Runers

Languages: English, German, Russian, Japanese

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Hours played at review time, across 48 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

TLDR: It's a really cool concept, but it's also repetitive, lackluster, broken, and has terrible controls. The cool thing that sells this game is that it has a custom spell maker, where there are over 200 spells. This is a pretty cool idea, but it's also pretty basic. Like, you just combine different things to get the spells, so basically, there's hundreds of spells, and depending on what you have in your inventory, you can craft them. That's it. There's not really a good customization aspect to it, it's just that there's a LOT of spells, and you pick your favorites. The game is broken, where I just entered a room that essentially had two things happening at once, which shouldn't happen (I know you haven't played the game, but essentially it was two types of rooms on top of each other, which didn't make much sense). When dying, the whole game crashed, and crashed my computer. I couldn't even force close it; I actually had to hold the power button on my computer, which is a rarity, and shouldn't ever happen with a game. The controls are horrendous. Basically, you can have six spells at once, which is cool, BUT how you fire them is bad. You move with WASD, you use a spell for each RMB and LMB, but then 1-4 also do spells. So, the mouse is easy enough, but then pressing 1-4 while pressing WASD is impossible, especially since the cooldown on spells is usually less than a second. Also, if you have auto-fire enabled, you literally cannot push 1-4, which just shows the devs didn't playtest this too much, considering that's a game breaking element for the auto-fire, which means the auto-fire is useless. The graphics are bad. The sound is terrible. It looks like a kid drew it in paint, and then the sounds all sound like some dude and his girlfriend just spoke into a cheap headset mic. Like honestly most of the SFX are the enemies saying, "ugh" when you hit them, and it sounds like some random person just saying "ugh". It's almost funny actually. There are also not SFX where there should be, like the player being hit, or standing on fire and being damaged. The gameplay itself is basically just running around dodging enemies, shooting as many spells as you can. The level up system is pretty stupid. There are tons of different options for levelling up, and the game randomly selects a few for you to choose from. This is a cool roguelike element that I usually like (Ziggurat did this well, a lot of this game seems to be drawing from Ziggurat). The problem is, the vast majority of the level ups are incredibly build specific, so they will almost always be quite useless. Overall, levelling up just doesn't feel rewarding basically ever, and you don't really build your character.