Abyssus

These roguelike FPS games are starting to become my favorite genre. Deadzone Rogue, Risk of Rain 2, Gunfire Reborn, etc, etc. This one misses the mark like most of the other ones do because it finds an amazing world, the underwater-maybe-haunted-who-knows area, but then just falls on it's face gameplay wise. The controls do not feel tight. The two guns I've gotten so far are super boring. How they handle the guns is sweet because you have left click do something the gun normally does, IE assault rifle shoots alot, then the right click is an alternate fire. Your base one is just more bullets that can over heat but you can still use your main barrel. Really nice. Shotgun? Buckshot and... a poof shot that's completely useless. Second rifle unlock? DMR style shot. Slow and strong. But none of these abilities are interesting or unique. You've seen them dozens of times. Take a risk. There's no reason to explore. Every room leads into a small tunnel like area where there are no enemies but 99% of these have nothing. They are just straight walks or right before a boss they have a shop. Sure sometimes there's a note that the game would do better without but that's it. There are not secret walls or secret areas you can sneak off into in each level either. The room is just what it is. An arena style room. There seems to be one small thing you can shoot called a surge something another but I don't know what it does looking for them doesn't seem worthwhile. Now the biggest issue is the abilities. Holy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ these ALL need to be reworked. A flat 15% here or there is so boring. And the 'elemental' type stuff you pick for your main fire, secondary fire or ability lock out the other abilities from getting that type. Your gun can lightning chain, fire or goldburst? Well your secondary and special ability will be stuck with something terrible to use that you probably won't even notice. I have a feeling some of these may be balanced around the permanent level ups but I HATE that style of here is a percentage health or damage upgrade permanently. It basically means you don't actually get to play the game's real potential for the first 10 or so hours because you have to grind levels to unlock the actual game the developers had in mind. The bosses suck ass. They have weird, large hitboxes, and sometimes they are attacking you AND the floor but YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY SEE the floor is dangerous because you are having to aim at their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ head. Genius move there. I had extremely high hopes for this one but man, I would have to recommend a pass. I think their next game like this would be a banger but this one is just not good. There are too many good roguelike FPS's out there to bother with this one.