Pity Pit

[code][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33025671-Missi-the-Achievement-Huntress/] Please see my curator page for more games that are well worth your time[/url][/code] [H1]Game info:[/H1] This is a fun but, in my opinion, challenging action-adventure. You're a dwarf and your wife gets kidnapped by the devil. You have to save here by digging through the mines. This is challenging, because you can't take your time to plan ahead: the ceiling is coming down and you have to keep digging! There are also a lot of monsters in the mine and you only start with 2 health. You can buy health and bombs at the shop, so it is possible to get more than 2 health. There is also a forge where you can forge a stronger pickaxe or shovel. There is no save system in this game. Every time you die, you start at the first level again with 2 health and the basic pickaxe. [H1]Achievements info:[/H1] I did find most of the achievements challenging. Making 9 bombs required you to focus on the materials. Getting 9 health requires loads and loads of money and not getting hit much before you get to that 9 health. I've so far not been able to get that many hearts. Killing 30 enemies in one run is also d…

Some movement issues make avoiding damage fiddly, reducing the fun considerably.

I really tried to get into this, because of the cute "8-bittish" graphics and the basic idea that, despite the blurb of being a cross of [b]Dig Dug[/b] and [b]Downwell[/b], stands on its own: a platforming journey down through randomly generated levels, collecting as many materials and coins to spend or forge at the end of each level. Coins are best used to buy as many hearts as possible to enhance survival chances, while forging allows the player to craft more powerful tools to dig more squares of dirt at a time or break more robust blocks faster. Unfortunately the fun is severely marred by annoying collisions and enemies. You have to maneuver in tight spaces all the time, while contending with enemies that can be either struck horizontally, or downwards while jumping, the latter method being necessary for some of them, except sometimes they aren't hit properly, and quite often the space to jump and strike is very limited. Right from the beginning there are Pacman-like enemies: the yellow ones come up and then direct themselves towards the player, while the red ones follow the player to dig under their feet. Of course the red enemies are the most annoying but sometimes, especial…

It's ok, addictive enough and the price is correct. It makes you want to go further and there is room to improve your skills, although it's initially on the difficult side. Some enemies are really difficult, but then it's your job to find strategies against them, and it's always possible to go further. Some people would probably prefer it with a bit more meat on the bones, maybe as a roguelite because no progress is saved and you restart from zero on every playthrough. But it works like that too. Just take it for what it is, a small game. [h1](follow my curator page [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33882793/]GenXPlayers[/url] for more retro and indie reviews)[/h1]

This is such an fun game, you just want to keep on playing it. It gave me a slight Boulderdash vibe, even though its not like that. And I really loved to play Dig Dug, and this game got an nice old school feel to it. Its RNG based levels. Honestly I was suprised by how fun this game is, and how much replay value it has. I'm definetly going to play this game more

If you like retro gaming this game is for you. The video describes it perfectly and it's one of the "just one more time" game. The gameplay is solid and very polish. The only down is the time to wait when you die until the retry button appears (just a few seconds but I'm for the instant replay - ehi it's not that bad, just for me ). ^_^ Give it a try.