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Impaler Gold is a fast-paced minimalistic arena shooter - now expanded and improved. Summon spikes to slay monsters, build barriers, and propel yourself into the air. Challenge yourself in this highly replayable rogue-lite shooter inspired by the classics.

Impaler Gold is a action roguelike, 1990's and boomer shooter game developed by Apptivus and published by Retrovibe.
Released on December 06th 2022 is available only on Windows in 21 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Russian, Italian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

It has received 547 reviews of which 505 were positive and 42 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Impaler Gold into these genres:

Action Roguelike 1990's Boomer Shooter Arena Shooter FPS Rogue-lite Retro Dark Fantasy Bullet Hell Action Short Singleplayer Score Attack Shooter Minimalist Rogue-like 3D Demons Supernatural Bullet Time

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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 (64 bit)
  • Processor: Intel Pentium Dual-Core G3220
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics (Haswell)
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: Integrated or dedicated compatible soundcard

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Feb. 2025
Very well made arena shooter, beautiful graphics, pleasant and interesting gameplay, cool effects from shots and killing opponents, mechanics of summoning spikes, very simple and intuitive to use, interesting opponents and vertical gameplay, sold at a very low price, I recommend trying to play.
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Jan. 2025
short review Yup, it's not a masterpiece nor the best of games, it becomes repetitive after a while (both in upgrades and enemies)... but still, it is not a bad game. Actually, the fact that is barebones helps the gameplay shine even more, and the gameplay is quite engaging! offering a good pace and some versatility between the gun and the spikes. So, even If I am not the most enthusiastic fan of this game (or the genre of roguelike shooters, but I still like playing them), and was about to give it the thumbs down,... still, on second though, the game still managed (in the abysmal time I've played it) to give me short (and advice you not to play for long session) burst of mild adrenaline and small, packed amount of fun time! Not much, but enough!
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Nov. 2024
Some of the best movement I've seen so far and the gunplay feels really good too. The ui makes it look a bit unfinished tho.
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Sept. 2024
I came here expecting yet another boomer shooter, and instead I got... uh... he-man rocket jump bonanza arena roguelike? By the power of numbskull of whatever. No, really, the final boss is a giant skull. Impaler uses the boomer shooter genre as a starting point and then just kinda flies off the handle and does its own thing. So if you're looking for a simple doomy boomer shooter (why is it not called doomer shooter smh), this is not it - and you can see in some negative reviews that people generally expect it to be; you won't have much fun here if you do. So what is it then? In boomer shooters, you use your weapons to fight. Here you have three main ways of laying waste to your enemies, and to get anywhere you have to use all 3 of them in tandem. Your chosen weapon (there's 8, but you can use only one for the run), your impaler spikes, and smashing into the ground from above. Out of these, the third one is the trickiest but also the most satisfying one; but let's talk about the first two for a sec. There is no ammo. Instead, your weapon overheats after just a few shots, and it doesn't do that much damage anyway (without upgrades, that is) - but it's reliable, and even the short range weapons have decent reach. Then there's the spikes. They're a bit harder to use, and they also overheat if you spam them - and obviously, they come from the ground, so hitting a flying enemy with one isn't easy; but they're pretty satisfying to use, and perhaps most importantly, enemies killed with spikes drop health pickups! Lemme smash But the most important use for the spikes is essentially rocket jumping. You fire a spike under yourself - you do not take damage from that - and if you time your jump right, you'll be launched high into the air. You also have a double jump and there's a wall jump of sorts. So there's plenty of options for gaining high, uh, ground. From there, once you've gained enough vertical speed, hitting the ground will cause massive damage to whatever enemy you land on, plus you'll scatter a bunch of shrapnel-like stakes in front of you. This is your most powerful attack, and the preferred way of dealing with groups of enemies - especially since it also yields health pickups! Don't get too comfy So you'd think that you can just spike jump your way through the game? No. There are several types of enemies, and every single one is strong against a particular playstyle, and this is why you need to constantly adapt and switch things around. That's also where the upgrades come into play, and you'll need them - the enemies will keep getting stronger. Among other things. I won't get too much into this here, but the game rewards mobility and skillful play through the system of offerings. Ways to earn extra gold and health, basically. This adds another layer to your battle strategy, as you'll constantly want to be on the lookout for these offerings and adjust your next move accordingly. Very satisfying, once you get the hang of things. There's more? Once you're done with the campaign, so the main roguelike mode, there's also a collectathon mode and harder difficulties, if you're hungry for more impaling. I thought I'm done with the game once I beat the final boss... but to be honest, I'll probably go back to it at some point. It's very stimulating. Look. It's cheap. It's fun. It's different than most things out there. What else could you want. Anime girls? Alright, you got me there... [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42922988/]Curator page
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Sept. 2024
I love the game its really fun but i would really love if there was a mod or an option to replace/disable the bees
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Impaler Gold is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

Impaler Gold is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.

Impaler Gold received 505 positive votes out of a total of 547 achieving a rating of 8.60.
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Impaler Gold was developed by Apptivus and published by Retrovibe.

Impaler Gold is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Impaler Gold is not playable on MacOS.

Impaler Gold is not playable on Linux.

Impaler Gold is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Impaler Gold. Explore additional content available for Impaler Gold on Steam.

Impaler Gold does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Impaler Gold does not support Steam Remote Play.

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Impaler Gold
4.99€
8.6
505
42
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Developer
Apptivus
Publisher
Retrovibe
Release 06 Dec 2022
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