Hammer of Virtue Review (Steam)

For our Hammer of Virtue Review, where we play a hammer-smashing action game with fully destructible environments. use your hammer for combat or smash the environment to launch debris toward your enemy to create emergent and chaotic gameplay interactions in a wild adventure.

Hammer of Virtue Review Pros:

  • Nice graphics.
  • 6.81GB download size.
  • Steam achievements.
  • Controller support.
  • 3 save slots.
  • Controls settings – rebind controls for both keyboard and the controller buttons, each player has a set of bindings.
  • Graphics settings – resolution and fullscreen.
  • Two-player local support.
  • Art-based cutscenes and interactions.
  • Full voice work of characters and narration.
  • Two music styles – metal and classic.
  • The goal of the game is to clear out and eliminate all enemies.
  • The enemies are animals with armor and bad ass weapons like swords and claws.
  • Fully destructible world.
  • Has a huge reliance on physics.
  • Enemies and even your character ragdoll around the place and can be hit by buildings that knock them down.
  • A weird game indeed.
  • Quick loading times.
  • Unlock training modes.
  • All levels can be replayed.
  • Full stats screen.
  • Unlock the next level by beating the current one.
  • So satisfying to smash up the world and take out the enemy.
  • Each face button is a different type of attack.

Hammer of Virtue Review Cons:

  • It’s not all controllers, especially the menus.
  • A lot of pop up.
  • Does a poor job of explaining things.
  • No tutorials.
  • The controls are not great, I couldn’t get lock on or block to work at all with a controller.
  • The levels are empty.
  • Nothing in the world feels weighty.
  • Huge difficulty spikes.
  • Getting health back is not an exact science.

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Hammer of Virtue:

Official website.

Developer: No Pest Productions

Publisher: No Pest Productions

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Steam

  • 7/10
    Graphics - 7/10
  • 7/10
    Sound - 7/10
  • 7/10
    Accessibility - 7/10
  • 7/10
    Length - 7/10
  • 8/10
    Fun Factor - 8/10
7.2/10

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!