Warlocks vs Shadows

Alright, I feel that I got the most of this game within my ~6hours of gametime. Let's see why exactly I clicked Not Recommended button. Quick summary Pros: -Fun, fast gameplay with some skill involved -Many heroes to play, all of them have distinctly different abilities -Loot system provides basic customization Cons: -Horrible UI and overall lack of critical information -Poor dificulty curve, areas 1,2 are perfect, 3 is hard as hell and 4,5 are just a breeze. Same with area bosses -Certain areas have extremely repetative gameplay, spawn points allow for easy abuse -Almost no replayability aside from trying new hero Breakdown Gameplay: Wave based action with some loot and skill progression. 5 Areas, 5 bosses. Many different heroes to play. Simple and elegant. Loot: You have 5 slots that you can equip dropped items to, there are few stats and around 10 Special Abilities attached to the items themselves. Not much creativity but does the job Classes: Truly outstanding feature of t...

Great potential. Needs work. Pros: _Excellent characters: If you're a MOBA fan, you're gonna have a good time here. Characters are varied in term of play style and a lot of them are fun to play. 5 are unlocked at the start, with more unlocked as you play the game. Easily the strongest point of the game. _Pixel art style: A more personal point than a professional one. I really like pixel art style, this game looks quite nice in that regards. _Great boss fights: The bosses are big, bombastic, chalenging and fun to fight against. _The actual gameplay: On a minute-to-minute basis, the game is fun, nice control with lots of chaotic fights. Cons: _Terrible level design: The moment leading up to the boss fights are just rooms, each with waves of enemies spawning one wave at a time. It's really really REALLY lazy design. There's nothing to break up the pace either. No puzzles, no platforming. As good as the boss fights are, the levels leading up to them feels more like time sinks than levels...

Pros: - It's fun for a decent while solo, despite its simplicity. - Good variety of heroes to choose from. - Excellent fun when you have friends to play with. (See cons section for details). - Fast paced and can get the blood rushing. - Art style/theme is unique. - Decent music. Cons: - Pretty repetitive. - Netcode is really really bad. - Sometimes your save file will just flat out erase itself for no reason. - Totally improper scaling of enemies. 1st area is too easy, 2nd is only slightly harder, and then 3rd area destroys your face. - Rainer is the only hero worth playing? The others may have interesting themes of mechanics, but they really suck in comparison. - The developer pushes out updates at the speed of smell. I'd wager at this point that the game has been abandoned. If I could have gotten a refund for this, I would. I just gave the game and developers too much faith. - The enemies aren't interesting, and they're either really easy, or unimaginably unfair. - Horde mode is ...

There's not really much to explain about the gameplay that you can't see in the trailers. It's a 2d hack and slash that has monsters attacking in waves. After the last wave you advance to the next stage until you reach the end of an act. You level up and upgrade your skills, you can find and buy gear to increase your stats. Unfortunately, there are no unlockable abilities, only things to unlock are the characters. There are plenty of playable characters to pick from, which all play differently. Sometimes they might seem pretty weak at first, but that gets better as you level up your skills and get some better gear. Difficulty is a little unbalanced, act 1 and 2 are quite easy, 3 is insanely difficult, 4 is really easy and 5 is medium difficulty. You get a boss on the end of each act, but those are not too hard either. There's also an endless survival mode with a leaderboard to play. Can't say anything about the multiplayer part, haven't tried it yet. Unfortunately, there's not a...

Online multiplayer crashed every 10 minutes and the levels are just grinding in a small area untill a counter is reached. Though this would be a nice change for my collection but the game needs more mechanics for it to be fun.

From what I can tell, this game is alright, but just doesn't feel right. Too rough around the edges for me. Levels are too small to provide much in the way of dynamic fights. Pick the best spot for the character and camp it until the level is over. No incentive to move. Characters aren't super interesting. Their abilities are different, but only a few feel like they really play differently. Everyone has a dash of some kind. Movement doesn't feel very tight. Combined with the rough feel of abilities when moving, I find myself uncomfortable when playing.

I was hoping that this game would be similar to Hero Siege and would have decent controller support but unfortunately it doesn't. You can't remap keys and the jump is bound to up stick button which is plain awful. There's also no rumble. The game has only a couple of music tracks which get boring quite fast and plenty of bugs, one which prevents you from starting the game again after you beat it. So you are either forced to start over or wait for fixes. Characters seem very unbalanced in their difficulty as well, with ranged warlocks being easier to play and more powerful overall. While i like the aesthetics and the challenge this game poses, i can't recommend it right now, at least not until that major game breaking bug is fixed.

When I first saw the game, I thought: "This looks awesome. What's the catch?" When I first played the game, I thought: "I need to stop wasting my money." Two minutes later, I thought: "This is even more awesome than it looked. I'm so happy I supported this game. I can't wait to see where it goes." My only complaints are about usability. 1. You shouldn't have to choose a profile before being able to exit. 2. Please allow for gamepad customization. Aside from the charmingly unconventional controls, this game has a very comfortable and innate feel. The videos and screenshots do it justice, but you really have to play it to believe it. It's not that expensive, so why not support cool indie developers?

I really really wanted to like this game. It was great fun at first, but the lack of any semblance of a story really bit it for me. It was fun to bash things about and figure out the abilities for a few hours, but then got rather boring. I will probably pick it up from time to time and play it, but it is not a game I would recommend for the vast majority of people.

The game is 100% wave by wave, not a side scroller. It's kind of fun but for most people it'll probably only provide you with a couple of hours of fun. Most of the characters are not powerful enough in the early game to progress. The first character is infinitely better than all others.