Skull Horde

Claims to be a dungeon crawler, but more like a survival game that forces you to move around. There's a lack of depth and the progress is way too slow.

Skull horde is a good-quality game accompanied by a few pain points. What the game succeeds at most is actually making you feel like you are in command of a undead skeleton-soldier army while cleaving through floors of enemies, progressively becoming stronger & larger in the size of your horde. Both the build variety & quantity is great with the vast majority of builds being viable, unit variety is also sufficient and the rate inwhich you unlock new units as you go keeps the game feeling relatively fresh for awhile. The progressive difficulty timer is also done well and if you don't like that type of play there is a set "explorer" mode. For additional positives, I also have to say i greatly appreciate the level of work put into the art for the game. Not only does it look good but not cutting corners in our current age and actually making a full on good-looking pixel-art game deserves alot of appreciation. (and even if the music is generic sounding, thanks for making it Metal-inspired). For the flaws, there's not much but the flaws that do exist are noticeable. Mainly, the differing skulls aren't all that interesting with some like The Many & Garg just being outright boring to p…

Great little game, love having a spare hour and 4 hours later....

IDK why I am seeing all these "Eh, it's mid" reviews. This is a top tier rogue lite for the price and what it delivers. The point is not to get a new level, the point is to try out new builds, experiment with different units, and have fun. I enjoyed the point. The music is also incredibly satisfying haha. I usually turn off the music in my rogue lites but this thing gets me hyped to go smesh with my skelly army. The game system is pretty unique so make sure you pay attention to how you build your army and oaths. Go play the demo for free and it's easy to understand why this is so dope.

Decent idle game to play while bored between something like classes or job breaks on a steamdeck, despite the audio bugs and text issues on there. You just have to remember what everything does. More importantly: great game overall. Always wanted a Vampire Survivors-like game focused on necromancy/summoning. Shout outs to Wan for gifting it.

It's a decent game. The music, sound design, voice acting, and art style are all very unique and really give this game it's potential. After that, the things like the actual gameplay start to falter. You essentially run around rooms looking for upgrades and random rolling to hopefully get them--Classic roguelike--but what's missing is the build variety. Sure, new characters give new build variety via their skills, but then I'm just walking into a new dungeon with the exact expectation of what build I'm after. It's missing that real **core** concept of good roguelikes where I can become anything with the first roll of the game. Which is why I only played 16 hours of it, BUT those 16 hours were lots of fun. Once I saw all of the builds I couldn't be bothered to complete any more of it. Definitely worth it on sale.