Book of Demons

Yes

~6/10, better than average, had some mindless fun with it, but the game feels like someone forgot the brakes on - it's slow, and in the end got really repetitive. While the movement and combat system is pretty okay, at points the game really tries to use it effectively, but fails at it. There are just too many functions on the two mouse buttons, and the autorun-autoattack function messes up a lot more than what it helps. Also... who maps inventory on I **AND** C keys, and maps character sheet on U? Mouse clicking is somehow...inaccurate. I was repeatedly running up and down around some monsters when I tried to disable their channeled ability. Clicking on the ground to move, trying to get into range and clicking on a small circle to cancel that summon is weirdly inconsistent. Also mouse just not good for selecting targets for spells when they group up, the game tends to pick the enemy closest to you / last damaged. The gameplay is overall okay, while being super padded and slow-progressing. Loot sucks. Your real power-spike is finding a new card (items, spells). There are magical and legendary versions of them, but they add so little to the base effects and cost so much more to upgrade that they aren't really worth caring about. If you find an effective item, or you can equip/upgrade a used card, that can be a game-changer But until that - you don't really have much to work with. If you don't find the ice or flame weapon (to counter enemy ice/flame hearts), you will only chip away enemy health. Speaking about enemy health: Enemies are a pain in the ass for most of the game, and slog for the other. I found the elemental weapons somewhere in the second half of the game, I was doing 1 damage with each click against enemies that needed 15-20 clicks to kill. Meanwhile everything was out to poison, stun, or freeze me. There is obnoxious amounts of padding in combat - shields that you need to click on, golden shields that let in one attack only before invulnerability sets in, enemies spawning guardian minions, enemies teleporting all over the space, general invincibility between boss phases... and everything ice-related is a torture between the movement- and attack speed slows, freezes and roadblocking icicles. Enemies at the end of the game are ridiculously tanky, and unless you get a whetstone(?) item and use it repeatedly, any attack of yours does a single heart damage, or breaking the ice/flame "cover" of that heart. Some enemies have 20ish hearts, even using skills is just boring in lategame, because everything is a HP sponge. You likely have well-upgraded shield, HP regen items and such so it's not a real challenge, it just drags on and on and on. And basically that is the game. Nice design, weird choice with the controls, autorun and autoattack, and lots of padding to keep you busy for a few hours. (The story is nonexistent)