Zortch 2 Test
A downloadable game for Windows
This is a little one level public teaser demo for Zortch 2 to whet all your appetites:
After her last adventure Zortch crashlands on a desert planet - she is determined to finally have her vacation but fate has other ideas..
Latest updates:
build 2072 even more tiny fixes + openal dll update
build 2052 yet more tiny fixes
build 2048 fix for kick - mini adjustment for grenade and mech hp
build 2038 even more small fixes
build 2024 more small fixes
build 2006 many small fixes and adjustments
build 1990 with mini fixes for ammo and firing
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- Forklift CertifiedJun 26, 2025
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Enjoyed The Demo!
Can you add multiplayer?
technically I could but in practice it's too much problem 😓
I want to concentrate on finishing it up for singleplayer first no matter what 🤔
Ok
zortch rules and so does this, my only complaint really is that its hard to tell enemies apart in this one. idk if im just moving too fast, but i think the colors of the characters in particular make it difficult to tell them apart this time around. they're mostly all dark gray and white, whereas last time you had vibrant purples, greens and blues etc. its just hard to tell in a game this fast T_T
yea it's a problem with my texture baking - they came out too flat 😓
I rebaked them since then so hopefully in the final version it won't be such a problem 🤔
coming here from next fest, such a great time.
only qualm I had was setting up controls for my controller but that was very easy to do!
this game seems it needs a dinosaur like enemy or an open map where it's all out chaos with npcs fighting each other ;)
that was actually the intention but I screwed up 😓
the dinos get placed but their ai attacks anything non-dino before you get to meet them 😭
and get invisibly slaughtered offscreen - greatly reducing enemy count in the last area 🤔
lol cool, hope you fix the bug if that's the case
Putting my comment here since I can't figure out how to review the Steam demo.
The graphics are nicer, the best parts of the first game's gameplay are preserved, even if the movement physics feel a *little* different, and I prefer the revolver and machine gun here to their closest counterparts in 1.
That said, I'd be lying if I didn't prefer the first game's art direction. Generally for being more cartoonish and Nintendo-console FPS feeling, but especially with the shotgun.
Literally every other weapon is either an improvement or at least equal looks-wise, but the shotgun just does not feel as cool as it did in the first game visually.
I also kinda prefer the character designs/proportions of the 1st games huminoids, but the new ones still look good overall.
In other words, this is shaping up to be an overall amazing sequel to an already amazing first game... even if I desperately hope you make the shotgun look more like it did in the first game, because the new look just isn't it imo.
thank you for your feedback 👍
indeed steam works in mysterious ways 😓
I guess until there is a full release there is no way to add reviews 🤔
the movement was indeed rewritten from the ground up - for better or worse
I tried to make it feel as close as possible but only somewhat succeeded 🤔
(the old physics were tied to 60fps and these new ones run at 250fps)
I guess with the better graphics some of the charm was lost
but it's not intentional they are just made with a a different technique 🤔
(main difference is that the 3D models are not hand painted this time)
Yeah, understandable...
I still hope that you make the shotgun a *little* more like the old design. 2's shotgun feels like a thin and dainty stick as opposed to the more powerful and stocky look of 1's shotgun.
it's tricky - as from side and other views it looks ok - it's that damn fps view where all these guns fall apart 😔
dont like the movement.. let me keep my momentum :(
alas these are the two major complaints about movement:
too much momentum or too much inertia 🤔
some people feel your feet is glued - some feel you are sliding on ice
I think I balanced it out just well enough to make everyone mad 😓
bonus points for finding the forklift 🤭👍
Very fun! I like the level design, lots of fun to be had with the rocket launcher's secondary fire, and the revolver is really fun, too. It was a fun challenge getting the forklift to the end, too.I feel like this a good mixture of building on the first game, without deviating too much.
nice! 👍
good job on getting the forklift to the end of the level :D
if you work a new engine , plan to add mod weapons or boarderland weapons like with attribute on weapons ? bye
I plan on modding in the future - but engine is not quite there yet 🤔
I'm not into weapon attributes myself so I won't be adding any of that 🤔
ok thanks
Awesome. Zortch news is good news.
nice
First!1!!!11!1!!111!!
the early bird gets the first 👀
indeed 🗿
I'd like to once again thank everyone who helped with testing! 😊
Let me shill some of their projects:
First of all Dom and his beloved thugs:
https://domant2.itch.io/scirocco-thugsand FreeHawk is also working on a promising game:
that you should look out for in the future 👀