Heroes of Hammerwatch II

Its not QUITE up there with Heroes of Hammerwatch 1 yet... but its getting there, with the priest finally arriving.

Seems to be a nice little game with roguelike mechanics, town building, 7 classes with different skills/gamestyle, 7 biomes+bosses to progress, 3 dungeons+bosses (used to farm one specific resource), multiplayer, ... ... but it all fails because of: core issues: - it's very repeatable and grindy (experience) - experience is never aligned, you fall behind level of enemies, so you need to replay again and again to have maximum level for end-levels - level cap mechanics (it increased by +5 levels after each ng+) makes a good chunk of experience simply wasted (it's impossible to accurately get level cap just before the end-game boss) - the gear drop is way too low (should be x10 more), I don't have a single "good" item on any of my characters, all are wearing crap, often low level crap - no end-run option (e.g. after beating some boss), this is very hurtful for a starter, half of their resources gain is just taken away (can be reduced with certain town building) multiplayer issues (if you think other players could help you): - terrible penalty for reviving (-max life until END of run), I basically stop reviving others completely - joining in the middle makes you a gimp, you will NOT get adjusted (no food/drink buffs, no skills upgrades), e.g. warrior without heal is absolutely useless until RNG provides him with heal, I stop playing multiplayer because of this - have to type in console "UI_CHAT_SCALE 2" every time to be able to read chat, otherwise font is too small, annoying QoL issues: - town chest UI is a nightmare - loot is hard to spot (why not highlighting it prominently enough???) - map/minimap/overlay are tricky to make usable, I setup minimap to see most (for navigation) and using overlay to find secrets and still not happy (e.g. switching to overlay and back is ugly) - terrain is made hard to navigate on the purpose, game trying to eat your time with every move - many useless things, I only got purple trinkets 3 or 4 times (in 40 hours!), those are game-changer (they enable nice build options) It's fun to play until you build the town completely, then maybe few more 2-hours runs (once a day?)... but then you see achievement like "reach level 60" for each class (I have 3 characters, 30 lvl, 20 lvl and 20 lvl) and you understand how stupid this game is. The devs think someone will play ~300 hours (by doing similar runs over and over again)? Sure, 0.001% of players will definitely do. I am not one of those. To summarize: grindy game with little content, wasting your time.

A fun game. A bit slow to start initially, but then it gets going quite well. I really like how the classes provide bonuses for all of your characters, so there's a nice bit of metaprogression there. Runs well on my mini laptop, though I had to lower the graphics settings a bit, which is not surprising given the weak specs of this machine.

the game starts off rather slow but once you have a good run and get into it you will realize that there is SO MUCH to unlock and grind for and level up. the game provides a lot of content if you like something like this. you can upgrade every "trinket" (the random upgrades you get during games), each skill, each piece of equipment from cape to weapon, you even upgrade your "hub"-town alot and it starts to look really really good after a bunch of upgrades. the rogue-lite aspect is also very nice and pretty forgiving since there are a lot of permanent things you keep when you die, like your whole gear pieces and skills character levels. you also got a HUGE storage box where you can store items for all your other characters, which you can seamlessly switch between when in town. in coop all loot is personal so you dont have to share anything besides mana & hp drops. the pixel art is also very nice all in all i was extremely surprised about how addictive this game is and how much content it has

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- Playtime: 29 minutes - Played: 29 minutes - Context: I didn't like Hammerwatch (2013) but i figured the devs would've improved after 12 years. [b]Review[/b] Just picture Diablo but strip it to the bone. There are only 4 classes with a handful of active skills each. The story is barely there. Gameplay consists of walking through tiny, restrictive areas and killing rather dull enemies. None of the systems and flavour that make Diablo interesting are there, just a boring grind (at least Diablo's grind is fun at first). After killing enemies with the same weapon and same two skills for half an hour i got so bored i literally just walked up to a group and let them kill me. Seriously, go play literally any other ARPG instead. [b]2/10[/b]

too repetitive, plot is nonexistent or so irrelevant that u wont care about it, tutorial was subpar bc game offered little guidance when you start off. gameplay is a snoozefest where you go on a map and fight the same enemies to find random items and recruit new towns people, but this is so boring. the progression is also frustrating, if you level up, you need to go BACK to town to increase ur stats AND learn new skills. i think the town building is just progression/chore bait and doesnt add anything to the game really. i played as a wizard and want to cast spells but 1) basic fireball attack costs 0 mana to use 2) their first unlocked skill is just the basic fireball attack x5 but it costs a third of ur mana 3) high mana costs make wizard class so boring 4) also getting cornered = insta death is just not fun 5) at least let me increase my attack speed

Sooooooo boring.