I'm really mixed on this game.

Pros
- Run-based with paths, ala Slay the Spire. I don't think I've seen this in a survivorlike yet. I dig it.
- Town management. It's not, like, REAL town mgmt, but is presented that way and is to an extent.
- You're limited to 6 skill slots, but can replace skills mid-run. So you are not locked into a specific build. But, of course, your new skills will be weak, so it's still prudent to plan builds ahead.
- Lots of equipment to accrue during a run, to make it feel more RPG-ish. And ways to customize your gear during runs at campfires.
- Keeps a record of your run history. I love this. I have not seen this in a survivorlike and it's a general feature I love in any roguelite/like. It could be presented better, like stats in StS or Griftlands or Have a Nice Death, etc.
- Some skills are twin-stick, giving you the choice to make a twin-stick build or traditional one-hand build. But there is also an option to enable autoaim, so even if you go bow/caster build, you can still play one-handed (besides dodging).

Cons
- Kinda buggy. One town building said it cost 150 gems to unlock, but charged me 300. Unless I misunderstood or mis-saw. Menu navigation w/ controller can get bugged, too. Rebinding controller buttons seems to not work (I have not tested rebinding keybinds). One time a tree path didn't seem to work and I repeated the same event twice in the same spot. And I swear a couple times the game did not register a skill upgrade.
- Game does not provide full information on unlocking characters. I.e., it is says the 2nd character requires Castle Rank 2 or progress in some quest. So, when you pay gems to get Castle Rank to 2, you go to unlock the new character and THEN see she also costs 1000 gems to unlock.
- Some of the enemy aoe/projectile path tells are inaccurate or misleading.
- Gameplay seems...I dunno. Just not as fun as Vampire Survivors, Brotato, or Bounty of One. Some arenas are small and it sometimes feel like it is more about survival than actually enjoying seeing mobs die or feeling any sort of tactical decision making.
- Following the above point, there may be possible balance issues as it seems some skills are more OP than others, so your build may determine the fun factor of seeing enemies getting melted or not. One run I maxed out 2 skills and struggled to do damage in the first chapter. Another run, I maxed out a different set of 2 skills and it was like ez mode.
- Uhh, "non-original art", I'll say. It seems to be unconfirmed if it's AI art or just purchased assets. Either way, while the art is good, it is quite generic.

My principle says to give it a thumbs down just for the supposed AI art. But since it's not confirmed, I'll give it a tepid thumbs up. The production quality and ideas are really strong. But it's ultimately not quite as fun as some other survivorlikes and could clean up some bugs.

Art and writing seem to all be AI nonsense, coupled with the poor translation it didn't give a great first impression. Gameplay itself felt unsatisfying, when I was playing I just felt more inclined to play other similar games.

Visually the game just feels like a mess, there's not really a consistent style to it. The first character it makes you play literally looks like a robin/nightwing ripoff, I wouldn't be surprised if that's what they put in the AI prompt.
When selecting abilities I didn't feel any sense of strategy at all, nothing did enough damage to warrant a proper strategy or even made me feel like I needed to avoid enemies since everything died so quickly.

Very good survivors-like. Cleared two runs. Love the variety in metagame progression.

+ No artificially inflated power curves that force you to die before you can clear the stage 3 boss.
+ Nice item system that allows to carry over a few items and continually improve them.
+ Good enemy attack visibility with default settings vs. Soulstone Survivors.
+ Works almost flawlessly on the Steam Deck. Just a few times it loses controller focus and for some tooltips you may have to use the touchscreen.
- Localization is 98% understandable but a few tooltips are hard to understand.

The UI is bad, the art seems to be generated instead of made by a person, and the gameplay feels SUPER bland. They couldnt even capitalize half the words for some reason.

FULL DISCLOSURE: Yes, I was jebaited by anime tiddies. No, I am not ashamed (only a little).


Game was too easy for my liking but if you love mindless survivor-likes that made you feel like an OP MC in a Chinese manhua then this title is for you!

6/10 -- not enough anime tiddies...

thought this was gonna be a porn game but turns out it isnt

pretty fun to be honest

I cannot, in good conscience recommend this game. I'm not sure what the other reviewers are talking about when it comes to localization, but this game's localization is terrible. It makes little to no sense. Which is becoming an all-too-familiar con in games like this. If feels like a rushed job and cash grab.

There are, for your hard earned dollars, better games to spend ten bucks on. For this review I'm showing only 1 hour of play, however, nothing has really changed from the demo, except the addition of available characters and a few systems that can be unlocked.

- Graphics: It's middling to below average. The game can become cluttered at later levels. Watch out for anything red and you'll be okay.
- Game Play: It's a Survivors knockoff. However, it really feels like a knockoff. This is the Vampire Survivors your mom has at home.
- Systems: Boring. Nothing really much else to say. The systems in this game are uninspired and not entertaining. Just kinda there.
- Price: If you really must have this game, I'd say wait for it to go on sale for $2.99 ~ $3.99 USD

I was hoping the full release would clean up the localization and improve the graphics a bit. This game is a reminder why I should stop hoping for improvement.

If you're looking at buying this game and don't already own Vampire Survivors, go buy that instead. You won't be sorry.

So far this game doesn't do anything that other Survivor-likes haven't already done better -- the combat areas are especially clunky because they're so limited on space and look so crowded and messy that it's hard to tell exactly what's going on pretty quickly. Telegraphed attacks are this game's strongest feature since they're so well-designed, but otherwise color choices and such for enemies just make everything look like a blob of indistinct noise.

I genuinely don't understand why so many people recommend this game. Every time I load it up I feel like I am playing a uninspired, AI generated, Mobile game. I have fun sure, but so much stuff just seems off about this game for me to take it seriously.

- Characters feel like AI
- UI has a lot of misalignment everywhere. Not very polished.
- Dialogue is definitely AI/ Language translated poorly. So I want to skip a lot of the dialogue, but I can't, because it is important for doing events in this game.
- I have encountered so many random bugs, crashing on mission completed, stats not updating correctly when you get a piece of gear, gear pieces not doing what they are supposed to, the list goes on.
- In these games there is always the better skills and what not, this game, there are tons of skills that absolutely suck. Balance just seems bad most times.
- Cutscenes for bosses are super jank, like the indie of the indie.


+ The level based progression/home base is super cool, if only it didn't feel so hollow for me. It is fun to buy new gear as you progress.
+ Every time you play you rack up gear that you can use in further runs. You get a trove that you can just store gear into pretty much.
+ The 3 Main bosses I fought are OK, you actually have to pay attention to not die. But there doesn't seem to be any variance to the fights, so you know what to expect every time.

Overall, this game should be right up my ally but due to how uninspired this feels I just can't take it seriously. I will visit every now again to see if my opinion changes.

I wanted to recommend this game and genuinely enjoyed the demo, however; the live build causes my entire pc to shutdown at random points during gameplay. Also, apparently they are utilizing AI generated art assets.