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Teeth-clenching stealth, followed by tactical hardcore gunplay for those not looking for a quiet way in. Intravenous redefines challenging stealth-action and will keep you on the edge of your seat!
Intravenous is a stealth, tactical and difficult game
developed by Explosive Squat Games
and published by HypeTrain Digital.
Released on July 26th 2021 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, Russian, Spanish - Spain, German, Turkish, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Brazil and Korean.
It has received 4,813 reviews of which 4,337 were positive and 476 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 0.96€ on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified Intravenous into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10, 64-bit
- Processor: Athlon II X2 270 or equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB VRAM, Intel HD 5500 Graphics or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 654 MB available space
- Additional Notes: 1280x720 Normal settings, 60+ FPS
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Hotline Miami like although more about stealth and with less surrealness. Worth every penny if on sale, can't wait to try the second game!
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Intravenous is callback to old school stealth game, despite being made by small team the game mechanics are well crafted and surprisingly impressive from sound design, lighting and AI everything in this game is peak quality. A good example is the lighting system. If you destroy lights, it will start flickering. When I first did this, I thought, "The game is probably too basic to make enemies react to flickering lights." However, it turns out the enemy spotted me under the flickering light, and I got shot. not just that , the path finding in this game is so good and enemy AI can flank you in multiple position which is rare to see in AAA games. The game play can be approached purely through stealth (either lethally or non-lethally) or by going in guns blazing both approaches are difficult and challenging and what i love about this game is that you can go panic mode when your stealth run failed. story wise is meh not the worst nor the best. however i have something i would like to address if the dev is planning to make Intravenous 3 or something similar : 1-More ambient music 2-better writing and voice acting 3-Mini map 4-diverse environments 5- better title because the word "Intravenous" dose not say anything about the game finally, i have my messages to the dev , keep the good work i cannot wait to play your next game.
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Exceedingly fun arcade stealth shooter. It's clearly inspired by the greats and playing it was like if Hotline Miami and Splinter Cell didn't have a baby, but instead found a child on the street, amped it up on heroin, and made it watch DARE PSA's until it went insane. Or at least that's sort of how the story was. If the intro didn't make it evident, this game is NOT for children, so fair warning as this game is graphic. It has all the hallmarks of a good stealth game, and some of the inevitable peeves that come with it. NVG, sound systems, AI sharing information, differing levels of AI 'experience', penalties for getting caught, getting out of getting caught, a driving cast of characters for you to kill (Or not? You'll see). Shooting out lights, differing types of melee kills, carrying bodies, trailing blood from dead bodies, TACTICOOL AI. All nicely bow-wrapped with an arsenal of weapons and equipment to blare the octane-fueled backing tracks over. If you like stealth, if you like gunfighting, this game's for you. It's got a good amount of both but there's always a way to take either approach if you're clever enough. OK short list of bad stuff that I will elongate for my personal journaling portion. AI callouts are a bit too generic, would have liked to see more situation or mission-specific ones. Doors have returned as the stealth-game players greatest enemy once more, sometimes even catching the AI, who actually yell obscenities if they can't get the door open right, usually to just straight clip through it. This makes melee'ing enemies going through doors at the least awkward and at most deadly. The AI can door kick too! So if the door doesn't open they will try that which will instant-kill you. Sometimes AI can track you based on sound a little too aggressively, not moving towards your last location, but your current, then blasting you immediately once they reach visual range. There are some *major* bugs with the save system, causing AI states, locations, and individual behaviors to not reset properly, though this does not occur every save. The achievements were tedious, requiring four clears of the game minimum. While I did enjoy the challenge of Masochist on my first playthrough, and True difficulty lived up to the name, playing through on Normal for achievements and then again on easy for the achievement tied exclusively to that version (where achievements are not earnable) was a bit of a slog. Making only three difficulties with Easy and Normal being merged would probably be best, and allowing mutators to further define the experience would definitely be the best possible scenario. One last part, since we're talking about player expression. I haven't engaged with this part of the game, but the mod integration looks great. Very simply implemented, has external hooks, all the bells and whistles. Additionally, there's a stage creator, and it lets your write your own scene dialogue and cutscenes! Which is crazy to see, really awesome stuff. Might reinstall when I get a hankering and add something to the Workshop for fun, but for now I've played something like 20 hours of this game in about a week. So a bit burnt out. Definitely recommend if you like the genres!
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it's alright. cool stealth mechanics, but the maps are kind of bland with few difficulty increases aside from the amount of GOONERs. the story and OST are nothing fancy either. and even if it's realistic, the enemy alert level never really dies down, so they'll be camping the same spot for minutes because they saw you. i recommend playing this game as a stealthy hotline miami and not like a traditional splinter cell type experience. if you try to go in, killing the least amount of people, you don't get the same feeling of fast paced improvisation you have to do on the spot to survive the onslaught of patrols the game throws at you. edit: of fucking course the game is free a week after i buy it ffs
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Intravenous is my favorite stealth-action game. Its a short but fun and charming game of very high quality, in a time where there are very few good & remarkable stealth games coming out. I think it does a really good job for all playstyles : Ghosting, stealth killing and combat are all very good, which is different from most other such games : Usually the combat in stealth games is pretty terrible, or maybe stealth kills/knockouts just trivialize everything. This one does a great job of making all three coexist. Playing mostly ghost and non-lethal is fun because this is a genuinely very good stealth game. It does an excellent job with light-and-dark and sound mechanics, theres a lot of cool things you can do for distractions. Stealth is also a pretty major part of the combat, too : Constantly weaving in and out of the line of sight of the enemies, staying in the dark so its harder for enemies to shoot you down, etc. Combat is very deadly for both sides if youre playing on the "True" difficulty, it can be very exciting and satisfying. A lot of people would say it feels similar to Hotline Miami, which is pretty positive. The AI is mostly very well made and very fun : They respond to things very well, they will try to stick together when theyre aware youre going around killing everybody, and so on. Early game enemies are slower and innacurate, but as you progress more, they become sharper, being far faster at shooting you down The arsenal is cool : gadgets are neat, everything factors into how much noise you make, you can select three different types of armor (or none), the equipment you have holstered increases your noise when moving around. You have two choices for suppressed pistols : The normal one which is a potent firearm but makes quite a lot of noise, far more than your typical videogame silenced pistol.. Or a weapon made for shooting animals, that is much weaker and slower, but quieter and capable of taking down people too. Its full of great interactions and mechanics. Bashing doors into enemies, using your own microphone to make noise and bait in enemies, getting killed by the shrapnel of your own explosion, enemies getting disoriented and accidentally firing at their friends after you flashbang them, enemies trying to run away from a grenade and getting blocked by their friends right behind them, enemies rushing to the other side after they see you get inside a ventilation shaft... The game is also aesthetically awesome : The soundtrack is fantastic, the atmosphere of the levels is great and the NPC chatter during stealth is pretty entertaining, there are descriptions for every weapon and caliber, a lot of the UI looks awesome, and so on. Theres a lot of cool gameplay related things like the choice between the two silenced pistols, how everything plays into your noise, and the general behavior of the AI that adds to it. The story is more divisive : Its a pretty basic and quite edgy, its not really trying to be a coherent proper nuanced plot, its just a plain entertaining revenge story. Its admitedly its a bit cringy, and i get why some people dislike it, but i think it was pretty entertaining, and it matched the gameplay really well. Its just fun. Genuinely very great game, i would recommend this to anyone that likes stealth games overall, and im very interested in the sequel. There are a few things that i wish were better about this game, such as the low enemy variety, the lack of variety in terms of objectives, and how enemies are often innefective at combating the player camping in a spot with only one entrance. I also feel like enemy footsteps can be too hard to hear when they are sprinting in combat, in part because of the soundtrack, which can make it pretty easy to get caught off guard. But overall, theres nothing very bad, and its consistently very fun, and i heard that the sequel will improve upon some of these aspects, like adding more forms of primary objectives & side objectives. My personal recommendations for playing the game : - Play on 'True' difficulty for your first playthrough.. The highest difficulty is not good, its actually easier and gets in the way of a lot of cool features. - Enable "Tactical reloads" in the settings. - Disable the light cone : its as if you had a flashlight attached to your face, in a game about hiding in the shdaows, which imo is quite ugly and makes it hard to see what places are considered dark. But that may make it harder to see in the first few levels before you get NVGs.
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Intravenous is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.
Intravenous is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.
Intravenous received 4,337 positive votes out of a total of 4,813 achieving a rating of 8.70.
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Intravenous was developed by Explosive Squat Games and published by HypeTrain Digital.
Intravenous is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Intravenous is not playable on MacOS.
Intravenous is not playable on Linux.
Intravenous is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Intravenous. Explore additional content available for Intravenous on Steam.
Intravenous is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
Intravenous does not support Steam Remote Play.
Intravenous is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Explosive Squat Games
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HypeTrain Digital
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26 Jul 2021
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