DemonCrawl

Without this game I would have gone to the grave without actually learning how to properly play Minesweeper: (+) Roguelike; tons of unlockable content and features easily on par with Binding of Isaac+DLC (+) Music is surprisingly great and gets you pumped about playing Minesweeper for hours (- / +) Balancing; there are a lot of systems such as item favoring and crafting and profiles for your runs but it seems like it's almost TOO complex for how simple the gameplay ultimately is. It's not quite a negative but it does seem like an awful large amount of grinding for getting materials and you will never have enough money 99% of the time to make use of the crafting shops in a run (-) Game Crashing + Bugged Interactions; as of this year it seems like there was a patch that has stabilized the game a good amount but I just recently had something where my save data over a 5+ hour play session disappeared for no reason. (-) Mobile Version being a joke/unavailable; supposedly they are "planning to restart" the dev process but this is a huge disappointment as Demon Crawl is probably the only game I have ever truly considered to purchase on my phone All in all, this is a very addictive and fun indie game that has a lot of charm and seems like it will be getting a breath of fresh air in the future.

While the core game is fun, repeat crashes and consistent errors eventually soured my love for the game. You will find a tame sounding synergy that will brick the run. Lost my first save to a corrupted save cloud years ago but I started again anyway. Then the game failed to launch for a while and was only fixed recently after a long time of silence on Steam (Enough to warrant a removal from the storefront). We finally get an update fixing the launch issues and the launch of 2.0, only for my save to brick again. I consider this the final straw. Save yourself the trouble and look elsewhere.

I love the concept, but a combination of 80%+ of items being nigh useless, rampant 50/50s that can often one-shot you if you haven't been graced with half decent items (which we've established are few and far between) and stage modifiers that can quite literally remove your entire build on a whim or again, literally one-shot you, just makes playing this game an exercise in frustration. Almost forgot the omens, which can literally brick your run at any point depending on what you've got going on because you dared to want to collect items (or because the modifier for a stage just decided to give you a run-ruining omen.) My favourite parts of both minesweeper and roguelites are the skill expression (and wacky synergies,) but it seems like the devs value randomness way too much for my taste. You will pretty much never have a death that feels fair, and every time you'll basically be saying "damn, guess I should've just gotten better items" or "damn, I wish I didn't have to nail 4 50/50s on the third level with no decent items" or "wow I guess I should've just not gotten the stage mods that made me unable to use my magic items that helped mitigate the random bs and also literally just deleted my two most important items." Great concept, and feels really well made, but damn is it just not a fair or fun experience most of the time.

At least it runs now, but It's still an unstable mess of bugs and crashes. Every single daily quest and beyond quest I've played has crashed since the latest update. There are still multiple missing assets, some which cause crashes and some which just cause annoying errors and missing textures in-game. The Item Tree minigame is one of the easiest places to see this, as it still isn't working correctly. As much as I love this game, I can't in good conscience endorse buying this, even on sale. Avoid unless and until the dev has actually made the game stable. EDIT: Well, the dev is back to the same pattern as before: ignore the current bugs and introduce """fun""" new features which are horribly unbalanced and make the game perform worse. It looks worse, still doesn't have a colorblind mode, now noticeably lags when opening any menu (even with all of the animation effects disabled) and when attempting to generate the first level of a quest [i]and[/i] crashes when opening cells, but hey we have three mostly-usable classes (sarcasm)! I keep opening this game after updates, hoping that maybe this run will be fun and I won't run into any crashes, and I am disappointed every time.

The idea is fantastic but the execution isn't fully there, the game will run you into "unavoidable" guesses. a term used by the game. where you are forced to make a 50/50 decision and sometimes will instantly cause you to lose a run because the enemies you are attempting to flag will hit you for more than the HP you currently have. there's nothing you can do about this because the RNG didn't roll in your favor to give you items that would prevent you from taking as much damage so you just lose. i've tried multiple times to get through the game and have unlocked a few achievements. rather than unavoidable guesses the game should of done something different. it doesn't feel like a satisfying loss if i'm forced to take a 50/50 on it. it just sucks. its infuriating and even with less than 10+ hours it doesn't feel like the gameplay loop changes much. my entire save was reset and i had just had to restart from level 1, and i was hit with 3 "unavoidable" guesses on level 2-6 and i guess wrong on two of them and lost. if the unavoidable guesses were changed into something else i could probably find more enjoyment from the game but for it to literally boil down to guessing defeats the purpose of roguelike style games in general and leaves just a sour note behind because you didn't do anything wrong you just lost a coin toss. which again kinda defeats the idea behind roguelikes.

If you love minesweeper and roguelike elements with just a dash of pure utter chaos, this is the game for you. However fair warning, this game can get SO much chaos that it will crash at times. But one could argue the crashing from hundred effects happening at once is a good thing so I leave that up to you.

It's back! :D Now to wait for it to come back to mobile. Definitely one of my most played games on mobile until it started crashing upon launch.

It's rough around the edges, but when it's fun, it's *insanely* fun. If you like Minesweeper and you like roguelikes, this is a must-play. It still has its fair share of Minesweeper BS in it, but that's also what you're signing up for with a Minesweeper roguelike. Every run feels truly unique and there are a ton of systems that interact in super cool ways. When you get a god-run, you'll know it, and you won't ever want to stop playing. If you're looking for a roguelike that's entirely skill-dependent and one where you feel like you could've won every run, look elsewhere: if you're in for the long haul and don't mind an occasional run getting ripped from your hands from a bad stage modifier or missed 50/50, join the rest of us gamblers and pick this up.

no one told the musicians it's a minesweeper game. they didn't have to go that hard but i'm glad they did e: i have now hit the credits and corrected it to multiple musicians

one of my all-time favorite games no joke