Godstone

Godstone, a game ive been wating for years as i've held up contact with the developer himself and witnessed the development of the game firsthand now finally releases in Early Access. Did it hold up to my expectations? In short, yes definetly yet it is inperfect in some areas as expected from a Early Access release. So first up, what is the gameplay loop like: When you boot the game up you get a short and sweet intro explaining a tad bit of lore to you followed up by a Prologue showing the relationships between factions and some individual characters. Once having beaten the Prologue you are released to the game itself and its the tried and tested roguelike gameloop. You go in, get OP and kill the (current) final boss but the game spices things up by allowing quick detoures which in a grand scheme of things enables upgrades for future runs like for instance the Well which gives the player a quick refresher after a few rooms. During your venture in the Palathian ruins you will unlock different sorcerers which all have a differing preferred playstyle. The bosses; all of the em are unique to eachother not a single doubling concept here (Highlights are the prologue boss and the final boss!). On top of the gameplayloop, the game dons an extremely polished look making an homage to older RPG having this semi-realistic style to it. The Music aswell has been pleasant too.

Reviving the frogs by petting them is peak gaming.

The controller support was made by aliens, as in creatures from another planet. Attack is left bumper by default. Inventory is the X button (Square for PS controllers, which is the game's default button layout, despite the ubiquity of Xinput controllers on the market and in the PC gaming community). Jump is up on the left analog stick and A is interact. Incredible amount of jank. I noped out.

I really enjoy the concept of this game as its like a souls like, and has less rogue like elements. I would say the dodging and movement should be overhauled as it feels clunky I understand this is early access which is exactly why this kind of feedback is important especially with a smaller more niche game and developer, who if they were looking for help with developing something i'd love to give more feedback once I've played a bit more. Overall: Pros -Soundtrack -Art -Story Elements Cons -Clunky movement (No Omni-directional dashing is pretty big flaw in my opinion and the character feels super slow a speed up might help since I feel like im slogging around. bigger areas to compensate for a more dynamic movement structure.). -The audio could use some tweaking to sound less in the background and more in my ears that's the only way I can explain it. -Lack of polish (this is early access so I expect it will receive it Eg. teleport door transition sprites and animations.). -Combat doesn't impact as much as it should, it feels like I hit an enemy and there is no real reaction and I feel like my sword swings or magic should feel like I'm making an impact on these monsters/enemies.

Underrated gem of a dungeon-crawler!! Stunning pixel art, ambient soundtrack, and great story. Absolutely in love with the skill system! I keep wanting to do a run without magic to see how it affects the story - but I'm just too tempted by sorcery lol.. So many secrets and paths. And frogs to pet. Defs worth playing! Hoping for controller support eventually

pretty good

Cute Lil game, very fun. Waiting for controller support :)

Fun game with pixel art that at times can be straight up breathtaking. Also, I noticed you can pet the frogs!

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A Roguelite with a lot of potential. Beautiful pixel art and some pretty fun gameplay that almost reminds me a bit of Magicite if any of you remember that game. I would love to see more polishing overall as the game can feel a little bit janky at times with things like alt+tabbing not being possible sometimes, the exit game button not working intermittently and the game running at 30fps capped, but these are all things that can be fixed with time. I would definitely recommend to keep your eye on this game as the developer seems very passionate about it and has definitely built a really solid foundation to work upon here throughout the games early access period.