Action · August 11, 2023

Turbo Overkill (2023)

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' Turbo Overkill is the best Tony Hawk game in years.' - Fanbyte 'If Sam Raimi's Evil Dead movie made the Chainsaw Arm an iconic piece of weaponry, wait till you see the leg chainsaw.' - Sportskeeda 'Turbo Overkill isn't just one of the best boomer shooters on the market right now - this is one of the best games on the market, full stop.' - Superjumpmagazine Half-metal, half-human, all murder machine Heavily inspired by some of the all-time greats like Id's Doom & Quake , and Apogee's Duke Nukem 3D , with stunning cyberpunk visuals, Turbo Overkill is the most savage FPS ever released by Apogee. You play as Johnny Turbo, augmented with hidden arm rockets and a chainsaw that extends from your lower leg allowing you to slide-slice enemies wide open. In this Blade Runner -meets- DOOM hellscape, Johnny returns to his hometown of Paradise and finds its entire population possessed by Syn, a rogue AI, and its army of augmented minions. Desperate for enough money to outrun his past mistakes, Johnny takes on the impossible job of destroying the greatest AI ever created. Rival bounty hunters want to claim the prize first. Nothing is easy in paradise. Turbo Time, wall-running, dashing and grappling hooks, oh my Turbo Overkill takes over-the-top to never-before-reached heights. Activate Turbo Time(™), a new form of slow motion with a twist. Build incredible speed by wall-running and dashing. Slide on your chainsaw leg, eviscerating foes and opening up bosses for critical damage, and go car-surfing on the hoods of flying cars. Blast away with the Twin Magnums, which lock-on and instagib several foes, the Boomer Shotgun and its attached grenade launcher, or the Telefragger sniper rifle, which teleports Johnny inside an enemy before they explode from within. Race through two dozen stages packed with secrets, bonus arena stages, and white-knuckle combat puzzles. Find game-changing collectibles to unlock punishing modifiers like triple-monster-speed and insta-kill. Combine all of Johnny’s weapons and powers to outsmart, outgun and outrun the corrupted legions. TL;DR: o Kill a boss, get its augment (special power) o Play Spider-Man with your grappling hook o One-up Duke Nukem with your chainsaw slide-slice kick o Kills = cash. Use cash to install augments, upgrade your weapons, and add new abilities in your talent tree o Be a ghost runner while wall running o Attack from above riding the hood of your flying car like a kung-furious badass o Mini-rockets built into your robotic arm? ✔ o This. List. Will. Grow. Wishlist the game to see it happen Don't quote us on nuthin' “ Turbo Overkill is fast, frenetic and ferocious—excess personified,” said Sam Prebble, one half of Trigger Happy Interactive. “This is the game we’ve always wanted to play; making it is a dream project. Relentless enemies, extremely deadly and fun weapons, speed and precision above all else—if you love Quake III Arena , modern and classic DOOM , or Apogee’s legendary first-person shooters, you’ll feel right at home in Paradise.” “As the guy who helped launch the shooter genre with Wolfenstein 3D , Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D, Max Payne , and Prey , I haven’t been this excited about an FPS since the golden era of Apogee/3D Realms,” wrote Scott Miller, founder. “ Turbo Overkill is a sandbox of fun and original gameplay ideas that come together like a night of melty hot pizza and your favorite cold, frothy brew. Playing this game made me a Turbo Lover all over again.”

Action releases from 2023

223 Action titles launched in 2023 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • FPS · 200
  • Boomer Shooter · 189
  • Action · 159
  • Cyberpunk · 143
  • Shooter · 142
  • Indie · 116
  • Retro · 114
  • Fast-Paced · 108
  • Pixel Graphics · 97
  • Violent · 94
  • Gore · 92
  • Singleplayer · 84
  • Combat · 74
  • First-Person · 73
  • Arena Shooter · 71

Peer Action titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume6.5k Steam reviewsTop 52% in Action
Positive rating95% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 14%
Metacritic86/100Genre average 77 — top 14% of Action titles
Engagement hours7 h averageTop 59% for session depth among Action

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (7)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • German
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Spanish - Latin America
  • Turkish volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Turkish

Reception Metrics

Steam community

95%Overwhelmingly Positive · 6.5k reviews

6.2k positive · 324 negative

Metacritic

86/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

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Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Leaderboards

Input & Comfort

  • Partial Controller Support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Includes level editor
  • Family Sharing

Press Quotes

“Absurd, unrelenting and endlessly creative, Turbo Overkill is a masterfully composed symphony of violence.” ★★★★★ – Eurogamer “Turbo Overkill is one of the best shooters I've played in recent memory... A shooter as close to perfection as you could possibly ever get.” GmanLives “In 1987, The Evil Dead 2 introduced the chainsaw arm. Now, 35 years later—almost my whole lifetime—the chainsaw leg is finally here, and I'm happy to say that it was worth the wait... TRUE FPS INNOVATION!” PC…

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

7h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

4h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

0h

Current engagement

Achievements

67

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateAug 11, 2023
DeveloperTrigger Happy Interactive
PublisherApogee Entertainment
Base price$9.99 -50%
DLC / Add-ons3 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksMetacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Content Notes

Contains Graphic Violence

Editions & Packages

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