Amid Evil

Alright game, play fun.

...With one huge caveat though: your computer must be strong enough to run modern AAA at "high", since this game is also quite demanding on the hardware — don't look at its "boomer shooter" artistic style, it's a proper high-end Unreal Engine 4 title. On its low settings, the game becomes barely playable: even if the combination of low resolution with bad aliasing won't literally make your eyes bleed, then the very next minute you'll discover enemies attacking you from beyond their drawing distance. If you can't run Amid Evil on "high" — I'd rather recommend you put it off until you can. I don't think this game will disappear anytime within the next decade or two; even if somehow it gets delisted from Steam, you should still be able to find it in other places.

Once you have a machine beefy enough to run Crysis 2 — then for all means, give this game a try!

Anytime I think about this game for a semi-prolonged amount of time I immediately reinstall it and play through the whole thing again.
I genuinely think I've played through it more times than any other game ever.
For people wanting good gameplay, this is such a tightly made "shooter" (feels weird to call it that when there are no guns, but mechanically that's what your basically doing) that I honestly feel like it gets cut short by the end, despite being a perfectly substantial campaign (especially with the excellent DLC, whether you play it before or after), I'm just having that good of a time! I have never felt a more satisfying melee weapon in an fps than the Axe in this game (okay, the literal JoJo reference fists in the DLC are more fun, but other than the incredible soul mode I'm pretty sure its identical to the axe in speed/rhythm/damage). Every play through I find myself primarily using a different weapon and thinking "huh, this is way more useful than I realized", as of writing the most recent one was the Staff of the Azure Orb, but I'm sure this will happen with every weapon soon enough lol!
If you're anything like me, and love strange and unique fantasy settings, oh boy will you be drowning in just that. This is such an alien and fascinating world that I wish I could learn more about it beyond what the in-game lore blurbs give you. You'll notice enemies wielding weapons similar to the ones you do, like the Whisper's Edge or Star of Torment, but they're just something a little off or different that implies so much. Not to mention the environments that leave me postulating just what they may have looked like before "The Evil" spread its influence. Oh yeah, and the main antagonist being the pure embodiment of straight up "Evil" is delightfully simple and fun! There is not a single traditional fantasy creature to be seen, no elves or dwarves, everything is unique to itself (besides the literal dragon in the DLC, but like... c'mon). Not that I dislike traditional fantasy creatures/races, far from it! It's just so inspiring to see something so fresh and unique, it almost reminds me of the Dark Crystal in that way. And that is some insanely high praise coming from me.
There are also plenty of cool trippy visuals, especially in the last section of the base game. You can play most of the worlds/chapters in whatever order you want, though I personally would save Arcane Expanse (aka, the best chapter) for last before you enter the true final world. Every world has its own unique set of enemies, which incredibly aren't just reskins of previous enemies (except for a few enemies in Astral Equinox and Solar Solstice which are pretty similar, but that's literally the joke, and a good one at that). It always manages to refresh itself, which on a first play through is definitely impressive. There are memorable moments in each world too, like the first time one of those f**kass tiki heads appear lol!
Its also just straight up gorgeous. Everything is semi-subtly pixelated in such a way that you kinda forget that it even has "retro-style" graphics for a moment when you really get in the zone. Then the blocky enemies show up and you remember very fast, but that's not a bad thing at all! Enemy designs are cool as hell. A lot of them are variations on "dude in sick ass armor", but I love dudes in sick ass armor so that's a compliment. The colors and lighting are gorgeous, which build onto the excellent environmental design to really give an incredible aesthetic that is unique to each world, but consistent as a full product.
Basically, its a very good game. I'd love a sequel, but honestly anything that builds upon what they did here would be incredibly satisfying and I'd be eager to play! Buy this game and its DLC if you have any interest in "Boomer Shooters"! If you are disappointed something is wrong with you!

You go pew pew and then the thing dies, nice graphics and even cooler atmosphere

Amid Evil is proof to me that New Blood is more than the Ultrakill people, and is what inspired me to look deeper into their catalog. The game itself is spectacular in terms of gameplay and visuals. The level design can be confusing but its so well done that it only got annoying like.. once. The story is interesting, and I'm excited to see if its properly wrapped up.

Bought this game forever ago and never touched it because "lol magic, gimme a shotgun" because I'm really stupid
Finally gave it a shot, game kicks ass

Only problem I have with this game is some of the weapons are better than others and there's no downside to only using that weapon I feel like you should be forced to use other weapons and be creative with what you have and not use the same weapon over and over. 8/10

New Blood tends to focus a lot on the old school, boomer shooters like DUSK or even HROT would just make this "yet another" in the bucket. But AMID EVIL tries something different, the scenery is magical instead of gritty and industrial. The palettes used are bright and mystical instead of rusty and mechanical. The tone chosen by AMID EVIL makes it worth a play, the gameplay won't be anything new, but the scenery is enough to have a good time.