Wildkeepers Rising

[b]WILDKEEPERS RISING[/b], is a very chaotic survivors-like where every mechanics clashes with one another. Every session on this game felt frustrating, whether it be the Luigi physics having you retain most momentum from moving, and having to accelerate up to speed, or the incredibly tanking mobs at higher difficulties that feel impossible to kill even with all meta upgrades, and a solid understanding on how to powerscale in these types of games. The concept and lore is actually really unique but the gameplay absolutely lets it down. Instead of you becoming the weapon, you upgrade your beasts to damage and move on their own. Which leads to many many scenarios where they ditch you do die and do their own thing in another corner of the map. The gear and meta upgrade system also feel quite unrewarding, especially for what you have to sacrifice to get the currency to level them. On top of all that, the hitboxes and visual clarity are horrendous with enemies damaging you from so far away. [b]PROS[/b]: - Unique gameplay - Lots of areas to build and minimax - Great beast diversity [b]CONS[/b]: - Extremely frustrating - Ice movememt ph…

This game has a huge structural flaw and it will probably never be worth it as long as its true. The pokemon you catch that are your weapons can die they come back to life but they have a not insignifigant cooldown/death timer. So as the difficulty of the game ramps up on the stage and your animals run around and die you become weaker. Idk that just really makes it feel like a slog.

Excellent concept to expand the Roguelite genre. Party based combat is the future.

Great concept! I love creature collectors and roguelikes, but sadly this game is too undercooked. Monsters balancing is very off. Some monsters can scale to solo the entire map easily. Others have minimal effect from early to lategame and are only useful for activating equipment effects. And others are completely useless since they get will not follow you and get left behind fighting respawning mobs. Equipment is not exciting. The large majority is "deal X damage in a melee/projectile/line/cross/area every Y seconds", usefulness is directly related to monster stats. The remaining few range from expectedly overpowered (make a full copy of your monster) to impractical (buff monsters in a small area, i.e. only usable if you directly build a monster for range enhancement). Monster interaction is minimal. For example, you can burn/freeze/weaken enemies, but almost none of the monsters have any special characteristics to get additional benefits. So you just end up building direct damage and only use status effects as a binary "just get some source of weakness". Side note, there are no legendary rare monsters you build your team around, no monster fusions or evolutions, and I *think* …

This was my first foray into this type of game and now I'm a big fan of them. I can see why they are addicting as you're always trying to build yourself into a God walking. I love that it's a creature collector as I prefer that type when it comes to these games. Great stuff.

A decent mix of a hub-based action RPG and top-down survivors-like gameplay, I'd recommend if you're into survivors-like games and looking for something new. I Like Nipper.