Astebros

A 2023 Genesis / Megadrive game... a roguelite, with gorgeous pixelart, randomized dungeon layouts, 3 classes to choose from, bossfights and a sweet progression system. Likely one of the best entries for SEGA's 16 bit machine that you will find. Do I recommend it... hell yeah! It has polish, it has style and is alot of fun to play. The game comes with the rom file, so you can simply play it on any emu or device you fancy. Hidden Gem for sure. Hope to see more from Neofid.

When I bought this game during sales, I played for a little while and then dismissed it because I didn't really get it and seemed too difficult. Then I started it again, it finally clicked and I really enjoyed it! It's a roguelite platformer starring three characters that control in the same way but have different abilities and kinds of weapons. Seems quite hard at first, but once you master the dodge, double jump, understand how things work, and that you can unlock more enhancements the more bosses you beat, it becomes much more manageable. The only slightly annoying thing is to repeat levels over and over again to gain materials in order to craft new weapons, but it's not necessary to craft all the weapons you come across, unless you want to get 100% completion, and some weapons are much better than others anyway. It also takes me back to a time when you had to experiment, since nothing is explained besides a few comments from the NPC: there's no manual or guides and you'll have to learn what the various treasures, curses and weapon abilities do (I still don't know what the various spells of the Oracle do). My suggestion is to save money to buy permanent energy upgrades at …

The concept is great and the art is fantastic. I really wanted to love the game but the reason I wouldn't recommend this is that I just don't find the game satisfying and intuitive to play. It's leaning very hard into old school hardcore action games where it's very easy to get damaged and very difficult to damage. The game has attack animations but that doesn't really matter because if you touch the enemy at all, you'll get damaged anyway. Attacks also come extremely quick. The difficulty in this game is very knowledge-based. It's very easy to dodge attacks if you already know how they're gonna come. Otherwise enemy attacks are almost undodgeable. The disconnect between giving the player fast movement, a dodge button, a parry button but the attacks can't be dodged unless you already know how the attack's gonna come makes the action unsatisfying to play. So which is it really? Is the game supposed to be action-based or is it knowledge-based? Good action games have a good balance between the two, but here the pendulum swung completely on the knowledge side. I feel like I'm playing an arcade game trying to rob me of all my tokens. Yeah, I could just play as the Ranger and make th…

A modern feeling rogue-like for my favourite childhood console. The game is a grand old time. I didn't get to try the coop feature but the game holds on its own in singleplayer. Also, the Steam purchase comes with a ROM that you can load onto a flashcart.

Game is determined more by which weapon appears at the start of the level rather than your skill. Spending time to purchase a weapon that might be able to use seems dumb. also last level is glitchy af. died alot because of that.

Forced CRT-Screen. No options to get a clean 4:3 Screen without the stupid effect. All Screenshots here are NOT from the actual Steam-Version of the game. They are from another emulator.