Genome Guardian 2

Wow. This is one of the most well thought out and polished games I have ever seen. The depth is crazy, and different builds can really change the way the game feels. Having the key parts of the buildcrafting coming *before* you start is so much better than having to rely on chancing into it during a run. "Wow, cool unlock, maybe I'll find it once every ten runs, and I'll get to play with it!" Not here. The toybox is huge, and you get to play with it all. The "ACTG" design gimmick is just so clever and well implemented. Weapons are built from combinations of up to four genes, each gene having its own sort of theme. A is rapid, C is precision, T is AOE, and G is... shotgun? Even with the 69 possible combinations, each one feels like it makes sense, given its composite parts. This extends to enemy designs as well! A is rushdown, C is shooters, T is tank, and G is... erratic? Just by looking at an enemy's color(s), you can intuit what to expect from it. The tutorial is good. What I love about it is that the tutorial never really stops until you have triggered all of its prompts. It's not a simple guide that's one and done, it waits for you to do certain things to chime in, instead of dumping EVERYTHING all at once. For example, there are these bounty objectives that you can take that have you do something within a set number of rounds (penalty for failure). Or that's what I thought. I tried to take one that said "kill 5 exalted". When I clicked on it, the game was like "Heyyy, slow down there. You know that says 'avoid' at the top, right?". It caught my mistake. DON'T kill 5 of them. Thank you, tutorial. There are also a lot of useful alerts (that don't interrupt you) for when you're about to do something dumb. Like, if your build has conflicting components, it lets you know before you launch. Cooling speed mods have no effect when you have a diesel powered core. A pierce gene has no effect on the laser, because it already has that trait built in. Anyway, this game is really good. Play it if you like pretty shapes and colors and playing around with lots of builds