Wonder of Blue

If you're into rougelikes with a hint of cuteness, you might like this. Just a heads up, this game is pretty challenging, which is why I chose the easy difficulty setting. I'm still in the middle of the game, but so far this game has been a lot more fun than I gave credit for.

I enter the first room the enemies already bring me to half HP I continue to explore the first flor I find food and I go back to a good HP I enter a door with some light (it's the new flor) a few minutes pass and I die from another enemy 11/10

fun and polished little roguelike, i love that you can change the color pallet and try different builds each run. a gameboy color classic

For this price - it's okay. Cutesy little rougelite that can be devilishly hard on anything above easy - bosses have a tendency of teleporting right on top of you and giving you barely any time to react and being huge damage sponges but the gameplay is pretty solid and doesn't get boring too quickly thanks to that difficulty level. Couple bugs here and there like doorways leading to nowhere or level sometimes spawning without any keys and you have to reload but nothing too gamebreaking. It's alright, nothing super special, but nothing too bad either, fun for a couple of hours of playtime.

Anyone not recommending this game is a big baby. You need to check your diaper, seriously. The controls are fine. Yes, it's hard. Hard does not mean a game is bad. It means you are bad. I am also bad. But I have played enough video games to know this is competently made. What I really like about it is that it has an inventory system. This is actually quite unique for this style of game. At any time you can open it and use consumables that do a few different things. Spells also have uses as well as a mana requirement, making the safe ranged options something to carefully consider. The enemy designs are varied and all quite threatening. I think these toddlers throwing their pacifiers at this game are upset because they want some sort of progression or God forbid MORE MECHANICS!!!!!!!!! PLEASE BLOAT THIS GAME I AM SO BORED!!!!! Grow up, infant. They were expecting every other painfully bloated roguelike where every time they get rocked they can get more hp before the next run. Sorry beeyotch, you are going to have to actually play the game this time... This is not your grandmas flavour of the week roguelite feelgood powerup baby powder gerber grow up plan. This is a man's game. It's an arcade style anal cleansing that does everything but steal your quarters. Again, grow up.

It's a good, fun, simple game. It leaves me with one burning question, though: WHY is this game 1.5GB in size on disk??? First of all the game looks like a Gameboy game and should only be like 100MB at most, but let's just ignore that. Let's look at some facts, not vibes (though, I agree with the vibes). The game when it's downloaded takes up the full 1.54GB of space (in what appears to be entirely Unity asset folders), but when it's downloading it only takes 271MB of network to download. This is roughly a 6x compression, meaning a lot of this space is probably wasted/zeroed out? I looked at the files installed on my system and the majority of the space seems to be taken by the assets for the game, which, given that everything is 16x16 or 32x32 PNGs, this seems ridiculous. Some similar games: The Binding of Isaac, a game this is clearly inspired from which is NOT pixel art, with I would assume more content, multiple expansions and expansions to the expansions, etc., only takes 600MB on disk after installation. Deltarune, another pixel-arty game that I picked because it purposefully is multi-medium and does way more than just pixel art, is only 900MB, and that game is pretty massive. Deltarune even uses Gamemaker Studio, so it's comparable in that it's also using a giant toolkit for development like how this game uses Unity. I've never felt like the following phrase was appropriate until now: code smell. This giant size is pointing that something in the software stack has gone wrong. Either the assets are being blown up way too big for what amounts to 16x16 pixels, or Unity is adding a bunch of crap to the assets without the developer's knowledge, or Unity just kinda blows. Maybe my perspective is skewed, because as a software developer I start getting seriously concerned about my binaries when they break even 50-100MB, but... this really doesn't seem right. I'm just hoping this game doesn't include a crypto miner or something because that's where my head goes when there's such a size discrepancy. I'm hoping this doesn't become the second game in my "Trojan?" category in my Steam library.

It's like Binding of Isaac, but not as good. I think the main problem is your attack. If you are too close to the enemy it doesn't do any damage, as the attack overshoots. This feels very awkward & unintuitive.