Galactic Glitch

I normally avoid rouge-likes cause they are very hit or miss. Another game I wanted was cheaper with this in the bundle. I like this a lot more than I thought I would. A bunch of different weapons to use. Find powers in a run like your throw becomes a fire bomb. The best power is more crates for more drops. There are two main play styles. You can focus on your weapon damage or your grab and throw damage. For the first 10 hours I was focused on grab builds. I was having a hard time. Grab does more damage in the beginning of a run but falls off late game. Weapon damage seems to scale better. There are way more grab powers than weapon powers to balance it. Even with that I don’t find it enough. The rest of the game I stopped using grab and had a much better time. There are helper ships you can find in a run to help fight and a few of them are pretty good. It would be interesting to see a full helper build but you have to get pretty lucky to get all the helpers and powers you need to make that happen. You pick the weapon before the run and can only upgrade the damage and speed. The different ships feel the same and the perks don’t really matter. The game starts to feel the same after a while. There are 6 final bosses. Each time you beat a final boss you get a Boss Core (BC). The next run there are more levels and another final boss after the first one making the run longer up to BC2. The final boss of BC3-5 just replaces the 3rd final boss. No more extra levels. They are new and stronger enemies each Boss Core level. Boss Core 1 was a jump from BC0 but BC 1 and 2 felt the same. BC3 is way harder and a big jump up. BC 4 I did on my first try. I got really good drops. BC5 was insane! I was ready to quit because at this point I was getting tired of playing the game but I got a good run and beat the last final boss. There’s another mode you unlock after BC5 but I don’t know what it is. I didn’t feel like playing anymore. My friend beat the first 5 final bosses and runs on his first try. On the 6th run (BC5) he picked a bad weapon and lost near the end. It hurt to see. He got it easily on his second try with a much better weapon and melted everything. He almost got the true ending without losing once. He's way better at this type of game than I am. There are some challenge runs like get to this final boss with only grab that unlock some good rare items you could find in a run.

I'm quite impressed with this game. When I first played it, I sort of drifted away cus I was also playing Hades, and that comparison isn't very fair... I assume there's less money and a smaller staff behind this. Still, it is very similar: brutal difficulty that feels impossible until you learn the game and realize victory is absolutely within your grasp, multiple different areas with unique enemies, a slow-burn storyline that requires playing the game and finding unique story moments out in the world to advance, and even really great music. If you can come into this with reasonable expectations, I think it's absolutely worth the price, even if it's not on sale. (oh jeez I just checked, it's so cheap! There are games 3x this price that aren't half as good!) The music is a huge thing for me here. Aside from one song right near the end of the roguelike structure, I really really dig the music. The very first song in the first world is especially catchy, I often find myself humming it even when I haven't played recently. The gameplay is unique and interesting due to the throwing mechanic. Unfortately, it doesn't seem to be the best way to play/win, so I have mostly drifted towards other play styles, but it's a really cool idea and it's still very fun to grab an enemy missile out of the air and throw it right back at them! My biggest critique was just hinted at: "best way to play" is kind of important here. While I really appreciate the variety of weapons and perks (certainly more than I expected!), some of them are simply worse than others. I assume everyone feels this way about at least one weapon from any game, even something as legendary as Hades, but this game has multiple weapons that feel completely worthless in comparison to others. Basically, the shotgun and the sword/dagger stab thing are clear winners, some of the seeking weapons are cool, but there are a bunch of "pew pew pew" style things that do very little damage, are hard to aim properly, and tend to just sort of fly around the field not hitting anyone while you're dying... why pick options like this when you can fly right up to an enemy, blast them to bits with a shotgun, and then go to the next? Some of the perks are similar, like I was excited to get one that said I could ram enemies with my dodge/"sprint" and it would hurt them but most enemies survived the hit... then even after upgrading it all the way, I still wasn't killing enemies with it, so I'd rather get something else. I won't spoil the best upgrades to get but you should learn pretty quickly that there's one type of power that will always be extremely useful for victory, and other type that changes how you play in a fun way and is slightly less useful but still better than the rest of the powers. Overall though, it's still fun to experiment, even if you end up knowing for sure to avoid 20% or more of the stuff, and I'm impressed by the complexity of various elements and the quality of life things. I like being able to instantly teleport to any "room" on a "floor" if you aren't in combat, I like being able to turn some currencies into others during a run (although I wish I could turn stuff into the one that upgrades powers!), I like being able to test weapons out at the home base, I like stores always having health... the health is pretty brutal in this game looool this is one of those "hit enemies 100000 times over your whole run to win, you only need to get hit 4-8 times in a row to die forever" roguelikes which, like I said, felt impossible at first... but it's actually really fun to clear room after room without taking a single hit once you know how to play. Runs also aren't super long, which I like. ~45min to victory is a good sweet spot. TL;DR: Great music, good variety even if some isn't worth returning to, somewhat interesting story, addictive and challenging gameplay, reasonable run length, minor nitpicks, it's worth the price if you like games like this.

Yes, Galactic Glitch definitely has the sauce. If you enjoyed Nova Drift, you have to check this one out!

The game is fantastic. Even after >50 hours I still enjoy it even though it does have some problems.. I play on the steamdeck and I had some builds that made the game nearly unplayable. Some builds are also way stronger than others and some are strong as long as you are in the levels but are not competend at all when it comes to bosses. The resource management is weird as well. In the beginning of the run you think about every single glitch bomb if and when to use it. Later you have so much stuff you cant even use because everything is already maxed, of course depending on how early you get your build together. This especially is true in the Infinity's Edge mode, not so much in the "regular" game but it doesnt make the game bad imo. What makes come back to this game however is the soundtrack. My all time favourite band is ozric tentacles so this soundtrack definately scratches my itch. From hard industrial electric beats over heavy guitar riffs to the weird scratch-like sound in the shop room, it creates an awesome atmoshpere and keeps you engaged while the whole screen explodes in chaos. I got it for a bit over 1 Euro and I wouldn't regret the purchase if it was ten times the amount.

If you played Enter the Gungeon, this game is much easier.

Looks great, plays great, loads of fun and becomes quite challenging too. An absolute bargain at £1, though buy it bundled with 3030 deathwar Redux for ridonculous value. Reminds me of Oblivion Override in progression mechanics, theme and play style, though the core gameplay is obviously quite different.

熟練後很好玩