Witchcraft Survivors

So I’ve put over 20 hours into this game, and I’m missing all but the last Achievement, which isn’t hard to get if you’re willing to grind for it. The problem is that the game is pretty dull compared to a lot of other action roguelikes and I had to power myself through just to get THIS far, and I can’t bring myself to spend a dozen more hours replaying the dessert level to keeping buying power ups to let you eventually bulldoze your way through the final stage. I already did that for the Forest, and would rather just play something fun that be a completionist. The problem is that until the forest, Witchcraft Survivors is shockingly easy. I went through the game without dying for the first time until the Cavern levels which is the third to last stage in the game. You can check when I finally earned the trophies for X number of deaths compared to beating stages in my history if you want. Whereas with something like Deep Rock or Vampires survivors and a specific set of weapons and experience spent on power ups will get you through a level, you still will expect to die as you meander through the stages. Not so with Witchcraft. It’s pretty easy to figure out what each playable charac…

A very good Survivor Bullet Heaven with several characters who all use their own theme skill sets. Meta progress is deep both by characters and common upgrades. Good feedback on hits and great massacre on battlefield. A must have for the genre lovers. Recommended!

A very mediocre "Survivorslike" game. It stays very true to the original formula - you don't get to aim or anything, it just fires off your bullets. It's a typical example for a "neutral" recommondation. You only get 6 chars in total, all of them themed around one element (fire, water, dark, etc). It doesn't have the split between "weapons" and "passives" like Vampire Survivors has - you can have all passives in your skill bar (except the first slot, which is your starting weapon). Also, it seems to be totally random, which three offers you get at level-up. Your success depends heavily on the level-up choices you get (at least past the first map). If you happen to get 3 or 4 levels on your first weapon, it's much easier than if you didn't get any at all. On later maps this means that you either get to level your first weapon on the first 8 levels (or so), or you die invariably. Since there are around 30 different skills and the selection seems to be truly random, you will have very few successful attempts in the game. There are basically 3 different main currencies - character experience, gold and achievements. Certain things only get unlocked after you got a certain number of a…

I hope when I use necromancy to resurrect my cat it also murders me and turns me into a lich.

The 5 characters you can unlock in a reasonable time share about 90% of their weapons if you don't count changing the color from orange to blue as a different thing; these weapons even within the same character often overlap each other pretty hard and feel redundant. Music is very repetitive. A lot of unlocks are grindy and uninspired. Despite the price being low, what is here is honestly underwhelming even for that.

Fun survivors-like. Relatively simple, so don't expect to sink 100s of hours into it. It does have enough stages with a variety of playstyles that it doesn't get boring. All of the stages have variable difficulties and there are infinite upgrades, though they do scale in price. So if you want to say that you not only beat the game, but mastered it, it would probably take quite a bit longer.