Going Under

i like this game but i wouldnt reccomend it to fortnite players. this is basically a horror game for them.

A charming experience from start to finish. Feels like a fresh air.

An absolutely fantastic roguelite that has great writing and very clever level design. I also really appreciate the ability to edit the difficulty so people with less time can enjoy the game. There are some large difficulty spikes, particularly one dungeon in the second half of the game in which the RNG nature of the game can get fairly frustrating, but overall this is a fantastic game with a wonderful soundtrack and I cannot recommend it enough. I played the game on CachyOS and had no issues with compatibility.

A wonderfully charming little roguelike! First, the positives. The art is so creative, it really evokes that "we're a corporation but we are also your friends!" type vibe. The character, monster, and world designs are likewise very well done. The writing is FANTASTIC. It is funny and extremely relevant without making one feel like they are being moralized to. The combat wasn't exactly deep, but I had a fun enough time with it. I enjoyed playing around with the additional skills and mentors in order to customize each run. Now, that's where a negative come in. I think the entire final boss sequence really made me grumpy. The entire game you have had opportunities to try out different build combinations between skills and mentors, and it really helped me feel like my play-style was viable. But for the final sequence of boss(es), you don't have the ability to do that. Furthermore, a good chunk of the skills you have used up to that point are completely useless in those specific arenas. It was extremely aggravating. It annoyed me so much that I decided to turn on assistive features (despite not needing them for the rest of the game), because the RNG heavy nature of each of these boss runs just felt like a waste of time. It didn't feel like a skill thing, it felt like a luck thing. And ya know, they helped. I still died a couple times (which further irritated me lol), but we got through it. Generally speaking, I don't think changing what kinds of builds are "allowed" in the final section of the game is a good idea, but that's just me. That said, it speaks to the absolute charm of the rest of it that I am still convinced that it is at least a 4 star game. It's fun, if a little mindless, and a nice thing to commiserate the fall of our artistic world to the sheer greed of corporations and generative AI to.