Ziggurat

In itself a very simple game, that capitalize on repetition: the only drive to go further in the game is derived from unlocking more powerful abilities (that you unlock either with every level-up - frequent in each level - , or when you die), that's it. No story, nothing. BUT the shooting is hella fun! Commands are VERY responsive, the game looks good and this doesn't impact the performance of the game; the art direction is also very interesting and some enemies are downright cool (for me at least... floating fishes with an eye in their mouth? I mean, YES PLEASE!). I would definitely recomend you buy it, for how much though I don't know.

I play this in between doing work when I need to clear my mind. It's fun, challenging and you don't have to remember anything in terms of quests/story-line... just drop in, blast some monsters and come back later to do the same. Sort-of reminds me of Heretic, lots of fun!

All I can say is I was genuinely stunned by this game. I am not normally one for roguelikes, and had I known that was what this game was, I may well have missed out. But I'm thankful to have made that mistake as I found myself absolutely loving my time with it! True, there are times it gets absolutely unfair, but understanding that even those add to the goal of more characters to play with and more stuff to run into the next time, it's surprisingly easy to chalk up those as bad runs and get excited to go again, a vibe I haven't felt since being a little kid playing arcade-style games in the 8 and 16 bit days. So glad for it.

Definitely not bad, if you like RPG rogue like games with lots of different challenges this is probably a good start. The 'stutter' which makes the action a bit disjointed is a problem, but adding platforming was one step too far for me. Solid effort, can recommend, but not for me.

Runs great on Linux Thanks, devs!