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Hammerfight is about 2D battles of flying machines equipped with various slashing, piercing and blunt weaponry.A unique combat system is based on realistic physics simulation, and it ties the movements of the rider to the movements of your mouse. As you wave the mouse, your rider swings his warhammer, smashing the foe into the wall!
This creates an unequaled feel of the real strike, a feel of the mass of the weapon in your hands. Simulated physics and direct mouse control creates a huge variety of possible battle techniques and an unlimited field for perfecting one’s fighting skill.
- Intuitive mouse control
- Realistic physics, breakable objects
- Great storyline
- High quality art
- More that 50 weapons
- 3 additional modes, up to 4 players
Steam User 3
This is a game about a medieval civilization of quazi-pre-Islamic middle-eastern tribes who have based their entire society on salvaging malfunctioning automatons built as a part of an ancient interdimensional AI mainframe's attempt to repel an invasion of polymorphous non-humanoid aliens from another universe.
If this premise alone hasn't sold you on Hammerfight already, I don't know what will.
Steam User 4
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Steam User 2
Steam User 1
Hammerfight (or Highfleet 0 now that that game is out :P) is one of the most unique games you could ever play. Its skill-based physics-based combat is utterly unique. Moving your mouse moves your craft on the screen in a 1-to-1 relationship. Your melee weapon(s) are attached to your craft but swing freely. So, to swing your weapon effectively requires you to move your craft in such a way to build up the momentum of your weapon swing. And it is extremely tricky for new players to get the hang of compared to just pressing a button to attack (attack is almost an art in this game, the mouse is your brush). At first you'll be flailing about waving your weapon like a novice fencer waving his sword like an ineffectual feather duster. But, if you keep at it, with time and training you can turn into an untouchable god-like whirling dervish of destruction so that no matter how many opponents or monsters the game sends at you, you'll be able to cut through them like a hot knife through butter with no wasted movements, just solid blow after solid blow cutting them down effortlessly.
A major problem is that the game recommends too high of DPI settings. You'll want to bottom this setting out at 100 almost guaranteed regardless of your mouse. This will enable you to make small movements with your mouse to affect big swings with minor loss to precision.
Hammerfight uses a gorgeous, pre-rendered graphical aesthetic with multiple parallax background layers and subtle lighting that, much like Highfleet, gives the game a unique and oddly realistic appearance. Smoke and spark effects and plenty of gears and mechanical details sell the diesel-punk atmosphere. Koshutin really has crafted a unique and immersive world, obviously influenced by Dune and other sci-fi mixed with ancient human myth and legend.
Again, the game is very hard for new players because of how unique it is. Even coming back to it years later after putting hundreds of hours into the non-Steam version, there are early story missions that I've had to repeat many, many times because of how difficult they are. But, games don't get much more rewarding than this IMHO.
Its sequel, Highflight (which was originally planned as Hammerfight 2), is a very different and very worthy animal. It is higher-tech and trades a melee emphasis for big guns, ability to design and build new craft, and a rogue-like submarine-like mini-game arms-race strategic meta game. Mad respect for the developer creating such unique games, that while extremely challenging, have so much depth and replayability.
Now that the game is free, you have no reason not to try it. Especially if you've played the excellent sequel. Just be aware that it takes time to get good at this game. Also, take frequent breaks and do wrist stretches/exercises or this game will give you really bad RSI (repetitive strain injury) in your wrist.
Steam User 1
god i love it but damm do i hate it this is 2024 and i can not stress that this is one of the best games ive played this year im getting to titanfall 2 lies of p and hopefully diablo 4 soon but this is on top of the leader board and i will say it is hard like really hard but it is the challenge of figuring it out that's so fun i will say the art style is gonna push some people away but give it a try and you wont be disappointed i hope that the developer realizes what they made all those years ago and makes a more refined hammerfight
Steam User 1
you fight with hammers. landing a solid hit is orgasmic.