Very impressive horror-roguelike. Like it.

TL;DR - game that seems to be Silent Hill inspired with very grotesque world, but put togheter in such a ramshackle way it can be bordeline unplayable if you don't play it very specific way or get unlucky.


An abstract macabre horror game about a guy (presumably writer) losing his partner, who's refered to as She, and trying to get her back from silent hill-esque hell called The Meat.

This game has an amazing, very specific style that should speak to fans of more obscure horrors. Everything in this realm, no matter how it looks, is made out of meat. This includes your weapons, which you can eat to recover health (keep in mind though that if the weapon has any special effect, like poison, that effect will get applied to you), enemies are flesh monsters that either build themselves from parts snagged from their prey or mimic random objects to ambush (meaning you). Even walls can be broken if some explosives go off, stripping concrete or wallpaper or whatever they were covered with, revealing flesh underneath. The Meat itself is also an entity that contantly throws jabs or random comments at whatever you're doing at the moment.

After a short introductory level you end up in the overworld, called The Eternal Field It's a hub area that contains several elevators, each going further deep into the hell through biomes of increasing difficulty like Gut Corridors, Meat Factory etc. You're free to explore this area around, being able to find multiple points of interest that can help you out on your adventure.
The point of the game is to beat the boss of every biome, which gives you She's body part that you can add to a totem in the graveyard in overworld. Every floor of the Meat has an elevator that goes deeper, but it's locked by a number of locks, for each of which you need to find a separate key hidden somewhere on the floor. On the floors you can find "mementos" (which are basically perks ranging from very helpful, through useless to outright harmful to you), throwable/consumable items that have different effects every run (in the same vein pills from TBoI do) and things you can use as weapons that have limited durability and can break, but in case of ranged weapons also need ammo to function. Ranged weaponry especially can be found with random mutation on it, like Tommy Gun with three barrels and poison damage on it (though sadly it's super rare as I found only one weapon like this).
Going through the floors can be either approached stealthily, trying to not bring any attention to yourself while avoiding the traps, or you can instead go in throwing punches all over the place gathering gold pieces from dead enemies to buy some stuff in the overworld. However if you decide to do it this way the game is gonna punish you, because primarily most enemies will follow noises made by the player and killing soemthing is sure to make a ruckus, but secondarily The Meat doesn't like you misbehaving and will grow more agitated at you the more enemies you kill, causing it to spawn increasingly more enemies that are increasingly more agressive towards you. When the anger level goes to "I hate you" the game continuously spawns 8 enemies in close vicinity to you every few seconds, and those enemies are already alerted of your presence. The same also happens when you pick up the last key in the floor and you need to leg it towards the elevator hoping to make it without dying.
And this is where the game starts falling apart. It advertises itself as a roguelike. The only elements of this that are actually in the game is that you lose everything (aside from gold) when you die and levels are 100% randomly generated from random corridor pieces strung together and random objects peppers throuough them. Going back to the biome after you die respawns you back at the floor you died at, meaning you don't lose your progress, but on the other hand thank god for that due to how the game works in practice. Every floor has some traps that are specific to it, be it manhole covers that have mandibles shooting out of them, ribbed openings in flesh walls that start freaking out occasionally shredding everything in the area, doors that open and rake at you with a dozen of arms etc. And spawning enemies will randomly wander around the stage, possibly triggering those traps. The traps hits and possibly even kill said enemies. It causes noise. More enemies zone in towards the noise and possibly start blindly attacking other enemies. The reputation with Meat worsens, even if it's not you directly killing the stuff. Some enemies release gas on death that applies negative status to everything around (poison, gold hunger, bone shiver, you name it). This gas fills the room and all neighbouring rooms, causing other enemies to start taking damage, and go into frenzy, causing even more of chaos. And it all can happen without you lifting a finger as soon as you exit the elevator to this floor, basically dooming your chances to go through the floor in one piece. This game pretty much requires you to be stealthy and have a route planned out to the elevator when you find the last key, or there's no chance you can make it out, and even then you can be screwed over by random chaos.
But it doesn't matter for two reasons. One is that, again, when you respawn in overworld and go back to the specific biome you start on the same floor again. Second is that you can wander around the overworld for as long as you like, and random stuff will literally spawn around you, including weapons, ammo for those weapons and other items, meaning that you can descend back into The Meat kitted out as much as you were previously (if not more) if you give it enough time just wandering around the Fields, but watch out for mushroom guys running around that cna steal those items from you. On top of that there's an NPC in there that you can pay gold to get a random memento, so if you get lucky and snatch as many gold pieces as you can before dying you can easily buy out every memento the game has to offer for the next attempt.

I absolutely love the idea and look of the game, but too many things can go wrong at the same time due to how free-handed the random generation of the game is, plus at least half the time you're gonna feel completely lost whether it's down in the Meat or in overworld looking for the next biome. Also any form of progression and progress loss can be mitigated if you just wander around the Fields for long enough or throw enough gold at the problem. If you want some statistics - only about 20% of people who played the game killed the first boss, while every other boss achievement was completedy by less than 10% of players (bosses appear every 3 floors and killing them is completely optional, but most the time they will be a major obstacle that's better to dispatch of, plus doing so gives you extremely strong weapons). Only ~1% of players got achievements for reaching endings.

achievements for coop with no coop in the game...

Item decay might be the worst mechanic to ever be introduced you can only use each item 3 times or 20 for the tommy gun tho than you can't use it anymore.

I really wanted to like this delusional game, with exploring different parts of a hangover broken dream; but when the game decide it's more useful to just stab yourself and die...

Than i'm convinced it's more of a middle finger to the player.

Like the demo they made in rose of meat was absolutely excellent!

But this one is more or a ... repeat do repeat mixed with different enemies that can mimic as objects let us make it even worse by limiting what you can fight with.

i really hope this is just a demo and not the final product