Dex
Explore, fight, talk and hack your way through a rich cyberpunk world in this 2D action-RPG! Wanted dead by a mysterious and far-reaching organization, you will traverse the futuristic city of Harbor Prime and make unexpected allies on your quest to bring down the system! In this cyberpunk adventure inspired by Blade Runner and Neuromancer, you are free to choose your playstyle: will you be a silent assassin, a hacker, a diplomat or a straightforward gunfighter? Designed as a throwback to earlier 2D platforming and action games combined with modern RPG elements, Dex offers real-time combat, a mature storyline and interactive dialogues. Customize your character’s skills, equipment and even augmentations – implants which grant you superhuman abilities and open up new paths within the game’s open world.
Game Discussion
Steam User 5
100% Achievement Review
This game was great. It is a cyberpunk metroidvania with branching pathways in the story. Many of the side quests also have multiple ways to complete the quests. There are normal stat points that you can distribute in lockpicking, hacking, melee, ranged and others, and also you can buy augments to do various effects like have you be immune to poison or electric damage, increase your melee, or jump really high (this is practically essential). There is also a hacking minigame unlike other hacking minigames, because the game actually becomes like a twin stick space shooter as you 'hack' your way through cyberspace. All of the dialogue is fully voice acted too, which for a game from such a small dev is a pretty nice thing.
The achievements can all be completed in a single playthrough, but a great deal of them are missable, so I recommend following a guide. Some side quests have achievements for following a specific path to completion as well. I wound up missing two on my first playthrough and had to play through half the game again to get one of the ones I missed.
Steam User 4
Dex is a flawed yet entertaining title that fails to be anything more than mediocre. I was intrigued to explore the world of Dex at first, but as I got more familiar with the game, its imperfections became more and more obvious. Dex’s story is interesting despite the usual cyberpunk clichés regarding megacorporations and artificial intelligence, but is marred by bad writing and not-so-good voice acting. Likewise the world is gorgeous to look at with lovingly crafted environments, but the whole city is essentially one long corridor that becomes a chore to navigate later on. Controls are also clunky and combat sequences are essentially an exercise of button mashing. Dex tries to change things up by introducing a hacking minigame which is fun for a while, but becomes repetitive too quickly. Overall, for everything the game does right, it leaves a lot more to be desired. I wish the game had more polished mechanics to keep things interesting for longer. Despite all this, Dex can be a decent way to spend a weekend and some fun can be had here if you enjoy cyberpunk settings.
Steam User 4
Just a good old side-scrolling, plantform-jumping, badguy-killing, sci-fi RPG with an excellent score and decent story. Worth the purchase.
Steam User 2
A fairly short and sweet game. a little rough around the edges combat wise, especially at the beginning of the game. I barely used guns throughout the game honestly. I even 100% this game, but sadly 2 of my achievements got bugged and wouldn't register, even though I did what the game wanted...
Overall, for the heavily discounted price I paid, this was a fun little game that kept me hooked to completion.
If you want an easier start with this game, I highly recommend you put a point into AR as soon as possible. Hacking most bad guys will will stun them, allowing you to go right behind them and perform a takedown. This allows you trivialize most encounters in the game until you start coming up against heavier combatants; but by then, you should have a decent inventory and level-ups to compensate. After which, definitely try to get at least 1 point in Lockpicking near immediately, with maxing it out being a priority after the 1 point in charisma. Speaking of Charisma, get at least 1 point in Charisma as early as possible (it was my very first or second spent skill point spent). I also highly recommend a minimum of Hacking level 4 sooner than later. After which, you should have a good foundation for the rest of your playthrough.
Steam User 3
Excellent 90's style side scrolling pixel graphics RPG. This game is awesome and reminds me a lot of the Shadowrun series on Sega Gen and SNES. Great story, beautiful pixel graphics, and game play. A must play if you like cyberpunk settings and 90's style pixel games. A+
Steam User 3
Nice little Cyberpunk game. Side quests and voice actings are surprisingly good. Cyberpunk atmosphere is really good, you can definitely feel it. But some of the game mechanics are not good at all. I won't say terrible but not good.
Overall I liked the game. Especially if you have Steam Deck, you should consider playing it in your free time.
Steam User 3
The game is definitely showing its age (especially when it comes to control scheme), but I still think it's worth playing if you like metroidvanias and Cyberpunk.