LUCKROT

Luckrot is a fun but short roguelike shooter that nails its opening hours and fades a bit before the credits roll. The core shooting and movement is the highlight. It's fast paced and satisfying to move through, and the wave scaling holds up well, getting properly chaotic by the end of a run. There's a decent handful of weapons on offer, though I quickly gravitated toward a couple that fit my playstyle and mostly stuck with them. The gambling mechanic is fun in the moment but doesn't hold up over repeat runs. It's not unfair, that's just how gambling works, you lose more often than you win. The bigger issue is that runs start feeling samey regardless of what you gamble into, because the rooms and enemy placements aren't randomized. Only the upgrades change, so every run follows the same basic sequence underneath. The livestream gameshow framing is a great hook early on, but it never asks anything of you. I stopped paying attention to it entirely after a while. It would've landed a lot better if it was something I actually had to react to during runs rather than just background flavor. Regular enemy variety is solid for the small roster on offer. The three boss fights ar…

Not a bad way to spend a few hours

very fun game just a bit short, would love to see more added to it

https://youtu.be/ZGk6HvvSlLU Limited upgrade selections and extra layers of randomness in earning them makes it hard to feel the impact of choices over the long run.

too many bugs

In short, this is a No for me but hopefully in the future it will be positive. Game is extremely buggy, if i had paid anymore then $1 for this game i would be upset. Multiple of the abilities are bugged dual wield makes me stand in place while shooting (bug or feature?) same with fireball. Grapple hook makes me float with no way of getting back down. Also for a movement game quite a few areas where i would get stuck on a wall, some of the abilities seem to be momentum based like the void jump so getting stuck causes you to teleport in place. Sometimes quests would not count such as kill x amount of creatures and no matter how many I kill x would not go up. Long range shots seemed impossible to hit on targets even some that where not moving, turning off camera sway fixed this. I really wanted to like this game, big fan of movement shooters & gambling, but in its current state just bad.