Pereelous

This is one of those moments where you wish there was a neutral option. This game is a good roguelike that is similar to Slots & Daggers, yet unique in its own way. I just finished 100%ing it, and it was quite fun. So what's wrong? Well, the game is unpolished, buggy, and very, very unbalanced. Some achievements reward before they should be. Some descriptions have typing errors. Sometimes. the game crashes from you going to the main menu. Some common relics are better than some mythical ones (there is also a rare that does the same as two mythical relics combined for some reason??), and there is one weapon that is so good, and is a STARTER weapon, that I've never even tried over half of the weapons in the game. So if you don't mind the occasional bugs, the lackluster tutorial, barebones story, and an almost complete lack of QoL features, this game is fun for its price tag (especially since I bought it for 80% off). I did, all in all, have a good time. But I don't think everyone would.

The game has the bones of something very fun, but ultimately fails to deliver on its promise. You ultimately never seem to have a run with huge synergy cool multi combo action that would expect from a rogue-like based on reels of all things. The game has a variety of issues: Enemies scale much more quickly than your own reels can. This ultimately leads to feeling like you need to min-max your build as quickly as possible and removes the ability to explore different options in the upgrade screen. Additionally status reels work very effectively initially, but completely fall off in later acts as enemies just do too much damage to quickly for the statuses to affect them. The only resource is gold. This is actually part of what I thought was very interesting in this game to begin with. It is a fun concept to ration your upgrades, rerolls, and purchases in a shop. Unfortunately there is a bit of a balance problem when it comes to how much some things cost. This goes back to the first problem, but the optimal strategy seems to be to ignore your bad reels in hopes that you can remove them rather than wasting your very limited resources. Shops are also basically worthless as you very …

It's okay... I guess. For what it costs, I suppose I can recommend. The art is decent, and the core gameplay loop is fun, but the balancing is horrible, with a lot of things feeling like oversights. Why is chain so much more powerful than everything else? Why do the big scary rats from the third level sometimes show up and obliterate you on level 1 or 2? Why are there loads of ways to get armour but no payoff for it? Why is poison / burn so useless against enemies and yet so strong against the player? Fleeing feels useless, until you realise that fleeing a boss counts as a victory, even against the final boss - even the secret mega-final boss, meaning that being able to reroll fleeing is an insane trump card that can win you the entire game provided you have enough gold to essentially bribe your way through every challenging fight. Just some weird design choices. 6/10.

I don't really know anything about playing slots, but this game wicked fun.

I think the game has a lot of potential within the genre. I just think it need a bit more work - some balancing, and remove the stupid weapon durability.

great potential, great art, seems like a really good recipe, fails to be enjoyable, can't say id recomened it in current state.