Recent reviews by ᵠᵘᵃᶜᵏ'ᵈ overheal_

$20+ Alpha

Things like button mapping and toggle to sprint functioning correctly need to be play tested in house prior to releasing for that price.

Will update review when these are fixed.

Great game for mindlessly playing while bingeing podcasts or youtube in the background.

Slightly frustrating that it's another game that's impossible to beat without unlocks and grinding stat bonuses. But that's the common theme for 98% of rougelites.

It's $3. If you're interested enough that you're checking reviews, just pull the trigger.

Combat in this game is pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and only made worse by the fact that you can't bind your equipment/hand slots directly, you HAVE to use the scroll wheel after pressing ESC out of whatever build hologram you're currently in.

Will update review when this is addressed.

If the current experimental build of this game as of 12-12-21 goes live this game will no longer be replayable.

Needs a lot of rebalancing. Currently only a few build paths are truly viable, some weapons/bodies absolutely only have 1 build which in a roguelike reliant on RNG is pretty broken. Weapon choice screen shouldn't even have a decline gear swap option because the stock weapon is completely useless. The curve between underpowered and overpowered needs flattening.

High RNG (expected)
Bullet Hell
Underpowered builds if you seek variety
Crippled replayability with latest experimental patch.

EDIT: I've given it another 8 hours or so. The balancing is just abysmal. Another reviewer was right to say the way the difficulty ramps up is lazy. You go from killing everything the second it hits the screen to having your screen flooded by enemies which spawn more enemies within minutes. The power curve is asinine. I'm going to revert back to the non-experimental patch and enjoy the game for however long until this update hits. If the current changes are implemented as is I'll be uninstalling.

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EDIT 2: Gave it another 150 hours pre-launch. Critique above still applies. Moot though, because the game no longer launches in 1.0 anyway.

GREAT concept, terrible code/engine.

If you're just looking for 30 minutes of fun at a time while listening to a podcast or something, throw $3 at this, you'll have a good enough time.

However, if you're likely to get triggered by a solitary achievement alluding you because the performance of this game is unplayable at the stage of the game you'd need to get to (New Game Plus 6) then avoid this as it is the mother-of-all roguelikes in the sense that your success will rely 100% on the RNG of what happens to your snake the moment your inputs no longer register because you're getting less than 1 frame every 10 seconds and you're either spinning in a circle because your last registered input is being repeated or your blindly face plowing into every enemy and wall until the level clears or you die.

You might survive the wave, but . . .

Were you still dropping frames the moment you finished a level and the item selection screen pops up or you happened to finished the last level of a loop and see the congratulations screen?

Well CONGRATULATIONS INDEED—The game crashed!

This concept has huge potential on a more capable engine.

Valve is incentivizing reviews during the summer sale . . .