Rogue Voltage

Rough. Very rough. Not as in hard, but I just beat 3 games in a row only to die to a boss literally on their last leg that keeps moving you to its own next timeslot and always hits both heroes and always goes first. So yeah, "press play to lose". I hope this is a gross oversight, but either way, it's not exactly inspiring confidence. Especially because you can't anticipate it, the game is designed in a fashion that the moment you can even spot the problem, you're ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Bad design, dumb joke or horrible oversight? Don't know, don't care, the game is out a while and the fact that this happens due to the way ONE hero is designed leaves me with the feeling that there was ♥♥♥♥ all testing. Shame, could've been a lot better. I also have to wonder what the hell is going on with the achievements and/or the reviews. How can I be under the 1,7% of players that have a building that you can literally unlock in 3 runs, even if you fail them halfway through? I have zero idea what the hell is happening here, but unless steam is showing me absolute bogus stats with these achievements, there is something incredibly strange going on. Apparently there is some sort of bugged achievements going arou…

I took a risk because it looked interesting, and [b]I'm glad i did.[/b] This game is kind-of a mashup between Lonestar and Backpack Hero - in the right ways. 9/10 Some turns, you will have it wired how you want and simply hit the on switch. Other turns, you will move connections around to activate different things, or maybe hold a button that lets you pick each module to activate - so you can make some crazy combo based on the order happen. There are lots of sensors that react to things happening, storage modules, color changing, combining or splitting, guns, slow rays, speed boosters, etc. And fights have an active display for turn order, where you can do things like make an enemy's turn land on a volcano fissure (or speed or slow yourself so you don't). Most important factor: runs are fun and interesting. It advertises as a rogue-like, but starts out as a rogue-lite (my preference), that I can see will finish out around early-mid game to become a pure rogue-like. Very approachable on beginner difficulty, you can make mistakes, survive and remedy the situation, and expect to win if you don't severely mess up. And you can minor power fantasy if things go well. Higher di…

It's a deckbuilder except your deck is a rack of the weirdest modular synth patches. Rogue Voltage is a really weird fish, but there's a gem of a game here waiting to be found. It can feel finicky at first, and late into a run when your rack gets full of esoteric modules that daisy-chain combos across different racks, it can look overwhelming, but once you learn to read the rack, it's fabulous.

A solid addition to the roguelike genera. Winning isn’t quite as hard as some other games, and there’s not too much in the way of variety between runs (most events are the same, for example) but it ends up being fun regardless. The wire system allows for interesting combos in each run and a level of skill expression once you learn how to manipulate the order of triggers to maximize the energy received from sensors, or mitigate the downsides of some of the more powerful modules. Content is introduced in a reasonable manner, it’ll take somewhere around 15-20 games to get most stuff unlocked, depending on how aggressively you produce plasma. Overall a good game, well worth the $16 price tag.

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This is a really exceptional game. If you like Slay the Spire, with a little MTG, and building fun logic machines, this game is for you. The progression is smooth and when you get a really crazy run you feel like a genius. 10/10