Oh my god, no.
This is a buggy mess.
I'll list the bugs I've found in my play and from checking the community forums:
There's a plinko machine (The thing where you drop the balls down the top, they bounce off the pegs and hit the scores at the bottom) the bar for that gets bigger as you pick up little purple orbs. It eventually stretches across your screen. It's not supposed to.
The values at the bottom. 3X 4X 5X 4X 3X are supposed to increase with various talents. They only increase a couple times, then just stop bothering.
The game does not save for everyone... this is a major one, you have to get all the achievements in one go if that's what you're doing. Every time you close and open the game, you will have to start over. The game did save for me. But for a lot of people on the forums, it doesn't save.
Sometimes common enemies join the bosses. They're not supposed to. They also join the vault enemies. Again, not supposed to.
The notification to upgrade your weapons doesn't go away once they're all fully upgraded.
You can still buy skill points even when you have all the skills.
For some people on the forums, achievements don't work, I didn't have this issue myself, but be warned, that's also a possible thing. The usual fix for broken achievements on a steam game is to close and re-open the game, but as mentioned before... that's a really bad idea.
These are all bugs... This is before I get into just how boring the game itself is.
The game involves a weapon bouncing off the sides of the screen, something you'll want to turn off the effects for in the options fairly quickly, because as you get more of these, it's visually vexing. You move your cursor over the various enemies and they get hit by the weapons.
You do get blue circles that automate this for you... but don't go thinking this game then becomes an idle game, no, you're not so lucky. You have to wake up the blue circles by mousing over them and they only last a short time.
There are skill trees and weapon upgrades and upgrades for your circles. The game does have plenty of upgrades. The main issue is that a lot of upgrades are useless. For instance, you can increase how many iron bars drop.... but iron bars are only useful for the first two weapons, and once they're maxed they're never useful ever again. This is the same for every other bar.
Once you finally get to the end of the game and beat the last boss, the game shows you some basic statistics. Some of which are irrelevant because of course you have 4 relics, that's the maximum you can equip... And only offers you one choice.... Quit.
No keep playing (Why would you want to I guess? Even the developer knows you want to stop playing.) No endless mode, nope... Just quit. Quit and uninstall I suppose.
I did manage to get all the achievements... Which is a good thing, but unfortunately for some people, some achievements don't work. So this game is not worth your time if you want it for the game, or for the achievements.
This game is never worth anyones time or money.
Also... seriously? £5?! That's a lot of money for this utter wank. But even if it were on a 99% off sale, it still wouldn't be worth it. It's broken, it's terrible, it's a waste of time. And not in a good way.
It's a shame, it's a fun idea and if done well it could've been a good game.... it just isn't.
Thanks for reading, or skipping to the end.
Have a lovely day. <3
