Rack and Slay

Very fun casual game. Easy to learn, but lots to think about. Highly recommended.

I've played a ton of this game, and even after beating all of the levels and challenges multiple times I keep coming back.

Very good concept, but this inplementation relies too heavily on RNG. Whilst you have cotrol over your ball when shooting, that is the only control you have, as pretty much all items being active on the gameplay layer are RNG "20% chance to do X AFTER shooting". As such, you get to very little actually plan your playstyle. Add in obstacles/pit being placed randomly on the map and you can simply stumble upon unbeatable, as in not within your limited number of shots, set-ups. Likely because the game doesn't very if any cimbination of set obstacles, pits and enemies is beatable with X shots or not. As such, this isn't a very good roguelike. Sure, you unlock stuff through playing (as in, additional items to randomly get offered or to [b]randomly[/b] buy) but you don't get blanket "X more health" or "X more Shot power" stuff or something along those lines. Also, the way runs are set to only be around 15 stages really shows the "smalltime" balancing and scope the game has. Yes, you can play Endless up unti the 500s of stages or so, but honestly, the game isn't getting any more challenging after a certain point. Adding "You take x times damage" doesn't equal difficutly, but then agai…

disclaimer: Got this game from a bundle but it goes as low as 3.50€ during sales Fun game, gets you coming back for more and clearing the challenges, could use some extra chains/strategy but perhaps if you are looking for a simpler roguelike and not something made to be broken on unlimited levels.. it's a chill experience. nice touch the achievements and challenges not requiring any particular difficulty so you could theoretically beat it all on easy if you wanted or leave it at normal for that extra tought process.

There's no depth here, but it offers some enjoyable throwaway fun and pulling off shots is satisfying. The different challenges provide little tweaks to gameplay, but some more meaningful variety would be appreciated. Still, if you want to switch your mind off and smash some monstrous balls, this is a fun little timekiller. I enjoyed it enough to get to 100% achievements, and to push the endless delve mode to breaking point!

If you enjoy the geometry of pool, you might like adding more mechanics to it for some entertaining and interesting twists. This has become one of my favorite chill games to play while watching TV. It's just strategic enough to be fun but not so difficult to be frustrating. Easily worth the price!