$14.99Beyond Citadel Reloading Is a Skill
Fight through a fallen mechanical fortress with hands-on gunplay, fast and gory, to stop the Apocalypse before it starts.
Is Beyond Citadel worth it?
Beyond Citadel is worth it if…
- you want a retro shooter where reloading is a real skill, not a single button
- you like fast, violent combat with detailed gore and don't mind turning it down in the settings if you do
- you enjoy dense, dark anime stories with heavy themes
- you liked old 90s FPS classics and want something that plays with that spirit but its own ideas
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Gunplay that makes you work for it
Every gun asks something of you. A pump shotgun needs cycling between shots, a single action revolver needs its hammer cocked, a bolt rifle needs working after every round, and a tactical reload drops the mag on the floor where you can go pick it up. It sounds fussy. It is not: a few extra keys give the weapons a weight and rhythm most shooters skip, and once the motions settle into muscle memory you can slam-fire shotguns and fan the hammer on a revolver to pour out rounds. Weapons wear down and jam, from black powder guns to futuristic energy weapons, and each type handles differently. There is a simple auto-reload mode too, if you would rather just shoot.
A dark story in a fallen world
The Citadel, humanity's last stronghold, has fallen. The Trumpeters of the Apocalypse now rule what is left, and the Martyr, last resort of the Seven Angels, wakes from cryo-sleep to follow a mysterious signal buried beneath the fortress. The tone is grim and heavy: the world is ruined, the themes are bleak, and the story is told with an anime edge that gets genuinely uncomfortable in places. The lore is drip-fed and dense, and the plot divides players: some find it gripping, others wish the game stuck to shooting. Allies accompany you, and the hand-drawn 2.5D art gives the whole thing a look no other shooter has.
What should you know before playing?
Can you turn down the gore and adult content?
Yes. There are settings to reduce the gore and to hide the explicit imagery in loading screens and artworks. The dark story itself stays the same either way, so if the themes are the problem rather than the visuals, that is worth knowing before you buy.
Does it run well?
Mostly, with a caveat worth mentioning once: on larger levels, and especially during big explosions with a lot of gore on screen, the frame rate can drop noticeably. It stays playable on modest hardware, but if you expect a locked 60 throughout, temper that.
