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• gamedeal user

  Dec 8, 2021

  More Hexen. A lot of new levels, a lot more fun to be had.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 5, 2022

  I just finished my first playthrough of Hexen today, and while it was a frustrating and confusing a lot of the time, I did get some enjoyment out of the cool atmosphere and level design. Then I tried this expansion, and... it was soggy and terrible, and it got a big nope out of me. Already, the first hub is filled with clown car after clown car of enemies, and it was a giant slog to get through. And then all the enemies begin respawning, just as I tried to begin exploring the map. Sorry, but nope. I'm not doing this. EDIT: Okay, so I got into the clown car and then they pulled a gun on me telling me I couldn't leave until I finished this expansion. Honestly, it's just more Hexen, and thus I both like and loath this game. On one hand, I enjoy navigating the gloomy, foreboding world and solving its cryptic puzzles while fighting hoards of enemies. And on the other, well... the cryptic puzzles and hoards of enemies (AKA, minotaurs) can also be really annoying. Even with that, there's nothing quite like this series, and overall I had a good time with this expansion. Still gets a thumbs down because I'm a masochist.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 26, 2014

  Completed: 8/25/14 in 13 hrs on Cardinal (Hard) Diffculty. I decided to up the difficulty for the playthough of this expansion and let me tell you it was much more difficult then expected. The worst enemies are those damn Swamp Stalkers. They hide in the water and in doing so they are untargetable and likely to ambush you. One map also had 4 Death Wyverns in it and the first game had it was a boss. They really tried to up the difficulty this time around. Deathkings as well as the original Hexen included an inventory system and character selection. They should have added some new mobs or a new playable character in the expansion as they did with Hexen II but I forgive you guys. :) Deathkings is a fun game if you don't mind the retro PC graphics and gameplay. It tells you how far we have come in the genre, why some newer titles have failed. Because you don't need high resolution textures for a game it just needs to be fun and Deathkings does that. Incredibly difficult. I fear the art of Hexen will never again be replicated. The 90s are over.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 5, 2022

  More dungeon crawling, more bashing down monsters in dark gothic fantasy environments and more graphics that resemble neolithic cave paintings by today's standard.. This expansion to Hexen does not really add anything new except for a few monsters and alot of new maps but you get more of the same familiar taste. However the game becomes far more grindy with the enemies constantly respawning and this adds to the attrition of the level design. For me it is a weak recommendation but since you are reading this you probably already know how you feel about ancient games like this..
• gamedeal user

  Dec 22, 2014

  At first, it seemed like a sloppy mod rather than an expansion, but over time it grew on me as I noticed everything it had to offer. This is more of what the first game offered, but I have to say that the level design here is a lot more impressive, with tons of subtle details. The moving floors, the earthquakes, the objects that talk back, the way the ground has a more natural flow, such as the ice in the caves merging with the rock, all are good creative steps forward from the original and seem genuinely inspired. My only complaint is that most of the time, it only uses assets from the original game. Same textures, same enemies, same classes, same items. It's still really fun, but I can't see why the only new things here are the levels. I would have loved to at least fight a new final boss, rather than an endurance run of monsters and all the classes. Oh well.
• gamedeal user

  May 18, 2023

  It's same and just as as good as Beyond Heretic, but it's a bit harder. Not as hard as The Ultimate Doom compared to Doom, or Shadow of the Serpent Riders compared to Heretic, but hard nonetheless. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2977222875
• ReptilianAscendant

  Jun 13, 2015

  Oh Hexen, how I love thee. Bar none, my favorite FPS. How its expansion pack fails to live up to the original. Long story short, the balancing issues are obnoxious and it really takes away from the enjoyment of the game; for the sake of cranking up the difficulty, now ALL monsters respawn instead of just Ettins, which as pointed out by another user, renders much of the game an unbalanced pain in the @$$ instead of making it more challenging due to constantly draining you of ammo and supplies. Imagine having to play Doom with constantly respawning Cacodemons and Mancubi, that's how it feels to have respawning Chaos Serpents when your Fighter is low on green mana (trying to do Brackenwood as the Fighter, without even your Hammer of Retribution yet while FOUR Death Wyverns are flying around, is tantamount to only having your fists and chainsaw while being hounded by 4 Cyberdemons). By comparison, the expansion to Heretic (Shadow of the Serpent Riders) manages to up the difficulty while not making it seem far too cheap. And speaking of Shadow of the Serpent Riders, it comes packaged with the vanilla Heretic when you buy it, why couldn't they simply add Deathkings to the original Hexen port? Then it would make sense to buy them both as one package deal. So that being said, only pay money for this if you're buying it as part of a Heretic/Hexen bundle, if not, save your money for Hexen 2 instead. At least it provdes some novelty instead of an underwhelming rehash of a classic.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 19, 2015

  HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel is an expansion pack for Hexen, released in 1996. It doesn't feature any new gameplay elements, instead it adds more hard levels for single player and adds more levels and improvements for Multiplayer and Deathmatch. But since everybody uses Zandronum for multiplayer in Doom engine games anyway, it's only just more levels. Now, if you will try to play the game right as it was installed by Steam you will be met by disaster. It really got to be the worst out of all games that id software published here. Most importantly, the game is unpatched. It's original release. A flawed original release, where develoeprs somehow forgot to link music of Hexen to new levels. So, unless you download and patch the game up, you will have to enjoy some silence. Amazing. Check community guides on how to do that. Then, as usual, DosBox isn't configured good. It lags and so you have to go to game's directory, open the needed .conf file and edit "ddraw" output to "opengl" one. And then if you want to choose your control and music device, then you will have to go to game's folder again and drag "setup" file over "dosbox" to launch it. Expansion pack pulls quite an excuse plot twist to justify action: The evil or the sphere teleported you away into land of the dead where you have to defeat Deathkings before being able to return. Who are they anwyay. Ah, right, they just reuse end bosses from Hexen. So, game adds three new hubs to conquer. Which totals in around 30 levels. They don't use any new textures. Though there are some interesting inviroments anyway. But it's more of Hexen but harder. The thing is, Hexen was already too dragged. It didn't had enough of variety in combat and weapons for each class. It had tedious part. And bringing even more levels that are also harder and bring no new gameplay elements, well, it's not a good idea. At all. Yes, it has a sin of using bosses of Hexen as tough enemy. You fight big mage demon at the first level of the second hub already. It doesn't help that I had glitch two different glitches on the first hub. First, there weren't enough of fire masks, key items, in the first world. Yes, I checked with walkthrough on all spots. Somehow, there wasn't. Somehow. And then on another level magic bridge just didn't appear either. And wyverns, bosses of Hexen, got stuck in walls too. So, watch out on first hub. And main problem and difference in difficulty is monster respawn. Original Hexen would spawn Ettins, common melee weak enemies, after each 10 minutes. Or at least it feels so. It was there just so player will not get lonely while being lost. Dark Citadel rushes you down and beats you up. It can spawn hordes of any kind of enemy more often. And shielding centaurs that are incredibly annoying or flying imps that shoot fireballs at you aren't good enemies to respawn. What it means is that you will have to rush levels down, having to solve "puzzles", saving/loading and doing other things while being rushed down and under constant heavy pressure. Killing enemies in this game doesn't bring any benefit, there is no leveling or such. You only waste mana and time. A lot of them. So you will have to try not to pay attention to them as you have to rush rush rush your way. And if you get lost, like everybody does in Hexen, then it will not be pretty. It gets really bad on the main level of the last hub, Citadel itself. It's pretty much a hall with teleporters and switches. With water pools for no reason. And enemies not only respawn all time there, they also teleport around when reaching water pools for some reason, with without any special effect. You will be telefragged at least once. Actually, perhaps it's easier to play as Mage here. His basic weapon, that don't require mana, is a ranged one. So, Deathkings isn't good expansion pack It feels like it just milks on Hexen more. It's hard not in a good way, it's buggy, it brings nothing new outside of levels and it just makes Hexen outstay it's welcome. You miss nothing.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 20, 2011

  Good old Hexen and its Add Ons. Me and my friends played this for hours and hours killing each other, playing COOP ect. I think the atmosphere survived the ages, but for some reason the gameplay/graphics feel so poor I cannot bring myself to go back and play it again... yet Duke Nukem and DOOM I can easily play again. This game was not made for those faint at heart. It was difficult, dark, and strange. You can get stuck on some level for hours that would normally only take 10 minutes because they would hide buttons, hidden triggers, or just the requirement of killing a monster hidden behind a glass window you can only shoot from a distance. The three chars to choose from are very very different and add a interesting element to the game that old school games really didn't have. I would only get it for Nastagia, for those that never played it... you will not like this game.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 12, 2016

  This is an expansion pack for Hexen - it adds more levels for the singleplayer and the multiplayer. This game still suffers from the same problems the original Hexen suffers from – The really annoying puzzles, so if you enjoyed Hexen then you'll enjoy this expansion. The version that is on Steam as it is, is a disaster - the game version is the unpatched one (1.0) which means that music is not working. To fix that you will need to download and patch the game up (Check community guides for instruction), even though it's id software job to do this from the beginning before releasing the game in that state. Also because the DosBox version is outdated and isn't configured to modern systems, then the game will lag – to fix that download the ZDOOM or configure it yourself (again check the community guides).