Starforged Legacy

The developers have absolutely no idea how to handle balance and game design. When you first start, the game looks promising and visually appealing. However, after just two hours, you realize it isn't going anywhere. The first map of each run is incredibly basic and easy, featuring a tiny number of enemies that die in a single hit. That drastically changes on the very second map, which throws a massive wall of enemies at you that require multiple hits to bring down. To make matters worse, this isn't a true "bullet hell"—the enemies have guns, but they choose to blindly fly into you to ram your ship, dealing massive damage. Pretty suicidal chaps. The core issue is that even the fastest, most agile ship in the game is too slow and sluggish. The enemies fly faster and maneuver better than you can, even when your passive meta-progression skill tree is completely maxed out. Each ship starts with only one weapon, which is nowhere near enough to handle the barrage of enemies on screen. While other games in this genre give you active abilities to damage crowds and survive the onslaught, here you are entirely at the mercy of RNG. Additional weapons are tied to specific map rewards—if you get unlucky, you are forced to finish the entire run with just your single starting weapon. In similar titles like R.I.P., Jotunnslayer, or Greedland, leveling up grants you active skills that allow you to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Even when you fail a run, you know you are making tangible progress. Here? After three hours and a massive investment into the permanent upgrades, I still see no light. I have no idea how many dozens of times I am expected to grind these initial three maps before I am strong enough to defeat the first boss. This loop would be salvageable if the player ships weren't so incredibly sluggish, leaving you completely unable to evade the kamikaze swarms.

pretty bad. UI barely works with controller. I found myself constantly needing to grab my mouse to select an upgrade because the upgrade menus would stop responding to controller inputs. was happening on all menus unfortunately. as far as roguelites are concerned, this game is pretty awful in comparison to others on the market. this game contains a ton of really bad game design choices. It has mandatory time limits per level, which are incredibly short in most cases. Boss rooms do not have time limits, thankfully. As soon as the timer is reached, no matter what you are doing, your ship warps out. You could be a nanosecond away from grabbing some upgrade drop crates and because of the time limit, you lose your opening very quickly sometimes. On the Brutal difficulty, with how fast enemies can kill you, you can quickly lose the game going for these boxes but then you're punished by being methodical and patient with your openings to fly by dangerous enemies to grab the upgrade crates. Nothing makes me hate a PVE game more than being forced by a clock. Being punished for wanting to take the extra time to deal with all of the objectives is anti-fun game design and until that is changed or removed, I can not recommend this game

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Good game, made it to the top 20 on the leaderboard but it's basically unplayable for any long period of time without the option to save and come back on a later run. IMO that should be the highest priority the devs focus on, it punishes you for having good runs if you can't save and come back. I'll still give it a positive review because it's a fun game and plays well but there's no worse feeling than getting into a run and getting a good build going then being locked into this app for 6-7 hours. *****Edit**** Save/Load has been added and all is right in the world.

Another soft recommend. It's fun for a few hours, and I dig the art direction, but the controls are a little rough and you've mostly seen it all after a few runs and have tried out the main ship types.

The devs are listening to feedback, and doing their best in many regards. They seem to have a prob with performance still though, it seem releated to the old version of their 3d engine perhaps. Overall i like the product, the devs spirit and attitude gives long term hope.

Good start. But needs a lot more sectors, enemies, bosses and balancing. Score: 6/10. Better wait for a 1.0 release.

Cool concept, needs waaaaay more balancing.

First roguelike in a while I've been allowed to make a build so stupidly broken with chain reactions that it freezes so hard it then crashes. Love it.