Withering Rooms

It's a great little dark souls like side scroller. The story and atmosphere are interesting and it never really gets in the way of gameplay. You can understand as much or as little as you like. The gameplay gives you many different builds, play styles, upgrades, costumes, items. All have their merit and you can come up with a variety of clever strategies to defeat your foes. I did end up switching to easy mode around halfway through as there is some grinding to do which I couldn't really be bothered with and this did make the game way too easy. Something to keep in mind as this did hamper my enjoyment. I really liked the atmosphere and theme of the game. A creepy ever changing dream universe with various interesting characters, and plot were you are never sure where it will lead. If you like dark souls side scrollers then I would definitely recommend this.

Deceptively good.

amazing game, needs more attention

An absolute masterpiece in creative game mechanics, story, artistic cohesion, and horror, mixed with a slight rogue-lite/metrovania/salt and Sanctuary gameplay style. It's so good that to say anything more about it would ruin your experience, but I'll give a couple of tips for new players: Explore everything before moving on to the next chapter. It will be quite obvious when a chapter is ending, so make sure you make your rounds in full before that. Dying doesn't mean losing everything, either; simply curse yourself until the room drips blood and go room to room collecting items you've lost in the sludge-covered chests that only appear at a high cursed level. Try your best not to look anything up about the story, puzzles, or mechanics if you can. You'll enjoy the game MUCH more if you go in blind. It's simply remarkable what they've done with such a limited development staff and resources. Once you've beaten the game (a couple times, you'll want to), pick up the sequel that has just entered early access.

Deep original lore, great atmosphere. Good gameplay that trusts the player to figure stuff out. Surprisingly good.

It's a great RPG/Survival Horror indie game that should definitely get more love. There's a proc gen aspect to it that's very light (basically reshuffling of rooms and a bit of randomness). It's like: What if there was a Silent Hill/Clock Tower side-scrolling RPG with an interesting story, where you can make a ton of different character builds and have a decent challenge? -Yes Please. Excellent Horror atmosphere, very nice variety of enemies, many different tools at your disposal. The way the proc gen works is perfect for the NG+, where you can find new questlines and a hidden ending. Amazing stuff from a solo developer.

これは面白いです。 理解(わか)らないうちは絶望しかないけど、 いろいろと理解(わか)っていく過程が楽しすぎる 実績100%までずっと楽しかったゲームの１つです。