Solid Doom shooter, graphics and all

Very enjoyable so far!
It's like if the first System Shock was more accessible and then had a gory, bloodstained lovechild with DOOM.

Now, if you're anything like me, you probably read the title of the game, "HYPERVIOLENT", and assume it's a high-octane full-on action shooter.
That would be partially wrong, however.

Yes, you can dual-wield LMG's and tear through hordes of sprite-based creatures, leaving nothing but gore and death in your wake, but the general feel is more that of an action horror title that just happens to have really sick combat.
(Save for a few things, but we'll get to that)
Now, when it comes to horror shooters, in my opinion there's two ends of the spectrum:
Full on action FPS games that are horror themed, and horror games that happen to also be shooters.
In my opinion, HYPERVIOLENT leans mostly towards the latter. Mostly.
Ammo for most weapons is scarce, which helps with the survival horror feel. The one exception to this, in my experience, is the shotgun.
For some reason, shotgun shells are abundant compared to other ammo types.
I regularly run out of normal bullets for automatic weapons (LMG, HMG) and energy cells, but since I got the shotgun early in the game, I've only once dipped below 100 shells.
That's not a complaint at all, as the shotgun's fun to use, it's just noticeable.

Speaking of weapons, I really enjoy the variety on display! You've got your classic pistols, sub machine guns and shotguns, but you've got some cool energy weapons too! And one of my favourite weapons that's unique to this game deserves a special mention: The Neuroteth!
What it does is allow you to assume direct control of most enemies, which is a lot of fun and can be used in cool and clever ways! Stuff like this definitely gives the game bonus points from me.
There's some other cool, smaller things I appreciate, like the ability to wipe blood off your screen, or the little menus that pop up when you loot enemies that show their (former) roles aboard the station, their temperature and their time of death.

Now, I've talked a lot about specific elements of the game, but what do you actually do in the game?
To put it simply, you're responding to a signal from a mining asteroid, and learn quickly that some f__ked up stuff is going on and that you need to put a stop to it.
What this entails, aside from copious amounts of violence, is exploring the station, keycard hunting, journal reading, and inventory management.
This is where some of the horror elements really come in:
First of all, the station is DARK. Not just on account of all the undead running around, but also the fact that you can't see much without a flashlight. This, in my opinion, really helps with the feeling of vulnerability. You're forced to either go into the darkness mostly blind, having to trust your reflexes when something attacks you, or you have to reduce your damage output by equipping the flashlight, which I think is pretty cool!

Now, the game isn't perfect. There's definitely some criticisms that I have, and hopefully those will be fixed by the time of the full release.

Firstly, I want to address the inventory system: There's a lot of things I like about this game's inventory, like how keycards and ammo don't take up any space, but there's definitely some criticism I have about it.
I personally feel like the actual managing is a little annoying, on account of how moving things works. Sometimes you end up accidentally throwing out your items and weapons when all you really want to do is move them. I feel like it would work better if items snapped to the spaces in the inventory, rather than how it works now, where a slight misclick means tossing out your item.

My other main criticism is that there's some bugs, which I'll list below. In my experience, the early game is very solid and bug-free, it's just later on where some bugs happen. I'll spoiler these because they're mid to late game:
(Before that, keep in mind that this game is Early Access. I will remove these points from the review if/when they're fixed)
-In the Medbay level, Dr. Vega's terminal has a map on it. The screen says to click and drag it, but that doesn't really work. Luckily the map wasn't essential, and I could find my way around easily, but if you're gonna give me a map, I'd like to actually use it XD
-Right at the end of the Engineering Observation Area, there's an elevator which can easily cause you to fall through the map and have to reload. There's a save point right before it, which is nice, but unfortunately falling through the floor kinda breaks the immersion.
-After the mech boss in Engineering, after you turn off the gravity generator, there were numerous bugs I encountered. Firstly, one of the enemies turned invincible on my first go, which caused a death that was kinda BS. Then on my second try I fell through the floor, and couldn't reload the autosave. That was kind of frustrating so then I quit for the day and wrote this review.

Now, I'm sure most of these will end up fixed eventually, but even if they won't, I'd still give it a tentative recommendation depending on how much jank you can tolerate. However, if they do end up fixed, it'll be absolutely great.
I feel that the quality time I've had with the game outweighs any frustration from the bugs, but if that's a concern for you, I'd say just wishlist it and wait for the full release.
I personally really like the game, and will come back to it regardless of whether these specific bugs are fixed.
Looking forward to seeing how this one comes together!~