What are you playing this weekend? 2025-10-24
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It’s definitely a mixed vibes game
I think it’s decent as a roguelite shooter. But it’s a bit slow and you have to spend some time playing to appreciate it. For example I saw some reviews complaining that there are only four ranged and three melee weapons. Which is true but completely disregards how different the variants of each can be. For example there are normal grenade launchers but there also are launchers that shoot large plasma balls that remain where they land for a short time and do damage over time, there are launchers that shoot sticky timed explosives, etc., and then among those, some will shoot one at a time, some will shoot a whole set of bombs in one burst, some will shoot smaller projectiles but really really fast…
The melee weapons are a bit unbalanced though. Simply because the axe, the stereotypical slow heavy hitter weapon, can generally kill normal enemies in one hit and the other melee weapons, while not weak on paper, can’t do that. So quite often the axe is just the most convenient.
They did a good job making us use both ranged and melee weapons though with the energy system, and in addition we also have a drone with one out of several support functions, a shield, and dash, and dodge, and a super move for each weapon. So overall there is good variety in combat.
They did make some puzzling decisions too where it sometimes feels like they don’t understand the genre they picked. For a roguelite, the individual runs can be too long. If we beat a boss, we get a shortcut to that level, but as a consumable that can be used only once. At the same time the upgrades between runs take a lot of materials so skipping a few floors might not even pay off in the end. And if we die we lose some of the materials we collected, too (this can be eliminated with some upgrades relatively early, but who does this in a roguelite…) And the biggest one is just the price. For a roguelite it’s fairly expensive.
The setting is pretty far out too. For me a huge plus just because it’s not the same as every other game I’ve been playing recently. I play so many fantasy games that playing a cyborg who live streams shooting up a company in a dystopian future feels really fresh.
Thanks for the detailed response.
I didn't realise it's a roguelike, thought it's just plain old dungeon crawling (except with climbing tower, instead of descending the dungeon). Will keep it on my list for now, may give it a try sometime on a deep sale, somewhere down the road.
