Litha and the Sunhouse

It's very close to being a decent rogue-lite, but I feel the devs are not fully utilizing what they created, it's almost like it has the right ingredients without the experience to put it together. Let me give you an example of what I mean. To me meta-progression and challenge come together, that is the whole point, you get more progression because the challenge should increase as you make progress and get better, except in this game, there is no way to get more challenge until like 10 hours into the game after you did 90% of the hub content. So I am like okay, I just beat the game 20 times, I did 90% of the side quests, and now you going to give me a little boost in challenge? That should have happened 8 hours ago when I had my honeymoon with the game, and not when I fully optimized my strategy and barely care for a few debuffs. So I beat the game for the first time maybe 60 minutes in on my third run, kinda easy, so where is the run modifier I ask. Well, the game has a hub where you...

Obviously, I only have a few hours into the game, but I will tell you that first impressions are usually very important to me. This games first impression to me is that the developers cared a lot about the art and the quality of the product, it shows and I really appreciate that. So far, I’ve only done a few runs, but as far as being a rougelike It seems to have everything you need. Loot, keys, item drops, shops, etc. So far, I’m impressed and I’m enjoying it. I’m not sure about is meta-progression, It seems that every starts brand new and I’m not sure if anything carries over. If that matters to you, keep that in mind. The amount of different enemies and animations and art are very impressive and I am impressed with the Dave have been able to do it in the first few hours. You can tell they care a lot about this game and I bet they’ll be attentive for making updates and improvements. If the game is on sale, I say buy it and see where it goes, you can’t go wrong with ...

*chef's kiss* one of the most charming games I've ever played, with a surprising amount of run variety in store already!

You can do keyboard bindings, but not controller bindings?! Dash is set to B by default, unlike every other game in the world having it A. The first 2 bosses were 0 challenge, and there is 0 weight to the attacks. Very boring combat.

Very interesting atmosphere and art, mediocre gameplay. The game obviously looks great, with a unique, hand-drawn artstyle, but actually playing the game is rather dull. The combat is serviceable at best, lacking the oomph to make fighting viscerally satisfying, and moment-to-moment play is hampered further by an excessive amount of backtracking. Walking around is slow, and you'll be walking to and from rooms A LOT. There are teleporters, but they're too sparse to aid the pacing. This game desperately needs a "run faster out of combat" option like Enter the Gungeon (which also happens to be the most comparable game in terms of level generation) has. The other primary issue is that every passive item I picked up was simply +X stats. I believe roguelites live or die by the quality of their items, and "number go up" is the absolute least interesting way to design items. Items need to DO something; they need to change how the game feels and how you approach siutations. There are spells...

It's a really cute and honestly fun game. I'm not a big fan of rogue-type games, so I wasn't sure if I would actually enjoy this one, but I've been having a good time with it. I really like the art and the animations of the different abilities, and the environments are very nice. Sound design is pretty decent. Again, it's not a genre I play so I can't really compare it to anything, but the difficulty is honestly perfect for me. There is a good variety of enemies with different mechanics that will encourage you to keep using different abilities without being frustrating. It's not like some crazy hardcore game but if you're looking for a bit of a challenge it's a lot of fun. Considering that it was made by only two people, I found it very polished and smooth overall. I will say I did encounter one bug, which was the game freezing when I tried to change my keybinds (specifically the Dash bind). This happened both in the starting area and while in combat. Luckily the binds were saved wh...