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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 19.2 hrs on record (10.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: 27 Sep, 2018 @ 9:25am
Updated: 27 Sep, 2018 @ 10:04am

The combat feels fantastic, and the way the enemies work together is wonderful! ...but, it isn't a perfect game by any means. While the core gameplay loop is polished to a mirror shine, with only 3 biomes. and only a handful of enemies, it definitely starts to feel light on content early in. But here's the thing, because of how the enemies work together, adding more enemies would give a much greater feeling of variety per content added than if this were a different game. I'm betting adding more content is a lot harder than it sounds, however, considering how tightly designed and balanced all the items and enemies are. This issue is echoed in many other aspects too; I feel like there needs to be a few more variations on rooms, and a few more types of traps, a few more props to decorate the levels, etc. But again, because of the tight design of the game, a few more traps, or room variants, etc. would give a lot more gameplay variety than it would were this a different game. So I'm torn -I love this game, and I love everything in it, but I can't help but feel there isn't enough in it. I'm going to rate this up, and even say it's well worth the price at 15% off, but I really hope they add content updates in the future, because if they added more (items, enemies, biomes) I feel like this could be on par with the heavy hitters of the genre like Binding of Isaac, Enter the Gungeon, and Risk of Rain. Please devs, keep adding to this title.

Additional notes:
<>The game definitely feels best on K+M
<>Turning Controller vibration off does not work
<>There are at least 3 characters to play as, and each feels great and unique
<>Shields are pixel accurate, and exposed areas can still be shot
<>The AI behaviors are important to pay attention to (Boars won't attack unless provoked, for example)
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4 Comments
SGM 4 Oct, 2018 @ 2:47pm 
I would say its worth the money, but dont expect binding of issac level of replayability.
Teapot Possum 3 Oct, 2018 @ 10:45pm 
@OverchargedGaming I'd say that it has a decent amount, but a lot of it will feel very similar to prior runs. The combat will never stop feeling sharp, and there are 3 characters that all behave fundamentally different from one another, and the game is difficult enough that it'll likely take you a few hours. But in the end it really depends on if the combat is enough for you.
Asintar Deeriek 3 Oct, 2018 @ 1:49pm 
would you say that this game has replayability?
SGM 30 Sep, 2018 @ 10:13am 
I agree with this review, Everything is great and well executed. But If room variation or bioms and new nemies are not added then I could see this getting old in about 10hrs of play time most likely. I'm about 3hrs play time and about to be 2nd boss, assuming the next biome is the last the content wont take me long to complete unless I go for challenge builds I guess.