I love this game, it's very very fun, but it's extremely unforgiving. It's advertised as a roguelike. It says right on the label that it's hard, and progression takes 1000000 hours of practice (or at least the amount of practice needed is exponential to your age or something, and I'm only getting older). You can progress, tinker your wand, get amazing perks, collect tons of health upgrades, be very very careful, then whoops, an enemy shoots a thing that was in the dark which blows up something and bla bla bla and you're dead, instantly. Now this is fine, cause again, the game says it's going to do this. The problem is that all that progress is basically chucked down the drain and you start from scratch. I like the starting from scratch, but let me feel SOME accomplishment by almost clearing The Vault and then dying. Ultimately, the issue is that I work ~50 hours / week and take care of two kids. I sometimes go a week without playing or more. I may choose to play a game with my friends in the little free time I have. I sometimes feel the game is saying: Well friend, you can't get the reps in to master this game so *shrug* sorry. Having said that, since I bought this thing, gog says I've logged 238 hours and have 50% of the achievements. Looking online and at how many hours one should play this game to master / beat it, per the interwebs, I just really, really suck at the game. This is a bummer because I do really enjoy it and want to keep playing. You can add mods, but then it feels like you're playing the game in a way the game was not intended to be played and that's a bummer. I wish there was a "loudout" of spells you can earn or a better starting wand based on what you've "unlocked" in the game or something. I dunno. TLDR: Good game. Frustratingly punishing for tiny tiny things sometimes completely out of your control. Often with hours of work down the drain with nothing to show for it. Wanting to progress, but apparently I suck. Shrug
