Echoes of Red

Okay yeah, this one’s a keeper. I’ve played way too many bullet heavens at this point and honestly wasn’t expecting much going in, but this thing just grabbed me and didn’t let go. Few hours later I’m still going “okay one more run.” The art style alone sets it apart, it actually looks like its own game instead of the usual asset-flip soup this genre gets flooded with. Still totally readable even when there’s 500 enemies on screen and everything’s exploding. Builds are where it really shines though. Some of the synergies you stumble into are just stupid (in a good way), one run I basically deleted the entire screen every few seconds and couldn’t stop laughing. No two runs play the same. Soundtrack slaps too, not gonna lie it’s doing a lot of heavy lifting for the pacing. I have played this exclusively on Steamdeck and it just works, controller support out of the box, runs great. Dev’s clearly paying attention too, patches have been coming out fast and actually address stuff people are asking for. If you liked Vampire Survivors, Brotato, Halls of Torment etc, just get this one. Easy 9/10, no notes.

Graphics and art style is great and the balancing is done very well. A great game to chill with for an hour or two and with how many choices of abilities and modifiers there are, no two runs feel the same even after unlocking everything and you can create some absurd builds, sometimes by mistake. The dev is also extremely active with fixing bugs, making new content and interacting with the playerbase; this game is worth every penny and more at full price.

havent finished the game yet but its fire so farr

well rounded!

its a ok game but i still love it!

Nice way to "waste" your time. Have a run or two or 10, type of a game. Fun to play already and more updates are coming. BIG + because dev listens what players want :)