Tears of Metal

A fun roguelite game with a lot of promise, but it currently suffers from a major difficulty scaling issue. Act 1 of your playthrough is usually a breeze, culminating in your first real boss fight which isn't too bad. Act 2, however, immediately becomes a souls-like experience. Enemy numbers, health, and damage dramatically increase along with more frequent mini-boss encounters. The Act 2 boss encounter is also straight out of a souls-like game, primarily being dodging attacks and waiting until you can get in 1-2 hits (repeat 30 times over 15-20 minutes). The style of boss encounter feels very out of place for the type of game the rest of it is. I think the biggest improvement the game needs right now is a rebalancing of enemy difficulty (numbers, health, damage output) with player capability (health, damage, perks, healing availability) to make progression faster/easier so the player can experience 2-3 acts of the game before it becomes a souls-like. It gets tiring trying to grind past the Act 2 boss just to die and not unlock any new characters, equipment, companions, etc. The second biggest improvement would be to change how you unlock those things, lol.