Mortal Sin

Alright I bounced off of this one twice, over at least two years, before giving this a third and final try- and it clicked. It's the kind of game I SHOULD like, but the systems are a liiiitle bit obscure on your first go-through- so have some patience, and watch a video if you need some help getting your bearings. But once it DOES click, it's extremely cool. Many interesting mechanics working together, and just darn fun gameplay. Tons of classes, each with unique combos and mechanical elements. The combos are great too- make sure you figure that out for yourself because it's the crux of doing good damage. You press Esc to view your class combos, and you can even pin them to the screen to help practice them. There's a dummy in the hub too. This probably seems like a strange thing to be talking about in a review, but it's what you'll want to know on your first time through.

Buy it if you like: - Roguelike or hack & slash games - Extremely fast paced games like Hotline Miami or Post Void - Dark fantasy art and iconography - Gore, blood and dismemberment Very cool game

The game is very well made and is honestly pretty cool, but unfortunately just isn't for me. I'd still recommend giving it a try.

I think I have to agree with some of the negative reviews. The game looks great, has it's own style going for it, but feels like an utter mess to play. It's not all bad though. The can be snappy and fun in little bits. The dodges, kicks and everything seem fine, there's a few fun classes to spam abilities with and lots to unlock. The dismemberment in combat is ridiculous in the best of ways, legless and armless zombies trying to attack you. And sometimes the feeling of mayhem is spectacular, when you are whirlwinding through tons of enemies. Enemies are spastic, nothing really feels like it has impact so you just spam away, using the best combo you can to whittle away at the enemies. The combat is fun for a while, but it's just so damn messy with enemy attacks coming from where ever. Not once or twice have I been slapped around way too hard by a zombie spawning behind me, or having a floor effect kill me with little warning. Those weren't cool in Path of Exile or Diablo, and they aren't here. I guess the game wants you to experience the wonders of discovering things on your own, but some of the systems (at least were) really opaque. The game takes you to places and throws things at you, and you just have to guess at what it all means, or read a wiki. I also really, really hate most of the traps, with a special mention to the forest level branches and hands. The buzzsaws are fine, they are readable and avoidable, but the swinging branches and such actively drain joy from the game. I'd pick Vermintide over this almost any day.

I thought I gonna be Guts from Berserk, instead I become hobo who cannot stop punching demons. Joke aside, this is more than solid endless action roguelike game. Even for someone, who is not familiar melee first person games, its melee combat is superb. There might be some janks, but they are usually minor. The dev listens feedbacks from players well too. Such as putting Berserker as starting class, QoL and so on. The dev is still tweaking the game with updates. I highly recommend it. p.s. This is not Dark Souls with slow burn combat, but more of Doom Reboot with melee arsenals to torture demons.

im honestly mourning. ive been playing since early access started. why for the love of god did you ruin the combat system. the gameplay was perfect. there is a such thing as making too many changes. its a genuine shame, this could have been generational

This game is like a drug and gameplay is buttery smooth like oiled up fish with a jetpack moving through whooshh passage portal. 11/10