Anger Foot review

Our Verdict

PC Gamer’s got your backOur experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.Find out more about how we evaluate games and hardware.

Need to knowWhat is it?A fast-paced FPS with one of the most satisfying melee moves around.Release date:July 11, 2024Expect to pay:$25/£21Developer:Free LivesPublisher:DevolverReviewed on:Core i5-12600K, RTX 3070, 32GB RAMMultiplayer:NoSteam Deck:VerifiedLink:Steam

Need to know

What is it?A fast-paced FPS with one of the most satisfying melee moves around.Release date:July 11, 2024Expect to pay:$25/£21Developer:Free LivesPublisher:DevolverReviewed on:Core i5-12600K, RTX 3070, 32GB RAMMultiplayer:NoSteam Deck:VerifiedLink:Steam

Podiatric Excellence

Image1of3(Image credit: Free Lives)(Image credit: Free Lives)(Image credit: Free Lives)

Image1of3

(Image credit: Free Lives)(Image credit: Free Lives)(Image credit: Free Lives)

(Image credit: Free Lives)

pointing gun at enviro storytelling skeletons

(Image credit: Free Lives)

rats hanging around campfire

(Image credit: Free Lives)

relaxation room and stress room

You are always a single button press away from one of the better instant melees I’ve ever seen in a game. The Anger Foot kick has a different vibe from Dark Messiah or Deathloop’s legendary NPC punts—it kills enemies outright instead of knocking them into traps⁠—but it’s similarly satisfying. Every fight begins with you blasting a door open with your clodhopper, often sending it flying right into an enemy for an instant kill. It’s a fantastic mechanic, and my only gripe is that the powerup that activates bullet time on kicking a door down doesn’t unlock until the very end of the game.

It feels weird to say that a game brimming with gleeful scatological humor shows restraint.

Each mission has two challenges to complete in addition to just clearing the level. There are a bunch of different flavors of speedrun (kill every enemy, no jumping), playstyle and loadout restrictions, creative multikills, and even a few gag/secret objectives. I started off trying to nail every one, but the challenge quickly ramps up, and some even require power ups you can only unlock later in the campaign.

Anger Foot feels generous and substantial, and it’s about the perfect length for an arcadey, level-based shooter. I rolled credits at about nine hours with maybe 40% of the optional objectives left to go, but you could probably get it in under six if you just ignored them altogether. Anger Foot also keeps a lot in reserve for the back half, with most of my favorite weapons, levels, and enemies showing up in the third and fourth of four zones.

Adult Swim

Image1of3(Image credit: Free Lives)(Image credit: Free Lives)(Image credit: Free Lives)

Image1of3

(Image credit: Free Lives)(Image credit: Free Lives)(Image credit: Free Lives)

(Image credit: Free Lives)

man and minime working at desks under “don’t forget to glock in” signs

(Image credit: Free Lives)

enviro storytelling skelly on toilet

(Image credit: Free Lives)

shantytown in polluted sewer

I didn’t go in expecting to love Anger Foot’s aesthetic, but it really grew on me. The vibe is “adult comedy animation, but one of the actually funny ones.” Names like “Shit City” or “The Crime Minister” risk being goofy in a bad way or “cringe” as the kids say, but the bits always landed for me⁠—it all felt cheeky and fun, and not self-consciously edgy.

A huge thing to Anger Foot’s credit is that its jokes never overstay their welcome, and most of the comedy is strictly optional: There’s no quirky mission control or Justin Roiland-voiced talking gun yapping at you all the time. There are interstitial non-combat levels full of NPCs to chat with or ignore at your leisure, all of whom deliver three or four-line jokes that usually got me to chuckle, and if you feel annoyed, you can just kick them after with zero consequence. My favorite bits, though, were countless sight gags that are easy to miss as you just zoom through the levels⁠—shout out to the office conference room where all the chairs were toilets. It feels weird to say that a game brimming with gleeful scatological humor shows restraint,but it kinda does.

My biggest issues were technical: There are “fun” bugs like the charge attack or situationally high-recoil weapons launching you outside the level, but I did have the misfortune of running into one of those late into my dozenth attempt on a difficult mission. More unambiguously frustrating was Anger Foot’s performance: Some particularly busy rooms would leave the framerate chugging at 1440p on my RTX 3070 and 2021 i5, and I still ran into some hitches playing the game on a 1280x960 monitor.

None of that was a dealbreaker for me, though, and this feels like the sort of thing developer Free Lives can improve with patches. We’ve got a glut of indie shooters right now, but Anger Foot really sets itself apart⁠: This feels very different from what most boomer shooters are attempting, and it’s an easy recommendation whether you decide to tear through it once or really take the time to master its optional challenges.

The Verdict

85Read our review policy

Anger Foot

More about anger footAnger Foot found its secret sauce in creative, sometimes ‘impossible’ challenge objectives, but the devs admit the one where you have to go on a lizard-licking psychedelic trip and destroy a toilet came from the ‘running out of ideas phase’Ass-kicking FPS Anger Foot is coming in July: ‘Shit City is a disease and your foot is the cure’LatestToday’s Wordle answer for Friday, January 10See more latest►

More about anger foot

Anger Foot found its secret sauce in creative, sometimes ‘impossible’ challenge objectives, but the devs admit the one where you have to go on a lizard-licking psychedelic trip and destroy a toilet came from the ‘running out of ideas phase’Ass-kicking FPS Anger Foot is coming in July: ‘Shit City is a disease and your foot is the cure’

silhouetted figure with evil anime glasses

Anger Foot trailer still

Ass-kicking FPS Anger Foot is coming in July: ‘Shit City is a disease and your foot is the cure’

LatestToday’s Wordle answer for Friday, January 10See more latest►

Latest

Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, January 10

Today’s Wordle being played on a phone

Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, January 10

See more latest►

Most PopularTurtle Beach Stealth Pivot reviewIkea Matchspel gaming chair reviewASRock DeskMini X600 reviewZotac Zbox Magnus EN374070C reviewMinisforum AtomMan G7 Ti reviewSamsung Galaxy Book4 Ultra reviewNoctua NH-D15 G2 reviewGulikit KK3 Max reviewBallionaire reviewMarvel Rivals reviewBe Quiet! Dark Rock 5 review

Most Popular

Turtle Beach Stealth Pivot review

Ikea Matchspel gaming chair review

ASRock DeskMini X600 review

Zotac Zbox Magnus EN374070C review

Minisforum AtomMan G7 Ti review

Samsung Galaxy Book4 Ultra review

Noctua NH-D15 G2 review

Gulikit KK3 Max review

Ballionaire review

Marvel Rivals review

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 review

HARDWARE BUYING GUIDESLATEST GAME REVIEWS1Best Steam Deck accessories in Australia for 2025: Our favorite docks, powerbanks and gamepads2Best graphics card for laptops: the mobile GPUs I’d want in my next gaming laptop3Best mini PCs in 2025: The compact computers I love the most4Best 14-inch gaming laptop: The top compact gaming laptops I’ve held in these hands5Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2025: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I’ve tested1Thank Goodness You’re Here! review2Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island review3WD Black SN850X 8 TB NVMe SSD review4Ikea Utespelare desk review5Asus ROG Harpe Ace Mini wireless mouse review

HARDWARE BUYING GUIDESLATEST GAME REVIEWS

1Best Steam Deck accessories in Australia for 2025: Our favorite docks, powerbanks and gamepads

A bunch of the best Steam Deck accessories on a blue background.

1Best Steam Deck accessories in Australia for 2025: Our favorite docks, powerbanks and gamepads

Best Steam Deck accessories in Australia for 2025: Our favorite docks, powerbanks and gamepads

2Best graphics card for laptops: the mobile GPUs I’d want in my next gaming laptop

Best graphics card for laptops: the mobile GPUs I’d want in my next gaming laptop

3Best mini PCs in 2025: The compact computers I love the most

Best mini PCs in 2025: The compact computers I love the most

4Best 14-inch gaming laptop: The top compact gaming laptops I’ve held in these hands

Best 14-inch gaming laptop: The top compact gaming laptops I’ve held in these hands

5Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2025: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I’ve tested

Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2025: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I’ve tested

1Thank Goodness You’re Here! review

Thank Goodness You’re Here review

1Thank Goodness You’re Here! review

Thank Goodness You’re Here! review

2Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island review

Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island review

3WD Black SN850X 8 TB NVMe SSD review

WD Black SN850X 8 TB NVMe SSD review

4Ikea Utespelare desk review

Ikea Utespelare desk review

5Asus ROG Harpe Ace Mini wireless mouse review

Asus ROG Harpe Ace Mini wireless mouse review

Our Verdict#

Podiatric Excellence#

Adult Swim#

Our Verdict

Podiatric Excellence

Adult Swim