Dungeon Watchers

Dungeon Watchers delivers nothing new or innovative, but it's cute, plays well and costs less than a beer at your favourite pub (mileage may vary). If you're into Survivors-likes in any way, shape or form, don't hesitate to get it. [spoiler]It might be Early Access and 'abandoned' by the dev, but who cares? In its current state, it could just as well be considered feature-complete.[/spoiler]

I randomly found a free game named "Fiend Heart", played it for a while, and thought the graphics were quite cute. So when I found out that the developer made another game in the bullet hell genre, with the same aesthetic and a low price, I soon bought it. It's a simple, little game, not too many innovations but does well what it does, I appreciate that the various characters are mostly different mechanically and that the dev is willing to tweak it and add more content. Waiting for when it comes out of early access!

Cute little game

Pros - Fun - Rewarding - There is a bit of strategy when it comes to choose the power up each level - Cute art style - Costs not a lot (3,89$CAD / $3USD) - Fast paced - 20 mins build up before fighting the boss (30 mins games max) - Frida offering a difficult challenge by her weak stats (high crits and mobility to compensate) - Upgrade to boosts caracter's stats Cons - Lacks of maps (only 3) - Lacks of caracters (compensated by their playstyle, each one forces you to play a certain way) For the price, it's clearly worth it I hope there will be updates in the future

Cool game !

A somewhat barebones top-down shooter lacking usability improvements common in other works, like the ability to reroll or banish upgrades. A broad skill selection, most of which are bad, and a broad character selection with the rare quality that the expensive later-unlocked characters are worse than the first two free ones. Requires strategy in spell selection: except for the characters with an amazing primary (Zelvy's bombs, Selene's aura), you need to pick a fair few spells to clear the area around your character (except Luna, who can outlevel everyone else, and Vesta, who can infinitely dash away). Magma Floor and Ice Bullets can clear the area, and Chain Lightning can kill anything getting too close, which nicely covers all the elements. From there, I picked a path clearer (Daggers) and Fire Nova to clear the screen every few seconds. Overall, I liked that it required this, even if some characters were particularly annoying (Iris pollutes the upgrade pool with two separate upgrades for her primary, and both are bad: low damage, low fire rate, the lasers often miss completely). Luna and Zelvy remain the standouts, and I thought Zelvy was the most fun. Reminded me a bit of Pesticide Not Required.