Anomalous

Anomalous

Released Sep 2024

A SHORT and sweet pixelated low fidelity 90s throwback hyper-fast action shooter. Survive and fight through a city overrun with manufactured monstrosities, biomass horrors, and a military authority trying to purge everything living. Heavy metal / techno soundtrack featuring BOD Music

69% positive · 180 reviews
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Active Development

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Evaluation

Anomalous launched out of Early Access on September 22, 2024, completing a development journey that began in March 2020. Since the 1.0 release, the developer has continued to update the game — a minor bug-fix patch arrived on January 26, 2025, and today (September 19, 2026) the developer shipped a substantial version 1.5 update. The 1.5 update is a major overhaul: nearly every enemy in the game has been visually redesigned and given new AI behaviours, two brand-new enemy types were added (the Synth Abomination and Kamikaze Synth), hit detection was rebuilt from the ground up, localisation was added for Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese, and numerous gameplay, audio, and visual systems were revised. This is a meaningful content and systems release, not a maintenance patch. Crucially, the developer opened the 1.5 post with: "It's been a long road. There is still more to come." This is a direct statement that development is continuing beyond this release. No specific future content has been named or announced, but the developer has made clear they are not done with the game.
Evidence
Version 1.5 ships with sweeping enemy visual and AI overhauls, two new enemy types, rebuilt hit detection, new localisation, and gameplay/audio improvements. Developer states 'there is still more to come.'
news post · Sep 19, 2026 source development ongoing
high
Game graduated from Early Access with 1.0 release, described as the culmination of over four years of development. Developer mentioned some tentative future plans including character visual updates and a possible Prison level rework.
news post · Sep 22, 2024 source ambiguous
medium

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Byron Dunwoody
Achievements
—
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Anomalous takes place in Kosolov. A grim industrial city. Kosolov is a highly controlled and secretive society. It's an industrialized nation. With overwhelming authority and a devotion to its leaders, the citizens endlessly work to death. A hard divide between the secretive upper society and the majority brainwashed working class ensures continuation. Effectively shunned from the rest of the world, leaders of Kosolov have been free to fast-track their unethical scientific experiments to enhance their tyrannical military capabilities and workforce.

To create the ultimate controllable and mindless workforce Kosolov had put in place a plan to revive the dead and set them back to work - benefitting from an already high mortality rate. Scientists have attempted mechanical implants, regenerative biomass, and a host of bizarre experiments. With numerous unforeseen consequences resulting in a catastrophic disaster, the only thing left to do is battle your way out of the city.

Music by BOD

Last evaluated Sep 19, 2026
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