Strafe hands-on: The old-school PC shooter you’ve waited for since 1996

New games are dumb. I’m into that old-school stuff because video games used to have attitude. Thankfully, Strafe is coming soon to provide the low-poly action I need.

Early next month, developer Pixel Titans will finally release Strafe, a game about feeling nostalgic for something that didn’t exist when you were child, for PC, Mac, and PlayStation 4 for $20. Strafe is a throw-back shooter that looks a lot like Quake, and Pixel Titans is fully embracing that 1996 aesthetic down to the core of this new game.