Gone Viral

Was scrolling through the dungeon crawler tag when I saw this, it looked neat so I bought it. It's pretty good for an early access game right now. I like how your fans will affect your game play, I've never really seen it in other games before. Here's my understanding of it so far: Basically, each run you have a different category of fans, and you'll earn more of that particular type of fan if you do something they like. They might also get pissed off if you grab a perk they don't like. Fans will also give you loot boxes (which can be good or bad depending on what you've done) at fan count milestones. They can also vote for different special events that can happen in rooms. I don't really like how often the events happen though, they occur often enough that it doesn't feel special and turns into more of an annoyance. There's a lot of variety in the rooms too. They're varied enough that every room you encounter will feel at least slightly new. There is a room where you could unlock a new character, but it requires the use of so many keys. It seems a little bit difficult to me, especially when the room comes up on one of the earlier levels. I haven't beaten every level so I don't know if the room repeats. The perks are well developed and interesting. There's a lot of different ones and I haven't even discovered all of them yet. You won't be able to tell what they do until you pick them up for the first time, but every run after that there will be a description before you pick it up. Not every perk works well together. [b] Okay, so here's the thing: [/b] If you're impatient and used to brute forcing through the game (like me!!!) then you will die a lot, even in easy mode. Or maybe I'm just bad, lol idk. Anyways, your starting weapon isn't that good and it doesn't damage enemies a ton. The combat in this game heavily relies on knocking your enemies into the environment (such as pits/spikes/other enemies) to damage them. You [i] could [/i] get away with just smacking them with your sword, but you will not make it very far unless you plan how hit your enemies. Thankfully, there's a little arrow that shows you which way they're going to be knocked towards, so it's not too hard to knock them into a pit. I won't be saying much else in this review (right now at least) since I haven't played a ton, but you can look at other reviews since they've reviewed other aspects of the game that I hadn't thought of a lot more than me. TDLR: There's not too much but its pretty good for an early access game.