Soulash

I bought the bundle just to leave positive reviews and support the dev. Get rekt, wokie fascists!

A real hidden gem. Brutally punishing at first with a bit of a learning curve, but rewarding once you figure out what you're doing. Expect to be blindsided now and then, (maybe don't use any altars at lvl 3...) Filled with references and inspiration from all over fantasy realms, like aD&D, LOTR, Skyrim.. even Full Metal Alchemist. A real sense of progression and satisfaction, and murderhoboing everything in your path.

While enjoyable for a few hours this game is regrettably just mediocre. There are better alternatives in the genre, I can't in good conscience recommend this over them. The sequel is much the same.

Soulash is a nice game featuring my favourite trope: a villain protagonist (more precisely, one that destroys the world). As you grow and become stronger, you take on larger foes, destroy entire regions/factions and slay more and more important gods of this world. Soulash is very successful at fulfilling this power fantasy. You watch your character becoming stronger, and killing gods grants you powers and/or decays the world in a significant way in accordance to the god you killed. For instance, when the god of Blood dies, all water transforms into blood. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love this. I also loved exploring the map, finding new places, and discovering new gods (reading their description, their role, personality, cults, etc.). The gameplay is pretty unique and entertaining, a turn-based roguelike with a sight mechanic, and many items you can loot around the world with various stats and a durability system (which isn't that bad honestly). A big problem though is that it's a roguelike with permadeath. I'm okay with permadeath; you play more, understand how it works, and git gud. The problem is that not only it's a pretty hard game, it's also very long. Dying right at the end means losing like…

It's a pretty traditional roguelike where you're an evil god who kills the world. It reminds me of when I got so frustrated with the overseer of Vault City in Fallout 2 that I exterminated the whole town. It can be a little samey but overall it's nihilistic fun.

Love this game only wish is that it had a little better controller support