Neon Spellstorm

The thing that makes this game stand out is the incredible depth of the character build system. First, there is a wide variety of randomized gear that can drop during a run ... strategically choosing which pieces to equip as your run evolves will often be the difference between victory and defeat. Additionally, as you complete increasingly difficult runs, you will unlock an increasing variety of customization options ... Additional wizard classes with different strengths/weaknesses, additional spells, starting gear, and even Neon Sigils which can select at the start of the run to provide some direction to your build. The deep character build system makes ever run feel different and gives the game a ton of replayability. Lots of fun! Highly recommend!

Played Tap Wizard 2 for hundreds of hours (saved me from losing my mind at work back then, lol), therefore my expectations for this game were quite high, and damn, I did not get disappointed so far. It kind of manages to capture all the beauty of TW2 and put it into a different genre and it just... works? Very creative systems and good progression. Catchy music. Smooth Gameplay. (I might add more to this Review once I played more of the game.)

Really impressive build customisation. I love feeling like every spell can be as viable as any other.

Game is a lot of fun

Recommended because: - Satisfying spell chains and synergies - Good variety in characters and spells to choose from - Many interesting meta upgrades that aren't just "+X stat" - Nice surreal pixel art style - Cool electronic music

The artstyle, music and premise is very cool - but that's all I really liked about it. I dislike the slow movement speed of the player, this is at least one aspect that makes the standard gameplay a bit too plodding/cumbersome for my taste. I also dislike the upgrade choices in this game - very samey and yet always require some time to digest and consider. Convoluted. Because I didn't enjoy this aspect of it, it felt like tedium/busy work rather than something I'd get excited about.

A decent bullet heaven roguelite about spell customization. 7.5/10 Strengths: Spell customization is fun, trying to either create a massive spell chain that clears the screen or buff up my base spell casts to do the same is fun The art is good A lot of variance for loadouts with extra challenges. Flaws: There isn't much in the way of meta-progression before you win your first run, which kind of defeats the point of metaprogression The early midgame of each run (about soul level 2-3) isn't very interesting imo. It's after you're done worrying about early game, but before you can start to prepare for the boss. If you don't have a forge or a shop, its about 4 zones of not much happening.

Absolute Banger, go get it ! Dev is very active on discord, tons of content and variety, what a breath of fresh air.

i was already excited for this game but when I booted it up and recognized the playstyle n saw that its the same dev as TW2 I knew it was gonna be a banger.. and it is!!! my only complaint is that I wish it displayed keyword explanations when you moused over items like it does in something like StS or magic arena or whateva

In the early 90s I must have imagined games of the future would look and feel like this.