Devil Slayer - Raksasi

TLDR: This is an excellent, challenging, and unique dungeon-crawl roguelike with seriously impactful meta progression, satisfying combat, and phenomenal artwork (for everything, not just the heroines). Detailed Review: I think I rage-quit this game like 5 times the week after buying it, each time intending to write it off. After a few hours of trying, it just felt like enemies hit too hard, didn't always telegraph that well, and like none of the upgrades available to me were going to make things easier. But something about this game made me keep coming back. Between the fantastic art, and just the idea of this kind of combat in a dungeon-crawl roguelike, the thought that this game just wasn't for me didn't sit right. And I was absolutely correct, this game is great! Although the initial character and level upgrades were lackluster, the upgrades locked behind them were unexpectedly powerful. Unique character skills, easier key/gold management, adding absurdly powerful relics to the pool; once the meta progression was underway, the difficulty of the game finally made sense. I know that may sound ridiculously obvious, but the reason this didn't click with me earlier is because meta progression in this game is actually rather slow. But with time and practice, the core gameplay became satisfying enough that I didn't mind the grind. It did take a while though. My other main critique (besides the slow grind) is enemy telegraphing. Most enemies telegraph fine, but there are enough that don't that it stood out to me as an issue. Some attacks come out unfairly fast, with little to no warning, and some unblockable attacks don't display the warning symbol until the second before they strike, unlike most which display the symbol as soon as the attack starts. But, just like the grind, this friction eased enough with time and practice that I've come to terms with it by now. All in all, this has been an incredibly fun game, which I'm now working on 100%ing. Definitely deserves to be more than a "hidden" gem for the amount of effort and care that was clearly put into it. Really looking forward the sequel.