Primordio

Primordio is a unique survivor-like game where you are a wisp floating around an abstract landscape filled with ambiguous creatures. You kill stuff to release exp, grab exp to level up, level up to upgrade your stats, and upgrade your stats to kill more stuff, then after each run you spend essence to get meta-upgrades and make yourself stronger for the next run. This is the standard loop for the genre, but Primordio adds a couple of unique twists: 1. You move by dragging and dropping yourself. It sounds weird, but works surprisingly well, and can allow you to weasel your way through tiny gaps in the enemies to find a safe place to park. 2. "Words of power" are a unique, fun mechanic where you find runic words floating around the void, which you can eventually inscribe to add different effects to your game. Some are just stat boosts, some make the game harder while giving you bonus exp or essence, some add completely new mechanics to the game, and a few make you totally overpowered. Each run, you can choose which ones to inscribe depending on the type of game you want to play. 3. When you get too strong or max out your meta-upgrades and can't progress further, you can reset most of…

[b][h1] 7/10 - Shocking Bullet Heaven [/h1][/b] [b] Shockingly addictive space based bullet heaven! [/b] [hr][/hr][h2][u] Gameplay [/u][/h2] You can become a powerful star that spreads out chain lightning, damaging auras, thunder strikes, magic missles and fireballs in this bullet heaven! There's a large amount of incremental meta progression skill system you can keep increasing your power overtime while resetting your progression for prestiege points. You can find "words" out in runs and if you inscrypt them before your next run you can unlock some new effects you pay to turn on for future runs. A handful of elite enemies/bosses that have different abilities to deal with other than horde of generic enemies. Unique bullet heaven where instead of moving with WASD you have to click and hold then drag your character around - fun movement that's fresh for this genre. [hr][/hr][h2][u] Visuals [/u][/h2] Bright clear to see enemies and spell effects on a dark spacey background, works well. [hr][/hr][h2][u] Sounds [/u][/h2] Satisfying chain lightning arc sounds on enemies. Soundtrack is enjoyable. [hr][/hr][h2][u] UI & UX [/u][/h2] Quite minimalistic and clean - take's a little while …

After playing this in a trance for hours and earning all my upgrades, the game suggested I delete all my upgrades and start over. I did.

Yes, I would recommend this game to other players.

I saw a post about the game on reddit, tried the open beta and was really hooked! Tried the beta for the first season and i'm still hooked. Good changes for endgame

[i]Upd: tag's been removed, but my 8.5 hours arent, cheers[/i] [h1]Is it an [b]incremental[/b]?[/h1] I bought this game mainly due to that steam tag [b]before[/b] season 1 update, and was at the crossroads of "should i keep playing or wait for the upcoming update", and after that update came, i've given up [b]any[/b] hope of this being up my alley. [hr][/hr][b]Game is clearly not for me[/b] because its a [b]rogue-lite[/b] first, incremental second [i](even if that is a stretch).[/i] You start a run, pick temporary stat boosts along the way, die/escape, buy permanent stat upgrades, repeat. Main gameplay loop felt interesting early on, but later it just became very stale and monotonous, going after same upgrades over and over. [i]I tried Hades once, i dont know how i managed to get 100% completion, i felt very exhausted by the end of that game, never doing that again.[/i] The schtick of this game is with its "[b]inscriptions[/b]" mechanic. Random symbols may appear during your run, which are actually letter combinations which form a word and need to be written in the game's hub, and upon entering/activating the word, it will provide a [b]modifier[/b] for the run. It can be a buff, …