Flames of Damnation

Genre: First-Person Shooter

Players: 1

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Review:

Flames of Damnation is a First-Person Shooter released on Nintendo Switch in 2025. This game dispenses with any sort of story and just has you fighting through various demonic-looking enemies in hellish locales. This is a decidedly old-school take on the genre, with players looking for keys to doors, collecting an arsenal of weapons that never have to reload, as well as health and armor pickups. There are definitely echoes of the classic Doom and Quake games here.

The presentation mirrors this. The 3D visuals look decidedly old-school in a way that’s not bad but certainly evokes an older era, with relatively low-poly enemies and environs and frequently blurry textures. The one thing I don’t think works in the visuals are the animations, which are clunky and unnatural.

On the bright side, this game has a pretty rockin’ metal-inspired soundtrack filled with wailing electric guitars (though unfortunately I don’t have examples to share here). Honestly, in a game that overall seems fairly low-budget, this is a wonderful surprise.

The gameplay seems decent enough at first too. The controls are a bit clunky, but the game seems to fit right into its niche of old-school First-Person Shooter. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take long for the flaws to start showing. Your walk speed is frustratingly slow and there’s no way to run, enemy AI is really stupid and will often let you pick enemies off from a distance without them reacting. As a part because of this, the game resorts to suddenly spawning enemies surrounding you extremely frequently, hoping to create a challenge by overwhelming you since its enemies are too dumb to do the job normally.

In the end, these gameplay issues make Flames of Damnation a pretty unsatisfying experience, and it’s particularly unfortunate because those classic First-Person Shooters this game is imitating are also available on Nintendo Switch, and it won’t even cost much to get a copy of Doom, Quake, or Duke Nukem. And that’s in addition to great retro-styled entries in the genre like Dusk and Turbo Overkill. With all these better options, I just can’t see myself recommending Flames of Damnation.

tl;dr – Flames of Damnation is a First-Person Shooter that has players blasting away demonic-looking enemies in a hellish landscape. This game is clearly aiming to imitate the classic First-Person Shooters of the genre, and while it succeeds in some ways, it falls flat in others, like clunky slow movement and brain-dead enemy AI. You have far too many better options on Nintendo Switch to waste money on this game.

Grade: C-

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