When you awaken in OTXO, there’s no name, no past, just purpose. She’s in there, somewhere. And so is everything trying to stop you. This brutally stylish roguelite delivers relentless top-down shooter action inside a surreal, shadow-drenched mansion where every room is a handcrafted slice of chaos. As you push deeper through the randomised layout, each blast and slow-mo pirouette becomes a pulse-pounding answer to the mystery at hand. If noir and neon had a fever dream baby fueled by Focus, OTXO would be it. Let’s step inside.

OTXO Review Pros

• Decent graphics. 
• 203.61MB download size. 
• Steam achievements. 
• Full controller support. 
• You can remap the controls for the controller and the mouse, and the keyboard. 
• Mouse and keyboard support. 
• Graphics settings – hit markers, Crosshair size, Crosshair visibility, and v-sync. 
• Accessibility options – screenshake amount slider, flashing lights toggle, music showdown during focus, toggle focus, enemy amount for arrows to appear, show gameplay tips screen, use desktop mouse, and game mouse speed. 
• Top-down shooter gameplay. 
• Tutorial pop-ups appear as you play after an initial opening tutorial level. 
• You get huge button prompts on interactive elements and people you meet. 
• Twin stick shooter controls. 
• In game cutscenes and character interactions, you can fast scroll through the interactions. 
• The game moves at a very fast pace. 
• Hotline Miami is heavily influenced by graphics in combat and movement. 
• I love the colour palette of black and white surroundings with injections of red for the blood. 
• Focus is where you can zoom in a bit more to the screen, making shots easier to aim, and it slows it all down, and you can roll and avoid enemy bullets more easily. 
• The combo counter is important as it’s not just consecutive kills that build it, it’s also the way in which you kill people; the higher the combo, the more coins you make. 
• The sound effects are really cool, the shots hitting sound meaty and satisfying or the gun making a noise when it runs out of bullets. 
• You have a roll button anyway. 
• The game uses the mag gimmick, where when you reload, it replaces all ammo, meaning if you shoot once, then reload, you waste a handful of bullets. 
• You can throw weapons, whether they have ammo or not, and you can always pick them back up. 
• The locations are split up into smaller sections, and you get health back in between each one. 
• For me, the game felt more like a puzzle game in places as you work out the best routes to take and when to use focus, etc. 
• Get used to picking up guns a lot, as it’s always faster than reloading, plus it looks badass. 
• Many different gun types, from snipers to assault rifles and shotguns. 
• I live that you can kill enemies by just kicking the door open when they are near it 
• The music is very upbeat, and the bass is like a pulse that drives you to kill all people.
• Focus goes down as you use it and regens slowly when not using it, and you can trigger and stop it at will. A circular gauge comes up to show it going up and down. 
• It’s a difficult game and gets very reflex-heavy very quickly, so bear that in mind. 
• End of run breakdown showing off cool stars like bullets fired, kills, rooms cleared, doors kicked, and preferred gun. 
• The game is run-based, and every run plays differently. 
• You have a foyer where you can and will interact with other characters, and you always come here before a run begins. 
• New runs always restart on the beach. 

OTXO Review Cons

• Minimal graphic options. 
• You could argue the button prompts are way too big, but each to their own. 
• I messed up in the tutorials, and there wasn’t a way to restart or anything, so I just had to start a whole new game. It happened at weird times. 
• It will take a bit of tweaking to get the aiming right, and this is down to the sensitivity more than anything. 
• The mouse cursor stays on screen even when using the controller. 
• There is no way to skip the tutorial. 
• You cannot turn off or tone down the blood at all. 
• Takes a bit of getting used to the speed and the aiming, etc. 

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OTXO

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Developer: Lateralis Heavy Industries

Publisher: Super Rare Originals

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Steam