Backpack Hero

Cute pixel dungeon crawler. Far more complex than I thought at first, now have 3 characters unlocked. Reading well gets you quite far in the strats of this game.

que weno

A fun, relaxing game with a really interesting and complex central mechanic, but marred by uneven balancing and half-baked mechanics. The game starts out very easy and starts introducing more complex systems like magic or archery, but the problem is that these more complex systems do not scale well or come with any real payoff for mastering them. A basic melee build of a few shivs, a whetstone, and some basic armor is an incredibly strong build that can carry you through even late-game runs, whereas a magic build requires incredibly specific combinations of item drops and Rube-Goldberg machine level complexity to achieve even modest damage output. Likewise, archery builds are incredibly space-inefficient and require you to essentially empty out your inventory just to match the damage numbers of a basic melee build. There are other item mechanics, like items which get bonuses for having no armor, which are just straight up not viable as far as I can tell. I don't care how high the damage output is or how much regen you have, you will get one-rounded in later areas of the game if you do not have high defense, and wasting all your energy on shields is not enough. Likewise, the townbuilding in the story mode feels clunky and needlessly complex, with no real purpose other than modest percent boosts to selling items or item unlock costs. I find myself with thousands of auto-farmed food and never enough treasure. And the devs seem to know this, as you unlock a building that allows you to sell items for only treasure and nothing else, but even then I find it is always the resource I am out of. This whole system feels like it could have been taken out entirely or massively streamlined and the game would be better for it.

It has a pretty fun gameplay loop and you get to build a town.

such a great game call me the bagman shurikens/hammers/shivs are the best builds

outstanding rougelike

fun and clever little game