Loving the game, but a big problem

[Mouth]

Going back through to find the loot you missed sucks. Sucks bad. The reduced xp and no way to skip cutscenes makes it a huge chore and unfun. Just finished chapter 5 and saw I had 57% and it made me close the game. There has to be a way to make going back through...well. Fun. At least not an agony.

[profane]

Makes you quite thorough when you explore every nook and corner, sadly chapter 10 features 1 way portals where once you go through it you cant go back to the earlier area. Anyway, the xp may be crap, but you will need the drops to buy and upgrade cards so its not a total loss going back.

[Gearhart]

If your playing with mouse and keyboard when a cutscene starts press rmb then press it again to skip.

[Kathapalt]

The answer to your question is:
https://www.ign.com/wikis/steamworld-quest/Walkthrough
Its a walkthrough with no plot spoiler, to those who dont want to explore so much

[Mouth]

That'll work. Google-fu didn't turn that up for me. Maybe link it on steam? Please don't take that disappointment as panning the whole game. I like it other than further exploration feeling off for me.

[tuxdelux]

It would be great to have the option to decide whether or not to end the chapter. There have been a few times when I went right instead of left, and then I triggered the end of the chapter. That meant that I had to go through the entire level again to get to that room, which I missed. With all the cutscenes, sometimes revisiting a level was kind of annoying.

[Phrasing!]

I never replayed a level and beat the game without losing a fight until the end boss who made me rearrange my deck. The loot doesn't matter. If you pay attention to the obvious synergies then the game is just trivially easy. I was on normal but I played a little while on hard and it was not much more difficult. I barely even ever used items.