An interesting game that's dragged down by not enough run variety and terrible enemy readability. The core gameplay is interesting, but the game does not give you a good read on what is going on, and you have to manually mouse over a TON of individual components and puzzle out how they're going to ♥♥♥♥ you over. This can be great at times, and it's still a fun game, but it's frustrating when you die because you failed to read 1/6 parts of an enemy ship.

The game is way too easy for a rogue like. I won on my first try ever playing. So the meta progression of unlocking stuff wasn't interesting because I really didn't have to figure out anything. Things get harder as you gain more levels and difficulty. But it does so in the wrong way.

Like the bosses which and just gimmicks which force you to retreat and change your build to answer their gimmick or be completely crushed. Some bosses are great, like the one that revives and gets stronger and stronger with each revive. You have control when you kill them and trigger their revive. You are giving options in that fight. This is not the case for nearly any other boss because they just cheese you. You have to retreat and keep changing your build to both not die to their cheese while dealing enough damage. It isn't the type of difficulty I am looking for because the game is essentially a puzzle. If you don't retreat and just eat the lost, than your just do trial and error the long way. I don't feel like I am building a unique build most of the time when I know if I just change my layout I would win the fight.

I lost the excitement to go for another run because it just felt to trivial to fight enemies and I didn't "feel" any of the countless of unlocks I got from winning. The combat system doesn't feel deep enough to look and be like "yea, I can make another fun build if I went for another run". Your numbers kinda just hit a point where you win and it doesn't fit an interesting power fantasy for me to be fully invested into why my number hit the winning threshold. Also, I can't stress enough the boss cheese that deletes your builds really killed the imaginative builds journey. Game felt closed in that way. Going against any of the three bosses who lock your stuff if you do said condition and the countless battles where you either win instantly or get completely countered and crushed really drove that home.

So many different ways to make a viable build without making it feel like there is always one optimal choice.