ODDCORE

I initially loved ODDCORE's aesthetic, then briefly wrote it off as a lazy attempt to cash in on the trending "liminal space/anomaly" hype, but I eventually locked in and stopped overthinking and started appreciating the game for what it is. It's got smooth movement, great power scaling, high run variety, and unique enemies. The whole "countdown to purge" mechanic adds a brilliant sense of urgency that I wouldn't normally get in any other roguelike shooter. I sometimes stream it for my friends, and they can't process what's happening. TLDR: Definitely takes a little getting used to, but I highly recommend it.

Being a recent college graduate also doing research as a way of life lately, it has been hard for me to find time to enjoy one thing I've always loved growing up: video games. I've played many games (formerly a PlayStation user), enjoyed many, particularly roguelike games. I was browsing the most recent summer steam sale and ended up finding Oddcore. It is truly hard to precisely annotate just how much of everything this game brings to me. My jaw dropped. I have never gave a game a formal review, but Oddcore deserves it. The last game I played that I remember having this similar feeling was when ELDEN RING came out, albeit different type of game. I love roguelikes, and this seriously just hits the spot for that and beyond. Embracing the Oddcore may seem simple initially, but every decision you make effects your gameplay, and your loadout before you even boot up a run matters to how you personally want to play. I've seen some people complain about the movement being sluggish. It may initially seem like that, but equipping the right gadgets and also the correct weapon layout can change that. For example, the primary fire (not the alt fire) of the sniper is a AOE that does not do much damage but is incredible for lifting you off the ground and helping with sticking on the walls momentarily. You can create many synergies with this and use this time to give your gadgets an extra second or so to recharge. For example, I mainly use the SMG and the Sniper, so I try to upgrade my dash and teddy bomb gadgets, along with the SMG alt, to create a method I have to clear variants. It goes without saying: *You* create your own run. There is so much to say about this game that is limited by how I cannot fully transcribe my emotions. If you enjoy roguelikes and unique takes on retro shooters, with a beautiful take on the visuals embracing liminality with its characters as well, please give this game a try. As a statement from me personally, you will not regret this. I will support this game indefinitely.

Bought this game with a bunch of others planning to try each one out for a couple hours but accidentally ended up playing this game for the whole day

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one of the most fun, interesting and addictive shooters i have played in a long time.

Oddcore has a simple premise of only having five minutes to go as long as you can create fun decisions when the souls you collect are your currency to add more time, what you spend for upgrades, and how you heal. Really fun.

You can feel the early access at times but it's already quite fun and it has a ton of potential. I like the occasional breaks and challenges that crop up, allowing brief breaks from the otherwise breakneck pace enforced by the time limit. I love how the mechanics all interact with each other due to shared resources, opportunity cost, and so on. It could use more enemy variety (there's currently just one pool of enemies, which makes areas blend together a bit) and possibly some reworking of existing enemies (including a couple bosses). The controls overall feel quite good, slide jumping feels particularly satisfying, though at times it's a bit floaty. The aesthetic and setting has been explored before, but ODDCORE has a very different tone and gameplay style, making it stand out quite well. Run progression sometimes feels quite good, I particularly like how many resources are multi-purpose. Souls are used for healing, buying from the slot machine, opening some shrines, and buying more time; cards give their own effects and act as currency for the vending machines and elemental upgrades. This leads to some interesting decisions which still feel snappy. The tax system also paces your hub usage in a very interesting way; it's a simple mechanic but it's really good, and it even allows for risk/reward decision-making and skill expression since you can access the hub without raising tax by [spoiler]getting caught by the watcher[/spoiler]. However, since soul healing doesn't scale with your max HP and you get so many of them later in a run, you eventually stop doing anything but buying time and cashing out with them, so I wouldn't mind a later-game use as well to keep the interesting choices going. (It's around that point that tax scaling also stops keeping up.) On the subject of HP, your starting HP is basically more than enough until you run into something that suddenly does 200 damage, which feels very strange when you're a new player. I'm now used to this and I know to pre-emptively get a few health upgrades, but it felt unintuitive to go from never dropping below 50% to dying near-instantly. At a certain point in the run, you kind of go on autopilot. The shields and invulnerability phases some enemies have sort of prevent this, but I think having different pools of enemies to help areas feel more distinct from each other could greatly help. Obviously, "just conceptualize, design, and implement 100 more enemies" is far easier said than done and the game is genuinely fun for a long while as-is. If the biggest issue with an early access game is that it could use more of what it already has, it's a good early access game. More importantly than any of that, however: you can use a frog as a weapon and the reload animation is really funny and it spits on people and it's genuinely one of the best weapons in the game 10/10

Oddcore? More like peakcore. Had a lot of fun with this game, tho the final boss was slightly disappointing but overall I love this game, it's vareity of enemies, levels, bosses, weapons and abilities, hope it'll keep getting peak updates.

It ain't it, the game is quite dull to be honest. The enviroments, despite being all kooky and zany are just regular boring arenas, by the way some of them look I expected walking on walls and other crazy stuff but nah, it's all just fluff. Enemies aren't very interesting either, there is little variety and they mostly just run at you, they aren't very ODD. Bosses are bullet sponges and feel like a chore. Weapons have way too small magazines and too long cooldowns, they aren't satisfying to use. Upgrades are mostly just stat increases, probably the biggest letdown in a roguelite. Movement feels very sluggish when your dashes and whatnots are on cooldown. Music? If you don't collect additional hidden tracks you will be listening to the same stuff over and over again. Graphics are lovely, but that's my personal preference for this style. As for minor gripes the stat window has no descriptions for icons so you don't really know what is what. OVERALL, I suggest waiting for 1.0, but I doubt it's gonna change much.

全実績解除済みです。 見た目の通りのリミナルスペース×ローグライク×FPSです。 操作感はかなり良いです。 敵を倒して入手するソウルを使って時間を延長させるゲームなので、1プレイ5分という訳ではありません。 残り時間がわずかな時に緊急離脱できないステージに突入してしまう、という詰みパターンにさえ気を付ければ制限時間はそこまで気にしなくて良いゲームです。 ヴァリアント50以降のエンドコンテンツにおいては、プレイヤー側のインフレが凄まじいので無限にランを続けられます。 ・役立つ知識 初期武器のピストルが最後まで優秀です アーケードはコイン落としが一番楽で効率が良いです ガジェットは基本的に機動力のあるものが強いです ショップで自販機を使う権利を無駄にしないために、序盤においては時間に余裕があっても拠点に戻ってカードを購入することをお勧めします ・分かりにくい実績について なんかやっちゃいました？ →[spoiler] 生成したポータルにソウルを撃つ [/spoiler] 名前はジャッキー、苗字はオッドコア！ →[spoiler] バットで1つのボールを10回殴る　ラン中でなくても解放可能 [/spoiler] へクスブレード →[spoiler] 右クリックを押したまま左クリックを押すことで発動できるソード・ダッシュで一度に6キル [/spoiler] キミは車掌だ！ →[spoiler] 拠点を走っている列車の上で汽笛を連打 [/spoiler] 正義のランナー →[spoiler] 1回のランで10回、汚染が始まる前にポータルで拠点に戻る [/spoiler]