Dead Ink

Tough to recommend. Bit of a niche game to be honest. Still a little rough around the edges, but a nice concept for the genre. High difficulty curve, lots of repetition to advance because you will die often just trying to figure out how to fall right. Combat is reasonably tight and responsive. The gimmick is ink instead of souls, and you and any items you unlock, can be reprinted at any printer you have visited and deposited enough ink into. Interesting evolution on the genre, imo. Not sure yet what happens if you run out of ink entirely, it could easily happen but I am only half an hour in. *EDIT "I decided to find out what happens. Your game is dead if you run out ink. No matter how far your progress. It's over. You can delete your save, it is useless. THIS IS A VERY BAD MECHANIC, VERY NEARLY COMPELLED ME TO CHANGE TO NOT RECOMMEND. I was really hoping there was some kind of mechanic where you could at least print your avatar again even if only from the first printer...but no. Also, the nature of the game play is VERY Vertigo inducing. The camera only rotates from a static position above the player. No zoom in or out. The game is designed around verticality and is unique in that most games avoid making the player dizzy and sick to their stomach, but this game is like, nah... Vertigo schmertigo... Print you up a new stomach, no worries.... Also there seems to be a problem maintaining full screen in any other resolution other than native. And my biggest peeve, it seems there is no quit option. You have to kill yourself to exit the game. That is not a good idea. But I will apprehensively recommend the game because its worth checking out though it does still feel a bit "Early Access" not quite fully baked, (like roll dodge being painfully slow, doesn't feel good or look good) but there are lots of good ideas, a few bad, but for the price, if you can handle the vertigo, I say check it out. But if you are on a budget, I would say wait for a sale.