Peglin

Incredible game to sit and play or just pop into every now and then. As hard as you make it with seemingly infinite replay-ability, and developers that still update and release detailed patches and updates.

too much rng. even for a roguelike. if at least navigation was reliable maybe it would be more tolerable, but you have little to no control over any run, which is a lot of the fun of mastering a roguelike

The coding could use some work, it feels bad in a "random" rogue-like to be able to face the same mini-boss twice in a row. There also could be some work done on the Navigation, as it has been noted by several people who have watched me play (and other users play on Youtube), that it sometimes seems premeditated on where it will drop the ball during Navigation between nodes, forcing you down certain paths even when you had an almost direct shot down another path. Other than these issues, it's a very fun game; addictive even when frustrating and love the art style.

eh also not worth anymore than $2.50 maybe less

Before you judge this review understand. I have reached level 20 (and beat it) with all but 1 character and have been playing this game since very early stages. I wish I could recommend this game with all the hours i have on it. (most hours were long prior to a lot of the new updates). They have really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up something good here in my opinion. This game was once simple fun and still interesting. Now its an RNG nested with a lot of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ designed rooms that are not fun and will ruin your entire run because you chose one relic at the first stage. There is a lot of bloat orbs that almost never work and the repetitiveness that you have now with only certain orbs appearing for certain characters is a bad choice in my opinion. Every run with a character specially at the higher crucible levels feels THE EXACT same because you have to go for that strategy because nothing else works or will get wreck by just a normal room encounter stage 2 or 3. I with they had just left it alone and maybe done a DLC and work a different aspect of the game to add more to the game rather then add BS annoying rooms and mini bosses. if i were the developers i would go back and redo a lot of ♥♥♥♥ because god this game needs it to be good again. Save your money, and buy any of the other classic rougelikes you would enjoy them better i promise.

I genuinely don't think I've played a more intentionally frustrating roguelike than Peglin in years. It's a shame, as there's a good base here, but the game does everything it can to ruin the player's fun.

This game has the potential to generate a lot of dopamine, but it's also unbalanced as hell -- at least from a synergy standpoint. Many of the relics are useless except for certain runs, at which point they become vital or game-breaking. The boss orbs are probably the hardest to evaluate, as they often give your attacks negative damage in exchange for powerful rewards. These reward can be great... as long as your orbs deal at least one damage. I just quit a run where I built around an orb that gives Spinfection (a debuff to enemies) on hit, got a boss reward/relic that said "status debuffs you inflict are twice as potent, but your attacks have -3/-0" ...and found out that if the orb doesn't deal any damage, it doesn't actually hit, rendering my build useless. Like, the game is fun, but you have to know how items interact, and if you don't know, you're punished big-time. Kinda sucks because of that.