Recent reviews by Uncle Ho

A dungeon-crawl roguelite with semi-randomized guns and very strong furries. The game is visually and mechanically quite simple but the movement and gunplay are fluid, and having up to 4 player co-op is always fun. The game has a lot of content to find and unlock, from new guns and characters, to new powers and scrolls that augment your character in a run.

The main pain points for me on this game are the early and late game runs, as this game employs a roguelite skill tree that you level between runs. Early upgrades are mostly just bonus stats, making them a bore yet also necessary since you are significantly weaker without them. Past this point though, when your skill tree is semi-complete and you have all the characters, the game is a blast with runs being dynamic and each character and weapon feeling unique.

Then the late/ultra late difficulty levels come in. The game has 4-ish difficulties, wtih the fourth one "Reincarnation" having 7 sub-difficulties and a bunch of unique game changes, standard roguelike stuff. But the main difficulty addition for this mode is that enemies just have bigger numbers, while it still is a roguelike. This means that some runs you can get a combination of character/weapon/scrolls that don't contribute to you having the stats to win a run. It's not impossible but the game feels like it grinds to a halt when enemies take a full 3-4 clips to kill.

Overall the game is fun for a long time and I still enjoy playing it (which is why I still recommend it), but it takes a lot of design cues from the Borderlands series, for better and worse.

Game good, more detailed review at some time. High recommend.

Lets you live out your dream of leading state-sanctioned child soldiers to battle vaguely Russian witches. Oh, and also there's a cute dog.

It good.

Rat Fever: The Game

Sometimes you are sheep, sometimes you are wall. Great and innovative puzzles and is a good way to spend your spare time.

Easily one of the most deep and replayable rouge-lite games. Quick, flowing movement and combat along with a large spellbook of (mostly) interesting arcana that interact with each other and items in really weird and awesome ways. The game is cheap too, so there's no reason not to pick it up.

An addicting brawler that is well balanced and very fun. The games characters are all unique in how they play and synergize so differently, yet nobody feels over or underpowered. Skill with a character matters so much as well as basic positioning and strategy that makes this game a blast to play alone or with friends. Matches only last for around 6 minutes at most, so the salt only flows for so long.

Overall, A/*

(Also they memed on EA pretty hard so...)

Let me settle something first that sometimes confuses people looking at the tags on Steam. The first tag is "Rogue-like", the second is "RPG". This is not a traditional "learn as you go on a mighty quest" kind of RPG game, it is a rougue-like. You will learn as you die. You have one life (or multiple on Adventure mode) and will thus have to be tactical and smart with the decisions you make.

Now, getting with the review, this is a fantastic game that i highly recommend you try if you are a ROGUE-LIKE fan, not a traditional RPG fan. The game doesn't bring miscellaneous lose conditions to discourage and hinder you like other games in the genre (Damn hunger meters). This is not to say that the game is a cakewalk, rather it is far from it. The game expects you to die and to learn from it, take the time to analyze why you took 30% of your health in one shot, check the game log, inspect enemy monsters before you rush in so you can take them on effectively.

The game has excellent replayability, due to the diversity of races and classes as well as random dungeons and alternate layouts. Different races and classes also start in different areas and have slightly differing dungeons available, allowing for even more content that you may have not known was there in the first place. This, along with random loot that can have a wide variety of effects leads to the player enjoying exploring the world and tackling rare monsters.

Even more content can be unlocked with the Arena and Infinite modes that can be obtained once you get to a certain point in the Campaign (both are fairly early). Arena mode lets you pick a race and class and lets you test your skill against a 30 or 60 wave gauntlet. Infinite places you in an infinite dungeon where you explore and try to survive for as long as you can.

Overall, this game is a fun challenge for anyone who has the patience to see when to run and when to fight as well as the ability to say "I just spent 10 hours on a character and he/she died. That's fine, let's see where we went wrong and try again." And for those who read the negative reviews and saw "i ran into a wall of lvl 20 guys at lvl 1, game is unbalaced", they ran into a event (which you can avoid and come back to later) where you open a locked door and fight high leveled enemies for better loot. It's a high risk high reward area, and if you don't think you can do it, don't.

TLDR: If you have the patience to realise you made a mistake and analyze it, and you enjoy rougue-likes, this is a good game. You will die, a lot. This is part of the game. It is wonderful and has replayability like no other. Also, don't open sealed doors unless you are ready to fight high level guys who will kill you if you don't know what you're doing.

Dear Firaxis,

Pls stop take my money.

-Aegis