Darkest Mine

A game with a fairly classic but highly effective and well-executed roguelite gameplay! Each run feels truly different depending on the weapon and powers you pick up. The visibility mechanic is a great addition to the genre. At first, you think, "Who cares about vision? I just want more damage!" But soon enough, you realize that actually seeing where you're going is pretty useful!

My playthrough : https://youtu.be/VLW7Ev7ToBU Overall: 6.5/10 - Decent Graphics: 6.5/10 • Nice, clean, minimal pixel art. • Not enough juice, every attack feels soft and lacks weight. Audio: 5/10 - Average, nothing memorable Gameplay: 6.5/10 • PLEASE make this game keyboard + mouse compatible. It's mandatory and not that hard to implement in a modern game engine. From what I played, it could easily use WASD for movement, Shift/Space to dash, mouse to control the flashlight, and left-click to attack. • The flashlight mechanic feels somewhat useless in my one-hour playtime. I don’t see the need to use it to look ahead when I can constantly refill fuel to keep my light radius big enough for the room. • At first, I didn’t realize I could dash in any direction, I assumed it was only left and right, (That’s on me because I wanted to get through the tutorial as fast as possible and skipped reading.) • When I dash into a wall, I ricochet way too much. Why? • There’s a delay between each attack, but there’s no indicator showing when the next attack is "ready." This results in situations where I jump, press attack, but the attack is still on cooldown, causing me to lose my rhythm. • The ultimate attack feels underwhelming. like, big AoE but deals the same damage, attacking three times, only the spear is somewhat good. • It's annoying to reach monsters stuck in the corners of a room. • The slingshot sucks. Its range doesn’t make up for the snail-like speed and low damage. • The downward attack is pretty good, but I feel like some enemies' horizontal hitboxes are too small. I stand close to them, but my downward attack still doesn’t connect. • There too few weapons and upgrades, by my first hour I had already unlocked most of them. • Some unlocks feel underwhelming, going from 15% to 16% is barely noticeable. A 1% increase is useless. • Each run feels mostly the same. The only time I noticed a difference was when I got the power that doubled my critical damage, which was interesting and actually changed my playstyle.