Unique action RPG style Good music, likeable characters, good pacing, cool bosses, decent dialogue, short-ish but includes optional content and basically 0 fluff like fetch quests (unless you think fighting through the same room of enemies a couple times to level up is fluff; I think its just having fun playing the game. Grinding is overblown, its a game design decision.). Fun adventure with good PC options and very playable with keyboard only or gamepad (prefer keyboard since you get dedicated buttons for all 8 directions of movement; gamepad does give you analogue movement though. I like to switch on the fly when I get tired of one.) Only one thing wrong with the game really. The enemy AI is too unforgiving and clearly balanced around the regular difficulties. Many enemies seem to have only one weakness, the plunging attack, and several others in the latter half of the game seem to have no real consistent openings to exploit, even if they are alone. This leads to plunge attack spam, since jumping in usually avoids their attacks and you can run away after the plunge hits them and hopefully stuns them. Think twice about Catastrophe mode if you want the highest difficulty. Not really much different, except there are many more Capla Waters than you can carry. You can sell or use the ones you have, but they are limited in quantity per game, so if you want to save them you will have a bunch of unopened chests everywhere. It might even be easier than regular since you can buy seemingly unlimited stat upgrade seeds in the endgame.
Got this for free on Epic Games store. Considering buying it again here. Fantastic rogue-like. It is cheap because it is short, not because it is bad. Controls like Mario with a gun, enemies die from jumping on them and from shooting them. It has rogue-lite elements with unlockable masks, but no stat-boosts or anything. You can change which mask you wear and which gun you start with once you find them once in game. Has its fair share of secrets. Fantastic and responsive graphics. Has cute lore too.
