Tenement

Tenement is a single-player, offline 2D arena shooter in which you fight up to 64 bots across eight large levels. Choose a character, use six different weapons and earn kill streaks to unlock characters, weapons, levels and perks. The bots keep fighting even when they are offscreen, so several battles can be taking place around the map at once.

Combat and progression

Choose how to approach each fight: take long-range shots from the shadows and place sticky bombs, or pursue enemies with close-range weapons such as the shotgun. You can also throw holy hand grenades and earn kill streaks that call in helicopters, airstrikes and nukes. Call-ins can push streaks further, while pinball-style overlays, visual effects, voice-overs and music react to your play. Holy airstrikes and nukes add slow motion, religious music and imagery, and a host comments on your performance. Swear mode can be enabled.

Characters differ in agility and health, ranging from slow and powerful to fast and weak. Choose a character and equip two perks at a time from a selection of 14, including Fast Fire, Double Grenades, Extra Health, Double Damage, Extra Agility and Quick Spawn. You can win extra perks at the start of a game on a random spinner, and some achievements unlock perks, characters, weapon modes or levels. Progress through 39 religious ranks to become a TYNEPUNK, then choose to prestige and start again. The game has 100 Steam achievements.

Rare collectibles can dramatically change a match. Findlay Diamonds and Snuff Bombs kill everyone; a Findlay Diamond can also trigger Slaughter in the Bronx. A Medusa Key turns one player into the Medusa, while a Perk Globule grants an extra random perk. Vitellius Feasts drop foods with different effects: a carrot grants night vision and invisibility, a sausage turns everyone else into a sausage, and a banana gives you heavy bullets. Collecting the right combination of gifts can trigger Slaughter in the Bronx, a slow-motion killing spree with high kill streaks. Other features include turning the worm for extra perks, Medusa encounters and the power of Red Carlos. You must defeat the Needle-Drunk to unlock the cavern.

Game modes

Free-for-all matches offer thousands of combinations. Daydream and Nightmare mission modes each include 200 pre-configured scenarios. Missions can involve rescuing miniscule businessmen, defusing thunder crash bombs, disconnecting mainframes, unlocking Medusas, finding copies of the good book and collecting motherlodes of gold.

A mission editor lets you create a third mode with up to 100 of your own missions, which friends can try to complete. A generator can also produce 100 random missions for this mode, and you can generate fresh sets whenever you like. Missions are loosely based on movie titles. Attract mode shows the bots fighting on the splash screen, while spectate mode lets you watch in slow motion.

Levels and characters

The eight maps are 2D arenas designed to appear three-dimensional, with platforms made more visible than the backgrounds. Each is set in a different year, in either the past or the future, and contains weapons, power-ups and hiding places.

• Tenement
• Favella
• Submarine
• Temple
• Epoch
• Topaz
• Substate
• Cavern

The available characters are:

• Hugo
• Dillinger
• Funny Man
• Dragoon
• Rick Fury
• Sempa
• Flesh Master
• Kraken
• Lagomorph
• Dr Beak
• Alita
• Arquebus

Perks and call-ins

Perks include:

• Fast Fire
• Double Grenades
• Double Ammo
• Longer invincibility shell
• Lucifer Copter
• More Rare Gifts
• Super Melee
• Extra Health
• Double Damage
• Extra Agility
• Longer Grenade Throw
• Short Grenade Fuse
• Long Grenade Fuse
• Quick Spawn

Kill streaks earned by you or the bots can grant call-ins:

• Helicopter
• Lucifer Copter
• Airstrike
• Nuke
• Holy Airstrike
• Holy Nuke