Crab Champions

I'm giving it a positive review, as there are a lot of good things and the base is great. The theme is unique (🦀🦀). The soundtrack is obviously a banger. The graphics are nice and colorful. The moment-to-moment gameplay is awesome with the movement feeling very very good (sliding, flips). The cosmetics system is nice and I like the fact that you can unlock anything in-game However, for me, the game struggles the most with the replay value, and I think this is crucial for roguelikes. You are stuck with one loadout during the run (weapon, skill, melee). Most weapons feel very similar - they just differ in mag size, fire rate, damage, but functionally they are all basically, well, guns. And this wouldn't be much of an issue if we had, let's say, multiple weapons during a run. Maybe with evolutions or some other merge system. Additionally, the perks you find during a run are a bit boring - they are mostly just "deal #% more damage, but with reduced fire rate" or "deal #% more damage, but bullets zig-zag", or a lot of low-% triggers like "you have 3% chance to fire additional shotgun bullets". Most of those upgrades feel like boring stat increases. Besides that, even though the island and enemies look cool, after 3 hours of gameplay, they are getting repetitive So after I finish a run, I don't have an itch to start another, because the weapon I'll pick will feel similar to the one I just played with, I already know the environment and the monsters and they will be exactly the same again, and the perks I'll pick during the new run won't really affect my gameplay - I will do more damage, but I won't even notice a difference in how I play I'll be definitely checking out the game after an update