Solomon's Boneyard: Hideous Retro Edition

I have been playing this since its release on IOS, it was easily one of my favorite games up there with BTD4. This game brought back the magic of that original release plus more. The only thing I am not the biggest fan of is the randomized wizards after the original 4 die and your spells continuously change up. I liked the old system of unlocking specialized wizards. It would have been cool to have that system with the new "buy your spells" system in this release. All in all, 10/10 game.

The game has some serious issues with screen flashing. As a result, when I exit the game the UI is still faintly visible on my monitor for almost 10 minutes. That's the main reason I'm bailing on this one, but it is also a very harsh experience even without that: Plenty of my first runs were ended by what felt like impossible situations that I had no way to survive. It's a difficult game, but at the start you aren't given access to necessary tools like the item vendor that will allow you to start your runs with a little more power. I wanted to dip into the original Vampire Survivors which is Boneyard, but this PC port appears to be the wrong way to try to experience it.

Hard to believe this classic is back, and improved no less. I don't game much on phones these days but I put a TON of hours into this waaay back. The game still plays very close to the OG, slowdowns and all. This might seem unoptimised but I find it quite beneficial when there are literal clouds of arrows and magical projectiles coming at me. There are a quite a few unlocks that don't take too awful long to open up. If you're a fan of the genre that Vampire Survivors brought back into the spotlight then this may be worth checking out.

As somebody that loved the OG game that I played on IPod touch as a pre-teen, I don't think this version is worth it to anybody that doesnt have deep nostaliga for the game. It has frequent crashes, frequent frame drops especially with the crows and imps, and 9/10 deaths are to things that feel extremely unfair. Eg, the invincibility circles that last 30s+, the constant skulls that automatically destroy energy shield, a few deaths were just marked as "Bad luck".. whatever that means? It has a special place in my heart as the first roguelike in my life, before the roguelike craze even took off. But without a lot more polish it's difficult to recommend to people

Great OG roguelike.

This game is so sick

You are just as beautiful as I met you first time, andr.... Wait I can't play as same character anymore??