KILL KNIGHT

Love the aesthetic and the responsive controls, but I can't recommend this game due to its asinine progression system where you are stuck with the worst weapons and upgrades up against quite difficult levels, and the game seemingly asks you to grind hours upon hours to accrue enough currency to buy better gear. This leaves you with a frustrating experience of repeatedly bashing your head against the wall trying to clear a level with dogsh*t gear, not to mention how boring and repretitive it gets doing the same level over and over again. This game was so close to greatness, but bizarre design decisions regarding progression has let it down.

Fluid gameplay and cool graphics. However most gear is just bad which greatly limits build variety. The progression system is what people say it is: ♥♥♥♥. Lazy design.

Isometric doomslayer dream

Twin-stick HYPER DEMON. Yes that's reductive. Very happy this is an actual twin-stick and not another vampire survivors clone, not that I have anything against those, it's just a bit of a saturated genre right now. Another little thing I appreciate is that the game gives you a currency to skip weapon and item unlock challenges, slowly enough that it's not the optimal way to unlock stuff, but quickly enough that you can upgrade after being stuck on a stage for a while. Performs well, 60fps locked on steamdeck, feels very polished and tightly designed, has a great cohesive art style in the visuals and the sound, fun satisfying gameplay, and is very cheap even at full price in my opinion. KILL KNIGHT VERY GOOD

Finished it in a week and a half, do not recommend doing that, do recommend playing this if you like mastery loops in your games. It's definitely intended to be replayable, so keep that in mind; this is not a one and done gripping story type beat, but a game where the value comes in when you start redoing the levels with different equipment and higher difficulties

This is not to say that the game itself is bad. But I feel that even with it being marketed as difficult. It is too top heavy early game for two major reasons that make me go "hate it" after a couple runs. Whoever decided 1 - the difficulty of the tasks in order to unlock early upgrades and 2 - the mechanic of having ONE resource be required for 2 equally important game functions are in my opinion not good at game design balance. And let me be clear for the people in the back - Just because YOU like to punish yourself because you're a masochist, doesn't mean that is fun for most people. And Masochism is not Difficulty Having to choose between gaining damage, speed, and overall power OR refueling the ONLY way to gain Health is just stupid. It's not like in other bullet hell games or games of this nature where health packs naturally come about and you can just survive using skill. There is zero other ability to gain health other than sacrificing your power. The same blood gems raise your kill power - which decreases GREATLY the second you even get touched. Also, let me counter this. "It says difficult" Yes, understood. Which, honestly in this genre isn't a great tell. Because normally moving just two thumb sticks is so boring after five minutes that adding a button makes my brain tingly. That is not what I am getting at. I am not expecting to clear a game the first time through. What I am saying is that after playing TONS of games like this, and having tried every available combination of gear, some of the tasks just seam way too much to handle at what is meant to be the early game - with what i said before about the blood gem mechanic. IF you naturally gained health OR there were in game drops, I think it would STILL be challenging, but a lot more stable early game to actually learn the fine details like your hit box, enemy attack ranges, patterns, etc etc, the things that keep you alive in bullet hells. I also do not think the game is unplayable or anything like that. I just personally would NOT tell someone else to play it. Because I can't see how they'd like it long term unless they really just don't have any other game to focus on. I really just feel like the balance of what you gain with health and blood gems compared to weighing the option of either choice's in-run implications combined with how much health gained/kill power gained from that decision - and then the loss of either or upon taking even a tiny bit of damage just feels unbalanced when you are still in what should be the learning period of the game.

Я честно по началу был в восторге от игры, но дойдя до 4 уровня(из 5) на средней сложности, я просто афигел от сложности прохождения! Почему нельзя делать игры для удовольствия с нормальным балансом челленджей! Обычно люди проходят на среднем и потом идут на более сложные уровни, но тут я боюсь даже представить что тут будет на сложном и самом сложном... По мне как тут проблема именно в кол-ве врагов или больше в их появления прямо порой возле тебя что дает им преимущества сразу тебя цапнуть когда ты и так окружен толпой врагов! игре ставлю 5\10 и не буду ее даже пытаться дальше проходить...

Really tight and addictive gameplay, beautiful stylized color scheme and cutscenes. Would love to play an isometric rpg version of this with the same combat system, fleshed out lore, exploration and world building.

This game is perfectly suited for a controller, but for some reason, the developers stubbornly try to force us to play with a mouse. For example, there is absolutely no aim assist for gamepads. The dodge roll is bound to LB! agagagxxDD Refunded. I do NOT recommend this game at all, especially to those who prefer playing on a controller

TOTAL DEMON DEATH < This game is absolute kino and I'll shill it. Buy it if you like roguelikes, the aesthetic (of being a Based and Christpilled knight getting into hell, pretty much like Dante's Inferno (The game), and a bit like Blasphemous), skill based shooter games and so on. I don't think I'll ever regret this purchase.