GODBREAKERS

no updates will come out anymore as the company shut down but still is selling the game for $19.99

[b]TLDR - Tentative. Don't buy above $5 or $10 and only if you want to experience coop with friends. Solo you can have fun with the combat and working your way through the worlds and bosses, but do not expect any proper roguelike here. It's non-existent.[/b] I was a bit late to the party on this one, but that apparently doesn't matter considering the game studio 'To The Sky' has dissolved and no longer exists. However, I can see how they made a good foundation for what they had intended to build upon. Unfortunately it didn't meet the success needed to continue updates. Knowing what happened to the devs before I started playing gave a lot more context to what otherwise would've felt like empty or lacking. That said - the combat is great with lots of interaction. It reminds you of the 00s games like God of War, Dantes Inferno, and others like it in terms of attacks, combos, diving, jumping, and etc. On top of that is the 'godbreak' ability in which you essentially steal an ability of any enemy and can use it once. It's pretty cool and satisfying stealing an enemies annoying ability to kill them with it. All in all, don't get it at full price ($20). After just under an hour of playing I understood the gameplay loops and how little depth there is. The only meta progression in here is account-wide upgrades that are extremely expensive. I did two complete runs and only got 5 currency. There are 3 tiers of upgrades, each requiring a concurrent total spent to unlock the next tier. Tier 2 requires 90 currency. The majority of each upgrade in tier 1 costs 10 currency. Some are 5 and some are 20. You can see the level of grind you need to get just through tier 1. I have no idea how much currency and time tier 2 and 3 would cost. There are several classes each with their own move sets and abilities. You start with 2 and unlock the rest through completion challenges in the game. The runs are pretty short before you hit the miniboss and then the final boss. You'll get some equippable upgrades a long the way, but they feel disjointed. I largely ignored them because there was no synergy to be found. The story shouldn't have 'roguelike' at all because it doesn't properly match that. The only roguelike mechanics here are the way in which levels are structured and a very, very expensive global upgrade system. All things considered if you want to do the upgrades you're going to be hitting a wall that'll leave you frustrated due to poor economy and missing game mechanics that were to come in later updates. That said - approach this like an old action combat game and you'll have fun. But not for more than $10 considering how incomplete the game is. +Very fluid and fun combat +Pleasing aesthetic +Smooth performance +Satisfying abilities +Coop capable +You progress up a pyramid like level structure with different worlds (levels) and bosses on each +/-Bosses have actual move sets that expand as their HP goes down. However some of the fights feel spongey as if to timegate or pad the overall time you'll need to spend beating them; further increasing the odds of dying and restarting a run. -Healing is way too restricted -No class skill trees -Very low synergy between in-run drops equippables -There's a merchant in runs? Seemed useless -I have no idea what's going on in the story and these people won't stop talking to me. I don't care. -More condescending females that are against the player and humanity and don't stop yapping -Some interactable objects in game that tells you 'coming in a later update'