Tibia honest, it's hard to find a bone to pick with this game.

The characters are hip, the writing is humerus, and the NPC's are unique and interesting - despite being a skeleton crew.

Gameplay is definitely not bare-bones, surprisingly well fleshed out, despite a distinct lack of flesh. Some of the enemies are bone heads, though none got under my skin particularly.

This is a challenging 2D side-scrolling brawler in the vein of Dead Cells. No two runs are the same, so you won't be stuck on the first boss you encounter every time you reach that point. There are a variety of stats to manipulate and builds to discover. Each "skull" is unique, which will also make each adventure a new one.

Tried extremely hard to like this game but its just not worth it my biggest regret is that I played so much I can't refund it. To call this a rouge like would be disappointing to the genre this game is difficult and not in a fun way. What I mean by that is instead of learning from your deaths most of them feel cheap. Like it was completely unavoidable I am by no means bad at difficult games growing up on souls like entries such as blood borne each death I knew exactly what I did wrong and how to fix it. This game on the other hand almost every death feels like the game decided I should die instead of me just playing bad. The skill tree which you unlock doesn't even feel rewarding instead feeling like these upgrades should instead be given to you at the start making you feel EVEN MORE under powered than at the start of other rouge likes such as Hades. In Hades I was able to beat the entire game with no problem with only one extra life and Hades allows up to 3. At almost 10 hours in this game I am only just now starting to feel like my character isn't under powered anymore. The other problem I have with this game is definitely the skull mechanic. It can be probably my favorite mechanic in any souls like, but other times it just feels like it was implanted wrong. Bones are way too scarce to get and the difference in rarity between skulls is absolutely beyond what it should be If I can beat a 32 testament Hades 2 run with little only common blessings but struggle to even fight the first boss with a common skull how is that balanced? You will spend run after run just praying you get a legendary and when you get one amazing! The game feels playable now! But that short dopamine rush quickly leaves just as fast because if you even get decently far with that legendary this game is a ROUGE LIKE, by the time you enjoy that your already on your next run which is just so disappointing. I tried to like this game and at times loves it but due to the severe imbalance in it I cannot recommend it.