Acquitted
Congrats kid, you were acquitted. Time to go home. But guess who’s waiting for you just outside the court? An even bigger & angrier mob than the first one that tried to kill you. Good luck.
Acquitted is a satirical fast-paced zombie shooter / hack-and-slash with elements of base building and turret defense that takes place on randomly generated and fully destructible maps. Fight for your life against decades of bad parenting & education that has physically manifested into a skateboard-swinging, feces-flinging horde of undead rage!
Choose from up to 18 different weapons and items to defend yourself against the hundreds of braindead hellbent on either putting you in a grave or a prison cell for refusing.
The controls are simple (WASD + mouse twin-stick shooter) and the game takes less than a minute to learn, but the difficulty and strategic complexity increase over time. But what kind of strategies are festering inside the brains of the braindead?
Small zombies will swarm you with a variety of hand weapons while others stand back and throw bricks and bottles. They will work together from different directions to surround you, use their sheer numbers and mass to trap you, flank your position, determine complex paths and even smash barricades to reach you. Besides inflicting damage with melee weapons and projectiles, they can also blind you with foul substances, control your movement by covering the map with molotov flames, steal your weapons and send you flying back with jump kicks. Gameplay gets very interesting and chaotic when several of these enemy strategies are combined at once.
Big zombies are few in number but incredibly powerful and dangerous. Some can grab you and eat you in a single bite, while others can bulldoze their way through walls to ruin your cover and open the floodgates to more threats. Often they act as large meat shields for smaller zombies advancing behind them. Thankfully they are too big to fit through small openings, which gives you lots of escape options (especially by placing barricades) – but don’t expect them to stand near doorways letting you shoot them. They will try to find a bigger opening or, failing that, hide behind cover or circle your hiding spot menacingly as the smaller zombies ooze inside the building to flush you out. Big zombies also leave their bodies behind as obstacles, either blocking your path or maybe providing valuable cover.
How long will you last against the braindead hordes?
- 100 levels
- 18 different weapons and items
- Huge mobs of braindead
- Randomly generated maps with fully destructible environments
- Customizable main character
- Hand-drawn artwork
- Original game music
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
Acquitted (alternate title: Honey, I Owned The Libs) is a very basic wave-based twin-stick shooter where you play as someone that looks super familiar but I can't quite put my finger on blowing away what appears to be "anti-fascist" and "communist" zombies. It's clear that this game was designed for a very specific audience and of course the game has a bunch of positive reviews from said audience, but I'm entirely indifferent to the politics the game is trying to push. So, launching this, I wanted to know, does Acquitted stand up well as a game?
Well, my feelings are mixed. I played 10 levels before I was tired of playing the same goddamn bullshit over and over again. There is admittedly a bit of weapon variety as you collect more and more throughout the levels, but the game is 90% the same enemies and 100% the same level. The enemies do get slightly stronger as the game progresses; for example, they might gain special abilities or new weapons, but once you learn how the new abilities work it's just the same old shit again. And then you have the bosses that show up from time to time, and the game ramps up the difficulty on them by giving them new abilities, more health, or simply more of of the individual boss in a given wave. There's supposedly at least 1 other boss in the game that I hadn't encountered yet but my expectations are low as to how that plays out.
I wish Steam had a "mixed" option, as I would select it here, but I'm going to select thumbs up solely based on the fact that the game is bargain-bin priced, usually less than $4 on sale, and if you're a fan of the "politics" or this specific type of game you'll probably have a lot of fun with it. It's just not for me.
Steam User 4
Actually awesome. A heap of fun. I gave up because I suck at game lmao but I quite enjoyed it.
Would be even better if each level was different not the same map each time.
Steam User 13
It's not a particularly great game, It's a basic top down shooter that doesn't do anything new...
Buuuuuuuut
It rips on the lunatic left and that makes it worth every penny. Where else are you going to get to shoot antifa idiots and hulking men in dresses and wigs, not until the second civil war pops off.
Steam User 19
Play as a true American HERO.
Kyle Rittenhouse is & always was innocent, cleared of all charges.
Although the game is very simple & hard, it's so refreshing to find freedom of expression in gaming.
Putting all the Antifa and LQBTQ mental illness as Zombies is such a great representation of them.
They wanted to be represented & included, well they are in this game.
Steam now a days, being the only platform that allows such mostly peaceful shooter game, is proof of how much censorship & auto-censorchip are in the world.
Steam User 6
Dixon playing and reviewing a twin stick shooter that's not appropriate for woke snowflakes! It involves eliminating zombified commies!
Steam User 6
Fun little game about a dude and obvious self defense.
Steam User 2
I've been having a lot of fun with this game :)