Noita

This game has two major problems: 1. There is absolutely no way that any human being could reasonably play this game in a fulfilling way without using a wiki. Pair that with how strictly unfair the game can be and that makes for an experience that’s not very fun after the first hour. 2. People preach that the true "meta-progression" of this game is experience and wisdom but that is simply not true. At the time of this review I have around 7 hours of experience. In most Roguelikes a person with that much time would be considered to have the fundamentals of the game understood. In Noita, however, a person with 100 hours is considered a "noob". For most players, it will take them over 150 hours to complete the tutorial. I have been saying this for as long as I’ve been playing games, but being hard for the sake of a challenge and being hard just to be hard are not the same thing, and hard for the sake of hard is not fun. Your time is better spent playing Rogue Legacy 2 or Magicka 2 if you want to play a fun roguelike or magic-casting game. 150 hours should not be a barrier to entry for any game. This also has a third but less relevant problem: The "no hand-holding" philosophy also extends to the Steam page and marketing. Nowhere does it tell you truly how much time and grief you will have to sink into the game to even have a basic grasp of what you’re doing. If you insist on playing it, however, I would recommend you do ten or fifteen runs and then looking at some mods that can potentially lighten your burden.