Echoes of the Abyss

More of these types of games please!!! It’s perfect in that it’s not perfect. It’s chaotic and keeps you engaged at all times. It’s simple, but hard to master. Gameplay Loop The overall gameplay loop is quite simple – you go into the world, you destroy oceanic life (or it’s in your imagination, not quite clear actually) and level up, while seeking for crates and chests to receive a random elemental power. Then you end up at a boss fight, kill the boss, and here we go again. If you die, you start over. You can eat enemies that are smaller than you. The sizes are often hard to eye-measure, this is the downside of the gameplay. But smaller enemies are highlighted with golden light, and bigger enemies are highlighted with red light. Abilities You can level up your size, you max health, speed, elemental resistances and your max stress level. You have 3 abilities that go on cooldown: Shield, Dash Shockwave. The strategic element of the game is when you choose the upgrades for those those 3 abilities. The game wants you to actively look for elemental upgrades in the world around you. You can find Fire, Frost, Electricity, Toxicity and Gravity–based Upgrades. And then you can enhance yo…

Gameplay is quite easy to pick up, sound design is good, artstyle is charming but some visuals are a bit wonky though. It is def a cool game to play for 20-40min in the evening. You enter, give it a go, die a couple times and unwind.

Bought Echoes of the Abyss after discovering the developer’s Youtube channel. You can see there was a lot of heart put into the game. I love it and I hate it at the same time. It’s really HARD sometimes!!! It’s quite charming, but did it have to be hard? I thought it would be a breeze and a calm cake-walk. Love that dev make updates and fixes small bugs. Loved the intriguing story. Still haven’t finished it yet, but I really want to. It is really reminiscent of old games, quirks and all.

It’s a very interesting and quite creative concept. The world is hypnotic. I loved it, loved searching the world for sweet-sweet upgrades. The gameplay has different layers unfolding with a little bit of time. It’s simple at first, but becomes trickier the further you play. You die a lot in this game, especially in the beginning. You sink into it, so you sometimes forget to look at icons and Bam! you’re dead already. It has its issues, not a perfect game, but a very charming one. It’s fast, it’s engaging, it’s quite short. It’s a good game to unwind for a bit.

Quite addictive. If you like Rain World, it gives similar vibes, but much simpler. You feel unsafe and quite fragile at first. But when you power-up, boy it becomes more like Vampire Survivors. So, this feeling worthless at first and feeling overpower at the end – this is what does it for me

A fever dream of a game, and I loooove it!!! If you are born in mid-2000, it will touch your heart. It brings up the inner child in me. It pushes just the right buttons. The gameplay is simple and complicated at the same time. The basic gameplay is quite straight forward, but to progress deeper in the game, you’d have to learn more mechanics of elemental powers. But when you learn this, boy it becomes addictive as hell.