Ampersat

Very interesting game, worth a try and will keep you entertained for a good few hours at least.

amm cam play this game for a change . and there a cards!

Ampersat is a game that takes some inspiration from old dungeon crawler games such as Rogue and Moria, but its just not fun. The presentation of the game is rather ugly. Everything is made out from voxels to simulate a kind of "3D pixel art" and these never look good. The game has a very ugly color pallet, all dungeons are mostly one solid bright color. The second dungeon is entirely made of a red color so bright that my eyes took time to readjust after I closed the game, where all colors had a different shade. Quite literally, the game gave me colorblindness for a few minutes. In the music department, its just as bad. All the music in the game is a few short loops with very repetitive instruments. You can only go so far hearing the same "DOOT doot DOOT doot" sequence before losing your mind. All other sounds are bit crushed beeps. Also, this game has very bad audio positioning. I thought my headset was broken, because I was hearing spawner sounds from the opposite direction they were. I even checked my sound settings, but no, the game really has reversed spatial audio. Under all that bad presentation and horrible sounds, you have a... very boring twin-stick shooter. Left click shoots, right click swipes the melee. You can do a particular move where you destroy your weapon to do area damage, but WHY would you do that? You can find different projectiles and melee as random drops, but aside some stat variables, they don't seem to change the gameplay much. I found a poison cloud attack in the first dungeon that carried me nearly to the end of the game, where I bought a slightly better attack from the store. The biggest challenges in this game are enemies pilling up and status effects. I managed to play the game without dying up to the last floor of the ice tower, where an enemy froze me and then I got ganked by a dozen enemies. As long you avoid getting a status effect, combat is simply circling around shooting, letting go the shoot button now and then so your magic doesn't overheats. Which is a terrible mechanic, as the overheat bar cleans so fast (99% to 0% in half a second) that it literally makes no difference in your firerate. Enemies come in three types, wander aimlessly, run towards you and melee, stay far away and shoot. The last ones are the most annoying, even more when they start to strafe dodge. The game has a lot of random equipment, and every piece has so many stats that its hard to describe something as "better". One thing I noticed, is that all equipment is unique and if you don't sell them, they don't drop again. That way you can just hold stuff until the godly equipment eventually drops. There are a bunch of level perks, but as long as you pick the health regen first, you are pretty much settled for the entire game. You do 5 dungeons, then do 5 towers, then you fight a very lame boss... and you win. All that in 5-ish hours. Yeah, I really didn't like it.