- 68/100
- Players43 ratings
- 80/100
- Critics4 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic5 critic reviews
- 75/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 73/100
- GameFAQsTough
- 3.5/5
- Player reviews
- 86% positive2,836 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$14.99
Where to get it
2014 · Milkstone Studios · First-person shooter · Indie
Ziggurat 2
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups!
- Released
- 23 October 2014
- Platforms
- LinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4Wii UWindowsXbox OnemacOS
- Genres
- First-person shooterIndieRoguelikeRole-playingShooter
- Developers
- Milkstone Studios
- Publishers
- Milkstone Studios
- Series
- Ziggurat
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- First person
- Themes
- ActionFantasyScience fiction
- Age ratings
- PEGI 12ACB PGCLASS_IND 10ESRB T
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain), Swedish
- Entry
- #1 in Ziggurat
- Time to beat
- 4hmain story7hwith extras40hcompletionist
About
Ziggurat is a first-person shooter dungeon crawl video game developed and published by Milkstone Studios. It was released for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac in October 2014 after being available for two months in early access, followed by a release for Xbox One in March 2015 and PlayStation 4 in April 2015. Ziggurat was inspired by the 1990s games Heretic and Hexen: Beyond Heretic. A sequel, Ziggurat 2, was released in 2021.
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Gameplay
Ziggurat is a first-person shooter and dungeon crawl video game with roguelike elements. Levels and encounters are procedurally generated and include bosses, trap rooms, spells, and treasures. During gameplay, randomly selected weapons and perks can be unlocked through travelling the dungeon and levelling up.
Development
Ziggurat was created by independent developer Milkstone Studios. It was released in early access on Steam for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and OS X. It left early access with a full release on 23 October 2014. The game was released for the Xbox One through the ID@Xbox program on 20 March 2015. A PlayStation 4 version was released in North America on 21 April 2015 and Europe on 22 April 2015.
Reception
Ziggurat received generally positive reviews from critics upon release. Aggregate review website Metacritic assigned scores of 76/100 for the Windows and Xbox One versions, and 79/100 for the PlayStation 4 version. Some critics likened the game to Raven Software's shooters Heretic and Hexen: Beyond Heretic.
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