Shillelagh

It's not very good, and it's not very hard. My first run got to wave 27, but my game started freezing halfway through wave 25. The tree planting mechanic and spirits are interesting ideas, but firing as fast as you can click doesn't feel great.

Reading a bunch of these reviews it's pretty clear that everyone who disliked this game struggled to understand how to play. I don't fault them for that, but they do share a lot of false or misleading info on game mechanics so I thought I'd try to clarify some things. There are two attacks, a weak attack (left mouse button) and a strong attack (right mouse button). The weak one is firing your Shillelagh like a pistol, holding the button will auto-fire slowly, but you can tap click to fire as fast as you're fingers can make it. You're mostly going to use this to shoot leaves to get solar spirits, or early on before you've grown enough trees you have to use it to kill enemies, but most types of hydras take a lot of these weak attacks to kill so you can't rely on it too much. The strong attack is commanding the Solar Spirits (the glowing cubes that fly around you), which you get by shooting the Leaves (big green cubes) that grow on the trees. The solar spirit are a ONE HIT KILL on all enemies, but the attack is harder to control. If when you hold down the right mouse button every solar spirit will fly to where you're aiming, and keep tracking until hit something or they go too far out…

The art style is decent, but that's about the only positive thing I can say. Having a semi automatic fire weapon, but then having no fire cap or consequences for just spamming as fast as you possibly can, is a recipe for disaster. No one wants to repeatedly left click their mouse button indefinitely. You either need a reload mechanic, or a fire cap, or an accuracy mechanic, or anything. The whole game is very heavily inspired by another game called "Devils Dagger". And unfortunately while it does try to change the formula slightly, it isn't nearly enough to justify it's existence and the whole game feels extremely rushed and amateurish. Especially when it is trying to be sold at the exact same price as the game it is copying, there is no possible way I could recommend this. I have no problem with being inspired or even just blatantly copying ideas or entire concepts for games, that's how genres exist, if it isn't broke don't fix it. But if you go that route when developing/selling a game you either need to be able to match the quality/content of the game you are copying, or you need to be different enough that you can justify why someone would want to play your game over the…

pretty cool game for the price, might play more later

First Person Shooters that are creative can be hard to find, but Shillelagh is easy to appreciate. The soundtrack is fantastic, the concept keeps me interested, and the leaderboards keep it competitive. I would highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys first-person shooters. 10/10

A very Nuanced game 😏😏😏