Pathogenic

Extremely fun and well worth the price! Tons of ways to customize your runs, and an incredible system of mixing the abilities of different organelles to your advantage! My only gripe is that I wish there was more of a story, or perhaps more variety of environments.

I quite like this game, it is awesome and game.

Very good game. I've been waiting a long time for 2 things: -a game where you get to play as a microbe -a game that dials up the synergy insanity of rogue likes by 9,000% This game does both. I've had so many builds that are just absolutely BUSTED because of how they break the game. I've played a game where I basically turned into Shin Godzilla and lasered everything around me, a game where the entire world was erupting every second, and a build where entire armies of viruses would spawn and attack in mob force. It's really awesome! The environmental hazards get REALLY annoying. 2d games tend to lean best on mobility and positioning rather than firepower. I REALLY feel that in this game. The hazards restrict movement a lot or toss the pathogen around, and that gets very, very, VERY annoying very, very, VERY fast. People tend to hate grappling attacks, because it robs control from the player while they just have to sit there and get wracked or something. Removing movement control from the player (I think) is a generally bad idea. Builds will often sharpen the toolset towards a certain specialty like minions, damage, mobility, health, mitocondria, super-weapon, etc. The problem is that I really feel when a weakness exists. If I have a build that doesn't produce any hearts at all, I'm going to feel that while I'm playing. If I don't have speed, I'm going to feel it. If I don't have firepower, I'm going to feel it. And if I encounter a room or boss that just happens to exploit that weakness, I'm gonzo. The trouble is that there are essentials in the game where it feels like I'm obligated to carry them. If I'm offered a flagellum, I HAVE to take that option when presented, because I might not see anything that'll give me speed for 20 more rooms. It's very frequent that I'm crossing my fingers like, "Ok. Maybe the next room will finally have that one thing I need to cover this one extreme weakness I have," and room after room, it doesn't come. So the rewards feel very all over the place. Very chaotic. Occasionally, you'll get something game-changing or meaningful. Most of the time, not really, and much of the time, I'm missing very basic essentials like a pair of shoes or something. The game needs more reliable, consistent ways of getting the essentials like hearts and speed. You're only guaranteed to get ONE heart at each shop each boss for 5 monies...That's it. It means an otherwise super chaotic game is demanding that I play very conservatively. Every single hit is detrimental and a huge downer, because healing is so sparse, and whenever a new wheel or a heart upgrade pops up, I feel obligated to take it and pass up on some of the cooler rewards. Some organisms (like the amoeba) are very slow to get going, and it makes it kind of boring, and then the randomness and inconsistency of the rewards stands out glaringly as I'm waiting to get an external slot and not a 12th internal one or an upgrade that lets me attract DNA from 400% farther for 3 seconds after killing an enemy with a burning weapon while they're frozen on a Tuesday.

virus

Twin-stick roguelite shooter where you get to create your own little horrible bug. The best part is everything is so... wibbly wobbly. It feels so wonderfully organic.

Absolute blast playing this game. Hope it blows up. My suggestion for coop would be to have more options for the aim reticles allowing you to change their shape and color to help with differentiating them from your coop partner. Also there is a glitch when you change the size of one players aim recital randomly it will change your coop partners aim recital to the same size later in the game.