Ballmancy

This game came out today and I thought "looks fun, let's try it". The base line concept is the same you would expect from the steam page - and I like it. Trying out the different balls was quite some fun. But now onto the section why I don't think I can recommend this game: - The core loop is the same. Always. Same balls, same enemies, same upgrades. There is too low variety. - There is no "high roll". Usually the fun comes from combining different components to get an unfair "OP" strategy to one-shot bosses or similar. In this game, there is not even any strategy or synergies. Some note for the dev: I didn't play for a long time, because it got boring after some time. I beat the game with the base character (didn't get the achievement btw, maybe a bug?) but after that, there is no perspective. It's just "go again". I unlocked the next character which just say "more hp, less speed" or "less hp, more speed". If this is all, this is no incentive to play. I would love to see truly unique abilities. Maybe different sets of balls? About the balls: it needs more variety. After one 5 minute run I have seen them all, understood them all and in the second run just maxed out the chicken ball first (by far the strongest) and won. And for potential future runs, it would just be rinse and repeat. Another thing to think about: After each boss, there is an easy pause to ass some new variable to make runs more unique. Maybe a shop with item introducing gold or something as a new currency or maybe flat stat upgrades, idk. Last but not least, probably the most important step: synergies. A game like this does not work without synergies. For example merging balls into upgraded ones would offer more variety. Also elemental effects like ice or fire could interact and have some effect to the enemies. I don't know what your idea with this game is/was, but the potential is good, it feels cute, but it is missing a lot to become the addicting "Bullet Heaven" it aspires to be.