Grimrush

First impressions: Grimrush is a boss rush shoot em up with a juicy amount of depth. Bosses have interesting, varied, challenging to avoid attacks. Although they cover a lot of space, all attacks have generous tells, so with some practice, every attack can be dodged reliably. For new players like me, taking a hit isn't too punishing hp-wise. However, hitting the boss without getting hit yourself builds up your combo and gives you a stacking damage buff. A skilled player will narrowly avoid crazy attack patterns, rack up a huge combo, and kill bosses quickly. At that skill level, since you get a score bonus and mana boost for performing a "perfect dodge" right as an attack is about to hit you, you're still incentivized to keep things exciting for yourself. Boss fights escalate in a very pleasing way as the boss loses health. Their attacks get faster and more complex, the boss will start to mix attacks and get some brand new ones. All of the bosses are cool: an evil mechanical heart su...

Various enemy actions make you consider best options available and good pacing feels fresh. When health bar of the enemy is running low, enemy attacks become overpowering, screen is filled with tiny objects trying to take you down and adrenaline kicks in, it's feels very intriguing. On the surface, graphics seems a bit rough. But on the mechanics side, it seems to be deeply considered set, pushing player one more time. With low price of this piece, I am giving a strong recommendation for all those who enjoy difficult, but rewarding, experiences.

Bosses are fair with their tells and you will learn by dying and trying. Best lesson.

this is underated and hard

Good 3rd person boss rush game. Couple characters that you can play as with own unique abilities. Learning the strategies and how the game works takes couple hours. After that you can play it through with all the other characters and it really is worth the money imo. Many pros to give. I find the learning curve really fun and you can learn boss fights really well if you put time to it. Bosses all are really unique and interesting. Characters and their multipple abilities gives a lot of replay value as well. Only cons I'd give is that the 2D art isn't that great. Buy Buy Buy!

Fun and quirky game. Don't let the visuals fool you, if looks better in motion and when you are playing. Planning to play more when I get a chance to play games again!

i've had a bit of fun with it i just wish it had better controller support

Full disclosure, I know one of the devs and even helped to game test it a bit. But with that said, I’m going to try to be as unbiased as I can with this review, this is both for the consumer and the devs. With this out of the way, let's jump into it. Grimrush is a bullet hell, boss rush game. There are many different bosses and 3 character classes. Each character has different abilities and stats, catering to any kind of playstyle. I found myself personally changing classes quite often, depending on what kind of experience I wanted at the time. The bosses are brutal in a really fun and challenging way, each being pretty different from one another and offering a varied set of challenges, I actually really liked the variety in this game. The game surprisingly felt really different depending on what combination of class and enemy you’re fighting. Something I really enjoyed was the music, with each different phase of the boss the music would dynamically change and ramp up the energy i...