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.

Sad to negatively review this as it was passionately recommended to me by a friend.
Started out well by building up the story, but then very quickly lost me with the never changing loop and sweat-lord game play.

Pros:
- Pixel art is always lovely to see
- Never a shortage of skulls to pick up and their designs are delightful (Beserker my love)
- The enemies and NPCs have unique designs (big fan of Arachne's design)
- The base story you start with is compelling
- Lotta lotta cats come to stay at your castle thanks to the witch. Love it. They're cute

Cons:
- Skulls you upgrade never remain that way. They will reset to their base from (the weakest) if you pick up another mid-level, or if you finish the level/die and start over. Should REALLY allow you to maintain your progress, as collecting the bones to upgrade each one is PAINFUL
- There are no check points. If you manage to beat a boss, congrats! If you die after that boss, you have to start ALL over again. It's exhausting to go through from the start to end in one fell swoop
- RNG items and skull drops mean you might not make it out of the first boss should you roll terrible items
- No healing unless an item you pick up allows it. No potions unless you beat an area mini boss, and some of them are downright impossible with terrible RNG rolled items
- Game play loop is...Literally a loop. It's dull, stale and never changes. You unlock the "Dark Mirror" after you beat the gauntlet once, but it barely changes anything and just makes it harder and harder with each level
- Enemies can do some pretty bullsh*t things. Stuns? Are you kidding? In a game with no healing?
- It's HARD. As in: "Smash your controller" hard
- The grind to upgrade your damage/crit/defense etc is STUPID high and not that enjoyable

This game has lovely pixel art, amazing music and the story you start out with genuinely made me do a double take (because I'm dumb and didn't put 2 and 2 together to make 4), however it's going to sit in an incomplete state forever in my steam library simply because it's too repetitive and grows old fast with the crap some enemies dish out.
Might return to this game in the future if I feel up to giving it another shot, but unlikely.

I do not enjoy try-hard, sweaty games that force you to "git gud", when getting "gud" should be an optional to enhance the game play for the individual.
Sometimes I wonder if the devs bothered to play test their WHOLE game, or just added scaling difficulty at the end without bothering to try it out themselves.

Not a game for me at all, but it might be for you. Give it a try if you think it's up your alley.

Roguelike with a LOT of variety. Highly recommended