Two Rings: Vanquish and Bloom

Had a great time trying the game out, will be playing again soon!

A unique and stylish game that has novel gameplay ideas regarding the space you play on and the way you fight. Music is very good as well :>. A very impressive project!

What a great game! I think there is a lot of potential in this gameplay loop, with this sort of spleef x bullet hell. I really believe this concept could excel as a rougelike with branching powerups with a gungeon style loop. Otherwise, I really didn't enjoy the enemy design, they all felt a litle samey. Beside that though I only have positives! First, the art direction is nothing short of incredible, and I really enjoyed the final boss. It showed what this game could be in a fully fleshed out direction. The story presentation was really unique, both being able to be skipped or slowly seen through text. The music was also wonderful. Again with a longer dev time and focused vision, I can genuinely see this becoming it's own genre in the bullet hell space. Really great game! I am 100 percent looking forward to more!!!

Please consider playing this game. The replayability is crazy good, and I found myself spending hours trying to climb the leaderboards and get all the achievements.

Two Rings: Vanquish and Bloom is a compact isometric action-adventure that makes a strong impression through an unusual relationship between combat, environmental destruction, and restoration. Developed by DREAmwIN and published by DigiPen Institute of Technology, it carries the focused scale of a student project while introducing ideas that feel distinctive enough to stand apart from more conventional arena-based action games. Instead of treating the battlefield as a static backdrop, the game makes the environment an active part of both offense and survival. Players take control of Tua, an orphaned teenager who discovers that her origins are connected to the heavens. Her journey takes her upward through divine realms where celestial guardians stand in her way. The narrative is relatively straightforward, serving primarily as a framework for the action rather than dominating the experience with lengthy exposition. Even so, the themes surrounding creation, destruction, and heavenly power fit naturally with the mechanics, giving Tua's unusual abilities a meaningful place within the setting. The central mechanic revolves around two contrasting powers represented through Tua's hands.…

Game of the year edition when?