How do I even describe this game?

You play as a little boy shooting tears at increasingly demonic enemies. To survive, you have to change yourself with different items scattered around the levels. Generally, the most powerful items have an unholy slant, meaning you have to become what you're killing to triumph over them.

There are 6 characters in BoI, and the replay value is huge, as each one offers different playstyles and starting items. In fact, in order to experience everything, you actually have to beat the game ~20 times, at least twice with each character, and since one character takes 10 playthroughs to unlock... there you go.

I wholeheartedly recommend this. I picked it up for 4.50 the day it came out, and I sunk about 80 hours into it before finally getting the Golden God achievement, meaning I had found everything there was to find.

This game is pretty fun and challenging, even if I don't know wtf I'm doing with half the classes. It has some TF2 elements (classes, stylized graphics), but is different enough to warrant shelling out some money for. My only gripe is that the Support's heal beam can't instantly switch targets, but that's just the Medic in me raging.

This game is a challenge to play, but very rewarding when you finally figure out the solution. I'm on the 3rd world of 10, and the difficulty curve just keeps ramping up. It's as if the game is trying to say, "You mastered this level, but can I challenge you to build on that concept? Or perhaps combine 2-3 concepts from previous levels?"

Supporting the game is a badass soundtrack. If you get stuck, you can chill for a few minutes and just listen to the music while trying to sort stuff out in your head. My absolute favorite part, however, is that you can constantly try to build a level and run it. If in doesn't work, you're only a few button clicks away from a blank slate again. It promotes a sort of 'test and see" reaction; you build something you think works, run it slowly, see where it fails, and then try to fix it from there. And once you finally get the solution, you can upload solutions straight to YouTube for all your followers to see.

Buy this game now.

Reposted for Summer!