Superhot is an FPS where time only moves when you do

[wraggster]

Last month we saw the inspired week-long game jam, 7DFPS, which tasked developers with creating a first-person shooter in seven days. With this tiny timeline, developers had to get creative to produce something that felt like more than a mere Doom clone. Chris Donlanwrote about some of its highlights (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-08-19-7dfps-theres-nothing-new-under-the-gun), while I covered Notch's contribution to the project (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-08-17-notch-releases-free-browser-based-zombie-fps-shambles), but now one of its best entries, Superhot, has made waves with its upcoming spruced up commercial release getting accepted on Steam Greenlight (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=177990278) in record time."Thanks to your AMAZING support we passed Steam Greenlight in mere five days!," said Polish developer Blue Brick in its announcement (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/updates/177990278/1379541917). "We've checked it - Superhot is the fastest game ever to get greenlit."Why's it all-of-a-sudden so popular you ask? Because it's brilliant. The idea is that time only moves when you do. It's a bit like that one world in Braid then, only you can't make time move backwards. Instead, you need to meticulously line up your shots then carefully walk around in such a way that you won't collide with a bullet. It sounds easy, and indeed the first level or two are, but the challenge ramps up quickly as guns can only hold a few bullets and you die in one hit. What begins as a John-Woo-meets-Zack-Morris power fantasy swiftly evolves into a mesmerising spacial puzzler featuring perhaps the most fluid mix of real-time and turn-based combat I've encountered.

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