brawl, shoot and drive your way through a dystopian future. As an android bounty hunter in a brutal world of gangs, cults and corporations there’s plenty of work for you. Lock and load, let her rip!

GlitchPunk Preview Pros:

Nice graphics.
15.27GB Download size.
Steam achievements.
Steam trading cards.
Partial controller support.
Graphics – full screen, resolution, resolution scale slider, anti-aliasing, post-processing, shadow quality, texture quality, fog, bloom, pixelated effect, camera shake, and brightness.
Four chapters – Outpost Texas, New Baltia, Moscow, and Neo Tokyo.
Male or female character choice.
Cool soundtrack.
Top-down view.
Inspired by the original Grand Theft Auto games.
Arrows show missions and points of interest.
Tutorial pop-ups.
Four radio stations.
The hacking mode will allow you to alter and change things around you from people to vehicles to machines.
Steal any car you want when you want.
Feels like a living breathing world.
Districts of the maps have their own gangs complete with their own stories and missions to take on.
Plays best with a keyboard at the moment.
Police will give chase if you break the law and it triggers a wanted level that rises if you carry on breaking the law.
Upon death, you lose everything you had on you.

GlitchPunk Preview Cons:

Only the New Baltia chapter is available at the moment.
No controller settings.
The controller doesn’t work in menus properly.
Long loading times.
Several cases of the game locking up or not booting correctly.
Driving is all done on the left stick and is a nightmare due to being loose and too sensitive.
Button prompts are keyboard only.
No voicework.
Not all the controls are on the controller.
Bad performance.
Missions don’t seem to show up when going to phone booths.
A very dark game despite a brightness slider.
A lot of blurry out-of-focus-looking images and buildings.
Cold open with little in the way of guidance.
Even with a keyboard, the controls are rough with you having to use the mouse to aim your attacks so it’s a mix of both and it’s clumsy and awkward.