LOOTPLOT

It's really hard to describe what this is, let alone how I feel about it. It's a "score-lite" like Balatro, but the core gameplay doesn't easily compare to other games. You start with a few tiles, you buy items from the shop and put them into those tiles, and the tiles activate sequentially to earn score. Sounds simple, but when most items interacts with each other, it complicates things. Creating the proper organized chaos has both a high skill floor and ceiling, and I'll admit I didn't know what the heck was going on for the first few hours. In a way it's like automation. To get your score high enough you need to crank up the bonus and multiplier using whatever means necessary. One item triggers the northeast item once, so you put an item northeast that triggers all tiles around it, which triggers the initial item again to trigger all tiles around it. Then have something trigger a rotate on it to point to a scoring item and BOOM you got yourself a combo. And unlike other games, this one's not afraid to let you break the game and go to the moon; in fact, it wants you to. By the end of a run your board looks like a messy bedroom. Curses, item destroyers, negative bonus, dozens of different triggers, treasure hunting, modifiers of modifiers: it's absolute chaos and it's a blast. 100% (all 17 gold trophies) - around 40 hours Fully completable blind