I'm not usually a big fan of Autobattlers, but this one's a real treat.
Technical stuff out of the way, game runs fantastic, never seen it lag. The only time I thought it might be lagging, turned out to just be hitstops from an ability proccing in the end game. There's a fair amount of settings to mess with. You could practically run it on a smart fridge. The demo gives you like 25% of the game for no cost, and progress made will transfer to the full purchase if you do decide to upgrade.
This game is pretty simple, it's just really polished and well made. The music is charming, ranging from pleasant little loops that have just enough going on that they never really get old, to both amusingly out of place and surprisingly fitting spaghetti-western grit in the boss themes. The entire roster is viable in the right circumstances, there are no items or passives I've looked at and just gone "This doesn't seem helpful". Lots of novel character and ability ideas on display here, and best of all, it's VERY thorough. The documentation this game provides in-game is almost comparable to documenation you'd see in a game engine. Don't know what a stat does? Click on it, and if it has a substat you can click on THAT to know what THAT does.
Don't know how much damage an upgrade is *really* giving you? Hover over your dude's damage report and the game will display in raw numbers and percentages how much benefit you're getting from each and every item in your build.
Almost nothing is left vague, information is easy and intuitive to access, very refreshing to see. This game feels extensively playtested, and almost nobody got left behind.
My only nitpicks is that it can be kind of grindy, you have to discover and win a run w/ every single character, item and trinket to find them in the next difficulty. I feel like after completing a certain % of a tier, the game should start bridging that gap in some way, either by awarding random 'completion stars' to undiscovered/uncleared items, or just unlocking the whole tier for you at once after hitting a certain threshhold (like 80-90%)
On top of that, devs announced they're going to be releasing at least one content update and a number of hotfixes, although I can't say I've seen any bugs.
Pick it up if you're on the fence, and get the dem o if you're short on cash, but you should absolutely keep your eye on this game. I know I'll be going back and playing the rest of this dev's catalogue.
