Heroes of Hammerwatch II

This game is a great roguelike with many unique characters and playstyles, but it does get a little repetitive due to the repeating areas that are always in the exact same order, with the exact same enemies (slight changes on NG+1 though). The entire game essentially revolves around playing as many different classes, each having 3 specializations. Each class has 2 active and 2 passive skills, and each specialization adds 1 active and 1 passive skill and they really feel quite unique. There's also different main hand and offhand weapons/gear that change your main and secondary attack. After buying upgrades/gear, you start a run in the Forest, and try to make it as far as you can and eventually beat the boss waiting for you at the end. After doing that, the next difficulty will unlock and you can do it all over again, but this time, harder, and more rewarding. You can also find maps that allow you to go to special areas, where you'll have to go through some harder areas and beat a boss unique to the map type, and get a piece of Epic gear as a reward. Epic gear is just more special and better gear than the gear you find during regular runs, but they are exclusive to these maps and hard to get. My main issue with the game is just that there aren't any alter areas, like how in the Binding of Isaac Repentance you get multiple options (at least 2, not counting the alt floors) so that every run feels at least a little different than before. Here, you start in the forest, every time and then you go through the exact same areas in the exact same order (unless you skip some areas which is possible). Sure the semi-random generation helps make the places feel a little different, but visually and in terms of enemies, it's the exact same. At least there's pets as of writing this, which help you collect most of the basic loot on the map. Super helpful. I think I'd recommend this game over HoH1, simply because of the specializations and gear. Whilst sorting gear is just as much of a pain as it is in other games, the fact you can play any class in any way you'd like is very fun to experiment with. As someone who prefers playing summoners, it is sad to hear that summons fall off during later NG+, which is why I have steered clear from most of the summon-based specializations, however, they did say that changes were coming to summons in the new free update, so I am looking forward to that!