Loving the game, keep wanting to wait till version 1.0 is out to enjoy the full story but I keep coming back. First Person Shooter/RPG, lots of upgradeable weapons and other items for your load out, as well as single use items that do all sorts of things, you can expose all the chests on the map to help you loot them, or do the same with resources, and others that unlock as you progress through the game and raise the "Gnosis" level which basically makes the game harder, adds interactable objects and pickups that you could see but not interact with previously, and makes you more powerful in the process. Apart from your main skills that you can upgrade at every level "ascension" you also carry a rosary, and it's beads can give you some pretty massive bonuses as long as your skills meet the level prerequisites. Every time you increase Gnosis you also receive a new slot for beads. Things like carrying an extra health elixir, having more stamina or health, better healing, etc, to help you as the game gets substantially crazier. I haven't even reached Gnosis IV and it's still pretty damn intense most of the time.
As for the gameplay loop, every time you defeat a group of enemies marked on the map it creates a large crystal you can interact with to obtain roguelite-style upgrades where you're given a choice between 2 upgrades and a third that is hidden, and though your run you get 7 such crystals. The hidden options can unlock with feathers you find in chests or after fighting calamities which are essentially mob battles triggered by you corrupting the world around you. The feathers can also buy additional upgrades you did not unlock yet. You can fight and gather enough witchfire to level up and then retreat or try to clear the whole map of objectives or anything in between, just need to find the exit portal and possibly clear the area of enemies.
Even in it's current state it's a ton of fun, about to cross over into Gnosis IV, wish me luck.
