I have beat the game to the current final boss and would highly recommend you try it. It's a super interesting take on the roguelike genre. You don't progress by buying character upgrades but by doing multiple runs to get better weapons, armor, and other gear, leveling them up, and finding the best oil combinations for that gun. it's the first of its kind—a single-player extraction shooter mixed with a roguelike. The extraction shooter take puts pressure on you that makes you always pay attention because you can lose your hard-earned weapons, which may have taken multiple runs to find the perfect combination of oils. it sucks to die but that only makes the effort to make a weapon that absolutely wrecks house all the better. On top of that, I think the art style is super fun even though it does cause some bugs with enemies phasing through the floor. it is an indie studio, so you gotta cut them some slack and it doesn't harm the gameplay that much. Really couldn't recommend it enough and I can't wait for the rest of the game.

Howdy to both Devs and gamers who might take the time to read this! I'm really enjoying Sulfur and think it's EASILY worth the price tag, but I had a few notes I'd like to share about what I'd personally do with the game if I was in the drivers seat, before 1.0 release comes out. So, take these notes with a grain of salt, and don't look at them as a GRR DO THIS OR ELSE, more of a suggestion box I'm stuffing full by myself.

-Explosion Augment should destroy breakable walls, period.

-Using a caliber kit should change recoil DRASTICALLY. My Corpsemaker shouldn't have the same recoil from 5.56 to 50cal or 12g, shot to shot.

-50 cal ammo shouldn't be 6 per box, make it 15 or something reasonable PLEASE

-Thank you for letting me repair multiple gear pieces at once, but I feel that a "REPAIR ALL" button with a price on it would be a much faster, easier, better addition.

-Let people use barrels with silencers, if they install a barrel first. You can limit which ones, like making not-all-silencers work with the 6" barrel. I feel the downside on Speed is already not worth using most barrels that aren't 6 inch and the decision to take -10% speed for 0.25 spread extra and NO sound suppression is NUTS.

-Have some more extreme effects on oils. You can get weird with it. No one is taking -40% recoil and -25% movespeed when you have a -25% recoil oil or whatever already. A lot of them feel almost entirely useless right now, but I feel this could be fixed with DRASTIC upswings to both negative and positive effects. It would make some oils only situationally useless rather than completely useless. It would be really fun to see some ♥♥♥♥ like "+100% damage, -100% recoil, -50% spread while in water" or "+50 damage for 3 seconds after breaking an object". I'd love to see some really weird oils that make me fundamentally change how I play. Bullet bounces feel weak right now. WALK EASY OIL AND REGULAR RECYCLE OIL SHOULDN'T JUST HAVE THE SAME -15% WHEN ONE HAS A DOWNSIDE!!

-I'd love to see some items like a Personal Cooker that lets you cook in a 2x2 from inventory and takes up 2x2 slots. Or some armor that gives you extra inventory space. Or some armor that gives "immunity to effects" instead of just resistance to their typing?

-Change the EXP system; knowing you can get a weapon to 5 right now just running Caves over and over is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring (and yes I know I do it to myself, but come on). Caves should stop giving EXP at Level 2-3. Town should stop at 4-5, etc. Make the upper limit on leveling higher (7 levels??), but make higher-area enemies give more EXP (they might already but it feels so negligible that grinding Caves is just -the way to go-)

-MAKE IT SO WE CAN SKIP SEEING THE WISE OLD WOMAN (WITCH) IN CAVES EVERY TIME WE CHARGE AMULET. I cannot ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stand having to do "the sequence" every time I charge amulet in Caves it is SO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ TEDIOUS AND BORING.

-Explain what weapons can have mods better, without having to have the mod and the weapon both in Inventory. It's incredibly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lame to know my Energy weapon can't equip a barrel mod AFTER I've bought the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mod and the weapon.

-If you want inventory size to matter, you should add something like the Resourceful Rat from Enter the Gungeon.

-Make crafting recipes save to memory. Crafting the same recipe again should tell you what you're crafting. Add a (???) outcome on crafting if you've not crafted an item before.

-ADD AT-A-GLANCE SELL VALUES TO ITEMS. I don't care if you have to leave out Charisma calculations or whatnot, I should always know generally what my items will sell to a vendor for

-Give us better information! How much damage does Poison do, and for how long? How much extra damage do frozen enemies take? How much damage does explosion do? What is the multiplier on a crit? What happens if we go over 100% crit? What are the odds on Rooting an enemy? I didn't understand the gibbing/organ looting mechanic for 20 hours of playing without looking it up first!

-Fix some old bugs and visual bugs; being under the water in certain rooms in Caves causes the floor-under-water texture to bug out. The room before Miniboss in Caves always has an enemy clipped inside of a wall, every single time. Having extra jump height in water can cause you to FLING up into the air sometimes, and other times can clip you inside of walls. Using Poison gum while being poisoned causes the poison to extend to the duration of the gum for some reason??

-If you don't want to put any of this IN the game, update the Wiki for your players. It gets too extreme trying to parse out all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ myself.

I'll try to edit this review should any of this get added, but the game is an easy recommendation for me at the moment!

Edit 1: I hope the framerate issues in Dungeon and Town get sorted out :c

Edit 2: Ok Green-buff enemies that spawn another enemy on death need to chill and stop putting dudes under the floor that can shoot out of the floor at you

+good style
+good core gameplay loop
-terrible late game decision: have to run through a stupid maze to get to presumably pre last sector(dungeon), then have to get through that in its entirety to get to presumably last sector (castle), this is massively tiring.
-terrible game design decision: apparently the cave dungeon will just start spawning absolutely OP and unkillable robots in a small confined space when u have progressed in the game. this will catch you completely off guard as they were never there before when running that dungeon. this will cause you to lose all your ♥♥♥♥ when u were just trying to farm up for the late game content mentioned above.
-terrible frame drops

I kinda understand the positive reviews but i get the sense those people havent played the game too much. It gets bad the more you play. shame really, great potential ruined by some sloppy game design decisions.