Matthew PraterAug 26, 2019Free to playView on Steam ↗

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Surviving is the least of your worries. After your cargo ship crashes on a foreign planet, not only will you have to find a way to eat, you'll have to survive the terrors of your fear and stress. Roguelite platforming gameplay will keep you frequently choosing weapon and suit upgrades to best defeat your many demons.

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444

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93%

9.3/10

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Hello, my name is Wordsworth and I narrate this game.

This rogue-like is full of great, fast paced action strategy and horrible, stomach quivering smells. You might pee green for a while. You’ll start playing to see what can happen but you’ll keep coming back to hear me talk about it all.

The tale I have for you is of a heroic, although pungent lad who crash lands on a foreign planet while on a cargo mission through deep space. He needs your help to survive until his rescue ship arrives.

Finding food will be the simple part, because the stress of surviving alone manifests as hallucinations of deadly demons. You’ll need to help the lad deal with his past to overcome his demons and get home.

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Combat will butt-slap you hard and fast (I heard you like that) with a huge variety of nasty demons to duel. I give each demon a nasty nickname, too.

Besides me, the sexiest part of the ordeal are suit and weapon upgrades. Upgrades unlock almost as fast as catching space diarrhea and each unlock is an exercise in choosing key strategy.

Randomly generated dungeons are fresh and clean every run, while also being dirty and dank as dungeons should be.

The Music is a kinky romance between retro ear sensations and dance tracks that only handsome people listen to. The best part is that each track is randomly generated and given a loving title by me.

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Recommended4h played4 found helpfulAug 2019

Fun game, worth the 9 or 10 dollars IMO. Simple in concept with classic side-scrolling run and gun action. Simple in concept, but not so simple to master. Combat is a test of recognizing enemies on the fly and quickly reacting to the way they attack (jump over X enemy to avoid their grab, run under Y enemy's jump attack, then avoid Z enemy's projectile, then sneak in some damage of your own). To that end, there is a good variety of enemies. As you go, you'll collect upgrades, of which you can have 3 activated at once. This allows for variety of builds and play styles between playthroughs. Once you've collected some good upgrades and good consumables, then you challenge the final boss (you can fight the final boss right at the start, but you'll get stomped).

Recommended1h played3 found helpfulAug 2019

Pros: +Rogue-like setting gives it different obstacles each time. +Combat is basically like Megaman, if you've played Megaman before. It's a run+shoot combat style, avoiding enemy hits while trying to shoot them yourself. +Suit upgrades give you a tangible sense of progression. +Final boss is available from the get-go, like Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. Likewise, the difficulty of the final boss depends on your progression. The more enemies you beat in the game, the easier the final boss becomes. +Puzzles in the temple are simple but interesting to figure out. At least, in my opinion. +Enemy names are funny, especially when you realize that they are named after the MC's various fears. +Speedrun friendly. All that matters is beating the final boss, so getting the right strat to find the right resources might be a good idea. + enemy designs are nice. Cons: -Wordsworth, your robot companion/tutorial agent, can speak over himself if you select different descriptions of an item at the same time. This makes the audio design feel clunky. -In my opinion, the lightsaber character is the easiest because you don't have to worry about spacing as much as the other characters. With lightsaber dude, it's pretty much about hitting them and phasing through them each time. Not to mention airborne enemies are much easier to hit with the lightsaber timing. -The suit upgrade system only allows you to use 3 upgrades at a time, but all upgrades are accessible to switch to by pausing the game, deselecting a currently used upgrade, and selecting an unused upgrade. Tedious switching of upgrades and kind of makes you OP in many circumstances. This could be fixed if switching upgrades puts your switch time on a cooldown, so you have to wait a while to switch again. -Some suit upgrades are CLEARLY better than others. And some even negate the need for certain actions in the game. For example, once you get the self-heal upgrade, eating food becomes obsolete for the most part because health is counted the same as hunger. Another upgrade, metal head, causes damage to enemies if you purposefully hurt yourself on them. This goes against the core mechanic of staying alive in the game. -Very short game. There is a time limit in the game after all. If you don't beat it within that time limit, you die and have to start over again. -The pause menu during the character select screen is practically invisible because there is no contrast between the text and the background. -Some suit upgrades/food/juice/items have text descriptions yet others have voice descriptions by Wordsworth. There is no consistency in the item descriptions. -There is no option to exit the game from the pause menu. You have to exit out of the window to exit out of the game. SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER: =This game has no music besides the ones that you can play in the tablet in-game. When you exit the tablet, the music automatically stops. The main music is ambient sounds in the game. =The story is eh. You are stranded on a planet to face your fears. Somehow it manifested itself, Celeste style, and you have to fight it. You win if you beat it. But there is no incentive to care about your character besides the fact that some of his fears (as named by the enemies) are relatable.

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