Warden’s Will Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · January 14, 2025

Warden’s Will Review, Warden’s Will is a fast-paced movement shooter roguelite, playable solo or in up-to 3-player co-op. Choose your Warden, master unique movements and abilities, and overpower hordes of robots in intense battles. Fly, dash, smash, and turn bullet-hell into bullet-heaven! The multiverse is trapped in a relentless time loop, and only a Warden can break it. The Warden’s Will is not to just survive, the Warden’s Will is to dominate! Brace for chaos. Unleash destruction. Dominate the corruption.

Warden’s Will Review Pros:

Awesome cel-shaded graphics.
1.25GB download size.
Steam achievements.
Controller support.
Graphics settings – window mode, resolution, UI scale, auto set quality, quality presets, anti-aliasing, shading quality, textures, View distance, textures, effects, post-processing, v-sync, frame rate limit for on battery, menu, background, and overall.
Colorblind support.
Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, remap controls, enable auto-aim camera, camera stickiness, and deadzone sliders.
Opening amazing Saturday morning cartoon-style intro.
Two ways to play – online and offline.
Action shooter roguelike gameplay.
Tutorial pop-ups in places when needed.
Third-person perspective.
A fully 3D game world with 360-degree camera control.
The opening area is an empty sandbox with a load of items, weapons, etc so you can mess around and try out everything.
You play as a warden and there are many warden choices each offering unique movement and combat skills.
Every weapon has two types of attacks.
The game moves at a smooth fast pace.
I love the art style and movement of the characters and even the game world.
A multiplayer beacon for sending and joining invites.
The game has you needing to find three transmitters and uploading data to them to find the breach which allows you to move on.
When at a transmitter you have to fight off and take out enemies to acquire data.
Crystals – shoot them to gain a timed buff with blue giving shields, green restoring health, red increasing damage, and yellow giving max energy for a time.
Find and open chests.
Damage numbers pop off as you hit enemies.
Massive open areas to explore.
Abilities are attached to a button and have cooldowns, luckily the hid is easy to read and minimal.
All firing weapons use energy and will need a car as holding the fire button down will cause them to overheat and jam for a short time.
An end-of-run breakdown showing kills, damage taken, time, enemies killed, etc.
Every run is randomized from the locations to the enemies and objectives placement.
Bright vibrant colors everywhere.
Earn unique currency to permanently unlock new weapons, augment, abilities, and wardens.
You can pause the game in a single-player.
The game comes alive in multiplayer.
Excellent enemy designs and attacks.
Once you get to the stage where you have the better wardens and guns the game is really good but man does it take a long time.

Warden’s Will Review Cons:

Couldn’t see any way to join or open up my lobby to random.
The music does not suit the game, it’s way too chilled and basic, from the sleepy tunes of the sandbox to the more mellow songs in the game.
The movement takes some getting used to, the dodging isn’t as smooth as you would like.
I found it to be a harrowing opening hour or so as I tried to learn the weapons, take in the world, and do well in combat.
It feels like a game that gets a lot better over time but it has a long in ramp.
Enemy density is up and down with it being low numbers and making the world feel empty with too many enemies and you can’t breathe.
The shooting doesn’t feel that good.
Had so many runs where I just didn’t feel like I got rewarded for my time.

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