Sword of the Stars: The Pit

"A fun, fast, light-hearted..." That's a lie. It's hard and frustrating. The fast thing is how fast your run ends.

Very solid Traditional Rougelike with interestingly pretty good aesthetic presentation as far as this genre goes (Meaning, not going to blow you away but compared to other Traditional Rougelikes its practically the Mona Lisa) This game leans extremely hard to attrition and strategy as the core gameplay, you don't die from one unlucky event in this game you die because of hundreds of tiny poor and lazy decisions you made over the last 6 hours of gameplay that lead to you ending up in an unwinnable situation, a full game from start to finish assuming you win the run takes about 15-30 hours depending on how slow you play. The character roster gives a reasonably high amount of replayability due to the vastly different starting kits, although it can take a lot of experience with the game to really understand what differentiates many of them, some of them are very clearly just worse than others but in a way winning with the bad characters is its own challenge and there is usually a "good" variant for every bad character (E.G. The Hiver is just better than the Marine at being the Unga Bunga guy). As for how RNG this game is... on Easy/Normal if you die with 70% of the character cast it…

I'm torn between wanting to recommend this game and not, but I've played it a lot over the last two weeks. Since I couldn't put it down, it must mean I had fun. As with any roguelike, if you die, your game is over. Sadly, I had to change my review to negative because the crashes ruined a run on floor 40 for me, such that the game crashed, but it had saved where I was. This had happened several times during my playthrough. The only problem was that every time I loaded the game in that exact spot, it immediately crashed, thus ruining my run that I had almost finished with the Marine on Seriously!? difficulty. It took a lot of time to get there, so I was not happy. Good: You never know what you will encounter behind the next door or around the corner or from the next loot box. Around the corner could be an easy enemy that you kill quickly, and then you find a trap that you disarm and collect to make a grenade later. That next loot box could drop a better weapon than your current one. That next room could be a hospital room or mess hall, letting you heal up and get some food. Bad: You never know what you will encounter behind the next door or around the corner or from the ne…

if i wanted a crash course on how NOT to make a actually playable rougelike game i will call the devs

Roguelike halls descend A soldier fights through the pit Death resets the climb

nah