Ascend to ZERO

TLDR 10/10 game considering the pricetag. If you enjoy roguelites even a bit and this looks in any way interesting to you, try it or at least play the demo. The timecontrol aspects is genuinely a unique and fun idea. Honestly this game is an absolute gem and the fact that it only costs 10 bucks (even less with the sale) is franly ridiculous, i would have happily paid double that and it would have still felt like a good deal. I burned 5 hours in the demo alone and had an absolute blast before now upgrading to the full version. Positives: - The overall art, graphics and character design are awesome. - Upgrades actually feel weighty and worthwile and you can tell when you finally unlock an upgrade youve been working towards. - Really the amount of depth this has for the pricetag is ridiculous with each character having a completely different playstyle and then several different builds for each character. - The time mechanic is really interesting and well implemented. Ive had several times where a boss encounter seemed unfair at first until i froze time and actually took a moment to look around and understand what was going on. - The company behind it seems pretty involved with the community side of it as well with the official discord already running events and competitions. - It controls well - Soundtrack is pretty good A few, small negatives: - When upgrading from the demo to the full game the full game doesnt properly carry over some of the achievements. Everything else carried over seamlessly. From what ive seen in the discord this is already being worked on. - The game does a good job of explaining most ot all of its mechanics but it does lack some detailed explenation for more in depth stuff, like how exactly certain numbers are calculated and what effects what.