Overlooting

The underlying idea for gameplay is fine, the graphics are fine, however there's too many small annoyances that make me not want to recommend this game. With enough changes I'd probably change the rating, but I think the dev is done with the game. If you already own the game or got it for free you will probably enjoy a few of your runs, as you will probably more easily tolerate the annoying parts of the game. + Pros. Smooth and simple gameplay. No tutorial and easy to get into. It has some interesting sets and some interesting ideas around mixing and matching the sets. The simplicity is perfect in the fact it's extremely easily to pick up and isn't very demanding on your system. A lot of friction in gaming for me is starting a game or learning mechanics, here you're instantly in the action and not too confused. - Cons Lack of UI clarity . You cannot see exactly what a set does without equipping the set. You can see a vague idea of what the set does if you go into a small sub menu. I expect to be able to see all set information easily and at all times. I expect to atleast be able to see the set effects before equipping the item while hovering over the icon. This is necessary for the round after the boss, where you get to pick between two set bonuses. This is especially important if you are looking to multi set knowing which set requires 2 or 3 pieces for the first set bonus. Sucky Controls: How can the controls suck in this game? All you do is click and move your mouse? Well that's the problem, a lot of hotkeys and queueing of actions is missing. Here's a few examples below: There is no button to move items to the blacksmith. Meaning; you have to drop and drag them over and over. This gets quite tedious especially with the first character who unlocks the ability to use the forge 5 times. This means easily 15 drag and drops per blacksmith, two blacksmiths, three worlds, that's potential of 90 times you could quickly click PER run. You want to remove all types of friction in fast random based games to keep the pace smooth and nice... Speaking of pointless friction: There is a delay to attacking after everything has been resolved and the animations are done. You think you should be able to click, but it ignores the input. I expect to be able to at minimum as soon as the idle animations and things are done to click and attack, and ideally it takes the action as soon as the last enemy has attacked before resolving things like poison. If you try to equip things between map transitions it doesn't work. You have to fully wait for it to play the animation again and load the next map. I would expect to be able to start equipping and interacting with the inventory at all times outside of combat. More Unecessary Clicking: There should be an auto open chest option. Having to constantly open chests after combat is annoying and adds to the friction points above, and creates a pointlessly sluggish experience. TL;DR Overlooting? Good idea, lacking execution.