ODDCORE

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.

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 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.

doesn't even need a lengthy review, just a really fun game.

Really solid roguelike. Like all the best roguelikes, it's got gamble, which is great. Levels are a 10/10. Just wish it had a few more level modifiers.

Super unique and fun. BUY IT NOW!

holy cinema it’s like tboi with its roglike element but holy peak