Rogue Loops

Sorry about the gameplay time. Offline mode does not bother to track it as playtime: [h2]Let's Run In Circles![/h2] Rogue Loops throws you into a repetitive cycle: you run in circles, face a handful of bosses, die, talk to an NPC, get a new quest, and repeat. The gameplay is clearly inspired by Hades, but it lacks the same rewarding progression, where each run feels different than the last. There are four classes to choose from, eventually. At first, you’re stuck with the Son, who is decently powerful and balanced. The other family members (Father, Daughter, and Mother) unlock only after grinding through a set number of rooms. Sadly, the Daughter feels weak, the Father is painfully slow, and I haven’t even unlocked the Mother yet who uses magic. What really drags Rogue Loops down is its artificial sense of progression. Instead of letting you pick up multiple quests and work on them together, you’re forced to do them one at a time. This means intentionally ending runs early just to fulfill a quest requirement, which makes the grind feel unnecessarily padded. It left me constantly questioning: What’s the point? Why am I here, grinding for progress that doesn’t feel meaningful? I…

Lot of flaws and incomplete.

slick, fun hades-like with a really a cool stage structure mechanic that constantly escalates power and difficulty in a small space. combat is straightforward and solid, artstyle is fun, lot of promise. oh also upgrades may or may not work. like, the primary means of upgrading all characters might just, you know, not function. i am disappoint.

As many others have mentioned, this game is short and get it only if it's on sale. As a fan of Rouge-like/lite i found this game is meh, not bad but nothing to write home about. Found a few bugs in it as well and had to restart my run (thankfully didn't get any bugs on my save file).

[h1] 6/10 [/h1] Even a 6 is generous. Its a fun mix between a rogue lite and bullet hell, but dont expect any depth. though given, if you got it on sale for like 3-4 bucks, its worth it! Pros: - nice movement - decent balance - very nice artstyle - overall decent onboarding - interesting character/NPC designs - really cool skill and relic interactions! (appeals to the power fantasy) - runs absolutely fluently - dodge spam cons - very, VERY, limited room looping (four maps with 3 rooms each, never random) - very, VERY, limited room modifiers (it feels like 20 and you pretty much see the same 10 every level) - sometimes VERY wonky hitboxes (more for you hitting enemies than the other way around) - super unbalanced builds - gets grindy on the later levels - the difficulty is NOT worth it. i get consistently 800+ essence on a sub 20 min run, on normal. i dont need 30% "more" for like 3x the time. - some skill are completely broken/borked. 20% for a perfect room seems to be more like a 2x multiplier and the money wish doesnt seem to work at all. - dodge spam.. TLDR: i havent tried hades, but i think for like sub 4$ you cant go wrong with this one, if you want to scratch that "…

It's a buggy piece of s***. You respec, upgrades suddenly stop working, doesn't show the correct number of items you have, upgrading system is weird and not really explained, relics are totally unbalanced, and the more you unlock the less likely it is you get the ones you want for your build. On a positive note, the graphics are nice, combat feels good, but that's about it. The combat arenas, enemies and bosses get quite old pretty fast, not much variation. If you get it on sale to knock yourself out a couple of hours it's all right. But certainly leaves a lot to desire.