Eldritch

It's a neat little roguelike, though I do reccommend the game its far from perfect. The first few times you play I think its a fantastic experience, stealthing around enemies collecting artifacts and finding new spells and items to mess around with and try out. Where it starts falling short is in terms of replay, the enemy behaviour is very basic and incredibly easy to get around after you understand it, making the game less so a stealthy exploration roguelike and more of a mad-dash to the end avoiding almost everything, as a lot of the mechanics are half-baked and very surface level. Overall good game, it's a good experience i find myself going back to once in a while, but, I would definetly not buy again for full price.

Surprisingly fun procedurally generated dungeon crawling. The creepy and bizarre enemies balance comedy with horror. The low life and harsh death penalties do make for tense scary gameplay but also make deaths feel cheap.

This is a game I wish I could forget.. just so I could experience it for the first time again. It has such a neat vibe and even years after I played it, I still think about it occasionally. Since you're always on the lookout for monsters, the atmosphere kinda sucks you in. Definitely give this one a try, especially if you like HP Lovecraft!

been playing this off and on since it came out half my real world life ago and while it can be a little *too* mean sometimes its a surprisingly compelling yet easy to pick up time

Eldritch is a surprisingly solid first-person roguelike that does a lot with its deliberately crude, voxel-style visuals — don't let the Minecraft aesthetic fool you into writing it off. The Lovecraftian atmosphere is genuinely well-crafted, with tense dungeon crawling, great ambient music, and recognizable creatures like Shoggoths and Deep Ones that actually feel threatening despite the low-poly presentation. The stealth mechanics, destructible terrain, and breakneck movement speed give you real creative freedom in how you approach each run, and the procedurally generated levels keep things fresh enough to justify multiple attempts. Permadeath can sting hard after a long run, and the game is on the shorter side, but the challenge feels mostly fair and the replay value is solid, especially with the free expansions that have been added over the years. If you pick it up on sale — and it goes on sale cheap — it's an easy recommendation for anyone who enjoys roguelikes or Lovecraft.

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