illWill

illWill mixes the influence of Doom, Quake, Blood, and Serious Sam, drops the result into Unreal Engine 4, and dresses it in deliberately stylish, comedically brutal old-school FPS energy. Wonderfully squelchy combat, big guns, and monsters that explode into chunks when blasted: the formula is well-trodden, but the execution leans into the chaos with confidence.

The arsenal stretches from a double-barreled shotgun (warm and beloved as grandma's soup) to a soul ripper with a never-before-seen gameplay mechanic. Dozens of monsters work to ruin your life, dead-body physics are spectacular, and the music is built to get into your heart and freeze your blood.

The game has no plot in the usual sense, but each location carries its own atmosphere and conveys story through environment. Starting in a closed room whose state hints at the time the protagonist spent inside, illWill leans on contrast: gloomy hopeless corridors against large bright levels inspired by Salvador Dali. The author describes it as a life experience translated into visual, gameplay, and emotional terms.