i really wanted to give this game a chance. it's a roguelike that got 1,000 reviews in a month?! is this the next stoneshard?!

no.

did you stare at your ceiling in your bed giggling to yourself after released a game that's *deliberately* a bump fest?

"that's the poi-" your point is ass! your game has no primary gameplay loop! you have a dedicated auto play button! you *predicted someone asking for it!* it doesn't even work on some builds because those builds revolve around standing still and doing *nothing*

i'm stuck between calling this game AAA in a freeware tileset trenchcoat or the one that tragically crashed into a tree going to the auto battler frat party

both work. the AAA formula demands the kind of simplification this game goes through in a moment to moment basis only to supplement it with facile RPG elements to "play your way", and big gwafiks to share on twitter to capitalize on the engagement loop. the presentation in a tragic irony to what i said would be incredible if the game was more than a collection of loosely thematically connected art assets attached to loosely thematically connected ambiance, shuffled between that insufferable scifi trope of name dropping until you get the lore and completely disconnected procedural landscaping in both the "world map" (which suspiciously behaves more like a roguelite) and the grounds of what doesn't even bother to pretend to be tactical gameplay

this is a dealbreaker no matter how you look at it, i should have played the demo instead of being swept up by hype (AAA poser...but thank you for making a demo, genuinely.), but maybe people can find appreciation in the macro?

i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love rift wizard. i have a begrudging respect for tales of maj'eyal. in both of those games, i dont have to vacantly stack a concept in order to win on my first try. both rift wizards would laugh if i went in thinking my build was gonna be "minion spam :D". here i win nearly effortlessly on my first try! at this point i was already completely numb and slightly aggravated, but i know how roguelites work, which this game is structured as. i went on to the next ascension and proceeded to obliterate half the game using an armor spam build before saying "♥♥♥♥ it! i have better things to do with my life!"

you want a power fantasy in your bronze age high dark fantasy (an absolutely stellar idea, the setting)? are you nuts? fine, but you need to give someone just enough challenge to feel like they need to use 10% of their power. prototype understands this; how good is that game if you shrugged off tank rounds like you were benedict cumberpatch's canthal tilt?

this game is interminably frustrating precisely because it's creative, unique, and thought provoking. roguelikes are either creative marvels or derivative slop, and most of the creative ones are the reason why someone else in the review section said that roguelikes are going through a second golden age. yours should be good! people should have fun tearing apart the individual concepts of this buffet and making something cohesive instead of vapid.

The game is good but I can't recommend it on the basis that it just ties itself to 2 games (Tales of Maj'Eyal and Rift Wizard) that are also both very good games. This game tries to tie in a lot of mechanics and aspects of either one but does not do it remotely as good as either. Maybe in future updates it will try to develop an identity of its own with more to do in the game but as it stands the game is very minimal.

Game just isn't balanced - there's zero gameplay, which is kind of the point and honestly would be fine if the builds were balanced. Summons are a joke you could finish the game with a spacebar macro - everything else requires 110% investment in health and mitigation, and you die anyway. It feels like every build needs some amount of summons or you get focused and die in 1 turn if you get a bad map with LOS to all mobs at spawn.

It's got that "one more run" appeal and honestly I'll probably put more hours into it as "unfair" never stopped anyone from playing these kinds of games but ffs balance out the early game I'm tired of dodging the first 2 towers with any character that isn't a summoner or a flat out tank.

So you hit tab and the game plays itself.

I don't think I'm the "modern audience" that this game is targeted at.

The game hides where the tutorial is and just throws you into the game without knowing how to play. Refund requested.

Game is super easy. Beat it in the second run running through everything without any opposition. I just chose physical damage, hit two of the basic bloodrage prayers every map and never went under 75% HP while decimating the opposition. The result of this basic strategy let me beat the game in an hour holding right-click and occasionnally hitting "1".

Every aspect of the game is a giant wall of text, so I just equipped bigger numbers and disregarded everything that had a trigger that didn't fit my build, without reading any of it. Chose the four martial talents that matched physical damage and one hand + shield. Considering that even without strategizing at all or analyzing the different stats, I tore through the game, I don't see any reason to try other builds or explore the many different classes.

I do not understand why this game is so highly praised. Not for me I guess, but I really don't see how holding right-click and hitting every option in a given damage category is so engaging.

Meh. The first round (cycle) was good. It was nice enough to mess around with builds and gear and to try to figure out the mechanics. But after beating the first round (after about two hours of messing around) and having the character reset (losing all gear, points, skills, etc.) I tried mustering up the enthusiasm to play through the second cycle and found that I couldn't be bothered.

If you're someone who really likes short games with very little depth but a decent enough amount of width (there are lots of combinations to tinker with), this might be the game for you. For someone like me, who likes grinds and progression, I'm not sure how much more of it I'll play.

I honestly don't get how does it have so many positive reviews compared to negative.

I really enjoy games of this style like Siralim Ultimate and Rift Wizard, the difference is that those games not only are less overwhelming right from the get go, but also demand you to actually care for the game and how you wanna build your character (they also have a much better presentation in my opnion).

My experience with this one was booting up the game, seeing the game throw a metric ♥♥♥♥ ton of information about stats, character classes/races, items, etc. putting me in game and a pop-up saying "hold down right click/tab to auto play". Held right-click for a couple of floors and died (using the default character combination)

Second run I decided to put just a tiny bit a care into the initial character creation, and turns out that was enough to win a whole run by litterally just holding right click, sacrificing equips I didn't want and investing skill points. I could not care less about all the text that the game wanted to throw, be it enemy abilites, what where their resists, what loot was I going to grab, nothing. It's weird cuz the game in one hand demands your brain power to want to make a strong build but at the same time gives you the tools to go full on brain dead holding a single button and winning.

I usually don't write reviews for games I refund, but I feel like the "Overwhemingly Positive" doesn't feel justified in the slightest

Overwhelmingly positive? Not by a long shot.

Is this what the tablet generation who watches multi-screen screaming garbage videos at the same time while watching some indian guy scrub a rug on their third screen finds fun?

This game is for the attention span of a gnat. Everything happens in about 8 seconds, the dungeons are like 10 seconds long, sometimes 25 seconds, if you ahve multiple floors. Then you get a bunch of items that let you build up for what, more 5 second fights? Ive had more fun staring at a screensaver on an old work pc than this thing.

I don't get why people like this so much. It got kinda boring fast for me. The "levels" are more like little death-match arenas, than levels in a dungeon. There is only fighting, looting and customizing your build. That's it. Everything is kinda simple and it just didn't do it for me.