HellEscape

Loved Crimsonland. Loved Vampire Survivors. I've been happy they've blown up in popularity and still buy em whenever I see em if they have an okay rating. I have to say, this game has quickly become my favorite. It's very hard, painfully hard, sometimes it feels a bit unfair. Quit? Nah. Respawn. Try again. I think what I like about this one above the rest is the class/character options, and the fact they have such a wide assortment of moves (alot of games will recycle moves between classes) I've finally got almost all characters unlocked and I'm in like the 3rd world, so not even halfway yet, and I'm at 116 hours. I could tell you a bunch of other cool stuff, but I want to go play now I'm gonna cut this short. Just buy it mmk?

(Played on PC and Steamdeck) This game is all sorts of busted. I initially installed it on my steamdeck but it straight up doesn't work, so if you're getting it for steamdeck, don't. As for the PC, my pc can handle plenty of games and the amount of screen tearing and visual glitches in this game is wild. There are plenty of better options of this same genre.

Great game, very difficult, I like it! PLEASSSEEEEE devs PLEAAAASEEEEE make me able to enable cloud save, I lost all of my progress......

fUN BUT REALLY SLOW TO LEVEL UP;

Early game is unfairly hard until you at least unlock all speed upgrades (before that, the enemies are faster than you). Mid-game is OK. Late areas and missions are almost impossible, even with all permanent upgrades. Also, the characters are heavily unbalanced, with most of them being way too weak.

I really enjoy this game. However, as of right now it gets pretty laggy when there are a lot of creatures. The enemies can spawn on top of you making you die almost instantly. There also isn't a great visual indicator that you are being damaged. I play without sound sometimes and have now idea why i got hit. Last thing is the visuals. Many of the things in this game don't stand out enough to reasonably be avoided. For example the vine ability and the acid pools blend into each other causing me to walk through acid when i am walking through my own ability.

like most garlic-likes, except this game takes the novel approach of never really letting the player get powerful at any point. so if you like a lot of grind and never getting a payoff, oh man. this is your game it's possible that, at around hour 100, i'll have unlocked enough meta-progress so that i can move around the screen at a decent pace while also being able to kill more than one enemy every 10 seconds once i'm more than 5 minutes into a level, but i'm not really willing to find out it's still kind of fun before that realisation kicks in