Amy Hates Robots

What a lovely little run and gun! This is an enjoyable little rogue like platformer.

This one caught my eye a few months ago and I'm glad I circled back! If you're a roguelike / roguelite fan, give this a spin. It's a familiar formula with some flavors mixed in I've never seen before. For example, after passing a room you select one of 3 random abilities to augment your run each with a trigger condition and effect (like you've come to expect). BUT Amy Hates Robots mixes up the formula by letting you swap around abilities and trigger conditions. So you unlock "when airborn, shield depletes slower" but a few rooms later you unlock "when shield is deployed, move faster". You can pop open your inventory an reconfigure the shield depletion perk to trigger when the shield is deployed as well. This unlocks a lot of freedom to experiment and stack abilities with triggers that morph a bland build into something OP. That type of creative build swapping leans more towards what I saw in Clair Obscure, not what I was anticipating to find in a roguelite. :-D Especially since it doesn't punish you for experimentation. There are plenty of enemies with unique behaviors to keep you on your toes dashing, double jumping, wall climbing, and firing away in all direction to clear the room. Definitely some unique layouts as well. It's not all just a block maze. I think I just tumbled through a bar chart on my last run. Immediate Mitchells vs the Machine vibes with something that tugs my heart strings for that Brave Little Toaster scene where the apartment appliances turn on them and start dancing before throwing them out the window. It's got quirks, but its cheap, its fun, its got style, its got builds, incremental meta, actual characters, and a printer that's kicked my butt twice now. It's a good time.

Ok, this game is SHOCKINGLY addictive. We just couldn't RESIST! Every time we'd get TOASTED, we locked back in and SHREDDED some more. The characters were a BIT more witty than the average. The intensity just FANNED the flames of our enthusiasm. This game is a real STAPLE of our library. ....ok, we'll see ourselves out. It's really fun, though. Seriously. Don't SLEEP on it. Ok, we're really done now.

Produced by a solo dev, Amy Hates Robots is a frantic roguelite that definitely has a "you'll need to git gud" aspect to it. Although there are a lot of different controls / actions you have to balance together, the game doesn't feel unfair to play - it's horde shooting with platforming and wall jumping - it's worth a look.

This game is fun! About 2.5h and 1.25 areas in as I write this review. A foundation of simple action mixed with a solid upgrade system and a quirky, slightly-dark sense of humor and worldbuilding. The potential for exploiting the system is huge. HUGE. Play it if you like shooty-shoot action-platforming and finding your edge in the system.

I've been waiting for this one for a while! Great action, the music is catchy and doesn't suffer from overplay fatigue, and the art and story (at least what I've seen of the story so far) are well-done and humorous. Lots of clever little jokes and puns everywhere. Everywhere. Including the setting screens. There are a ridiculous number of abilities and guns to get, plus an overworld that shows progress (an appreciated add since the demo). I'm still regaining my side-shooter reflexes so I'm glad to see controller support *and* an assist mode. Yep, I'm one of those gamers. Sue me. Looks gorgeous everywhere, definitely a lot of care has gone into making it look good. Good thing because it's going to take me a while to get through it.

A really fun game, with a lot to it. It has parts that remind me of classic arcade games, but it’s very unique. I like the art style, it really fits well. And the music is perfect. It has a good, well thought out story, with a lot of humor. Don’t miss the background posters. You can play through down different paths, which gives it good depth. And you get upgrades after each room that you beat, and there seems to be so many different kinds of them, the game seems different every time you play. Seems really polished and well designed. I definitely recommend it.