Demoniaca: Everlasting Night

Another example of when what at first sight might look like a distinctive looking potential indy gem in a tried and true genre is ruined when the actual gameplay of the game is an active impediment to actually playing the darn thing.

What is a game but a miserable pile of bad decisions...such an odd game...it just fails at what makes a game fun. The platforming starts out frustrating and settles into tedious... The combat "looks" cool but just feels...off...and encourages avoidance... There is no true sense of progressing. It just feels like you're pushing further while spinning your wheels at the same time. Equipping stat boosting items quickly falls into irrelevance once you realize that inventory management becomes a chore...the game gives you limited inventory then gluts you with middling items that sometimes literally materialize in your path...then tasks you with grinding them into dust ONE BY ONE to make room and to create a different type of currency to buy questionably better items... It's actually difficult to properly describe what makes playing this game...tedious? Best way I can put it is...you will be traveling along hitting every jump and somehow almost zen like hitting enemies...you were not even looking to attack...then one odd miscalculated jump will lead to you bonking around platforms and enemies whiffing hits, jumps and falling the entirety of a vertical shaft like area ending up being p…

A rather specific game with an incomprehensible plot, old-school, pixelated graphics, amazing musical accompaniment and, of course, it is worth noting the hardcore of this game. So if you have strong nerves, can definitely play)))

Pretty cool, not very fun. I'd still pay these devs any day over buying AAA slop like bloodlines 2

Works great on Steam Deck although the default layout takes some getting used to, and can be customized in-game if you dont like the default. A decent Metroidvania game with light brawler/fighter mechanics and a just-okay 2nd player experience that elevate it from the mediocre story and repetitive exploration. If you havent played Symphony of the Night, try that first and come back to this game if you love that genre and want to explore Metroidvanias further.

Demoniaca Through dark halls and deadly foes Night never will end