PIXELTHE STANDALONE SEQUEL OF THE BRAZILIAN BOOMER SHOOTER GAME MADE USING THE ID TECH 2 ENGINE! SHOOT, JUMP, DOUBLE JUMP AND DASH! EMBARK ON A JOURNEY THROUGHOUT TH
Brazilian Drug Dealer Before 4 is out on Steam at $4.49, with a 10% launch discount at the time of writing. It is a boomer shooter built on id Tech 2 — the engine that ran Quake II in 1997.
A genuine id Tech 2 game in 2026
That is the detail worth pausing on. Most retro shooters emulate the look with a modern engine; Joeveno are using the actual thing. It constrains what the game can do and goes some way to explaining why it costs four dollars.
The engine is nearly thirty years old and open source, which is why small teams still reach for it. It gives you Quake II’s movement for free, and that movement is the reason boomer shooters feel the way they do — building on it is a shortcut to the feel rather than a nostalgia affectation.
Brazilian Drug Dealer Before 4 is standalone
Joeveno describe it as a standalone sequel, so the previous three are not required reading. Given the title is a self-aware joke about sequel numbering, that is probably the point.
Shoot, jump, double jump, dash
In Brazilian Drug Dealer Before 4 the movement list is the pitch. Boomer shooters live on traversal speed, and a double jump plus dash on an engine this old suggests the developer has modified it rather than simply dressed it up.
Rio, São Paulo, Salvador, and then hell
The stated route runs across real Brazilian states before leaving for less mappable territory — heaven and hell are both listed destinations. For a boomer shooter that usually means the back half abandons realistic level design entirely, which is generally when games like this are at their best.
Brazilian indie shooters with local settings are a small but genuine scene, and the specificity is part of the appeal. Naming actual states rather than inventing a generic city is a choice.
It runs to twenty-odd words and describes the entire plot, which tells you the register before you have seen a screenshot. Joeveno are not making a serious game about Rio, and pretending otherwise would misrepresent it.
Whether that lands is a matter of taste. This corner of the scene produces a steady run of these — cheap, fast, loud, deliberately absurd — and they have a real audience.
Four dollars
Brazilian Drug Dealer Before 4 is $4.49 at the time of writing, co-published with NoQuarter. Expect a short, fast campaign rather than a long one, and price your expectations accordingly.
At a glance — verified Steam listing
Developer: Joeveno · Publishers: Joeveno, NoQuarter · Released: 16 September 2026 · Price: $4.49 (10% launch discount at the time of writing) · Genre: Action, Adventure · View on Steam
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