Horror Face Shooter

Why We Picked Horror Face Shooter

What Horror Face Shooter asks for is holding a line against waves that keep coming, planned two moves before you can afford it. The loop is income, then spending, then a threat that tests the spending; the tension sits in the third part. It rewards a plan that survives contact with the first wave. It ends when the line breaks rather than when the story says so, which is the honest ending. On the record: 298 plays, 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, and 421 of 500 on the arcade shelf.

How to Play

Three rules cover almost everything this game asks of you:

• Aim with the pointer and fire; there is no reload to manage.
• Stop the waves before they reach the end of the track; the layout decides more than the units.
• Check the next threat before you spend; the coming wave decides the coming purchase.

Editor’s Note

Losing is legible here, which is more than the genre usually offers. Tower defense, tycoon, and base building all live here, and all of them are really about the order of purchases.

Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.