Underboard

I love auto battlers but I had a bit of a struggle with this one. You think you're on an insane run, and even the final boss tricks you into thinking you're going to win. You have maxed synergies and items, instagib phase 1, phase 2 is a little closer but you're not worried. Maybe your positioning is off and you lose but you have plenty of health so you reposition and win on the second try. And then phase 3 you just have no chance. Your run is over, better luck next time. The wording of synergies sometimes is a little too technical to fully intuit. A few Ancient rarity items made me think they did the opposite of what they actually did. Example: There's a mechanic in the game called Combo which gives every 3rd ultimate a bonus to damage. There's an Ancient weapon that lets you start at max combo, but the wording made me think I can't generate combo after the first Ult. Mechanically interesting, a guaranteed big burst at the loss of being able to do it again later. No sir, its the opposite. You're ALWAYS max combo so every ult get the bonus. A lot of items and descriptions are like this. You have to read the description out loud to try and parse what it actually does in order to try and understand and even then you might still get it wrong. Some of this could be on me, sure, but a lot of reviews seem to ring the same bell of "Overly complicated and overly random so it's hard to pin down what a winning run even looks like." It's a fun artstyle and you'll get some hours out of it if you like autobattler roguelikes. I will say, however, as someone who wins at least one run in the first few tries whenever they play a new roguelike, I uninstalled this game after bashing my head against the final boss for a total of about 3 hours over a couple days without succeeding. If you're into that then have it it, but I can name very few roguelikes harder than this one to get a godrun going. And even when you think you achieved escape velocity, you're probably wrong.