Hell Clock

Hell Clock feels like Path of Exile-lite with a story rooted in actual Brazilian history. If you're experienced with PoE, the game's skills and systems will feel really familiar to you and you shouldn't have problems with completing the story mode within 5h or so. It also has an endless mode, but then you're probably just better off playing PoE or another, more fleshed out aRPG. For what it's worth, I think it's is quite fun and the Canudo's war was an interesting topic to explore for someone who has never heard of it. The game might be a bit too short for its full price tag, but it should be a good purchase on a discount.

It's alright. - The game has a unique visual style that (combined with some odd UI choices) causes legibility issues sometimes, but is otherwise striking and capable of setting an oppressive tone. - The items / passives you choose for your build feel impactful, but narrow in their scope and interactions, so once you pick "Build X" your subsequent choices are basically made for you and all else falls to the wayside. - Outside of "beeline" upgrades like increased meta-currency rates or inventory space, a majority of your upgrades feel boring, unimpactful, or uninspired (like 5% resistance to a specific element). There are multiple meta-progression systems that feel incongruous with each other, tonally and / or mechanically, but do offer a feeling of progression between multiple playthroughs if you so choose. - The titular hellclock doesn't add much to the experience. Sometimes you feel frustrated that you've run out of time (possibly due to bad luck with +30 second item drops) and have to end a run prematurely, but oftentimes I'd forget it existed, with runs either ending from boss encounters or narrative stops. On paper, it's a clever idea for preventing overpowered runs from going further than intended, and it hypothetically keeps you engaged and focused on efficiency, but in practice it's either annoying or forgettable. - The narrative focus on Brazil's Massacre of Canudos is novel, if not a bit dark, but the game kinda drops you into the story without much explanation, and by the end I felt like I only had the bullet points to work from. There are times when characters, enemies, or settings will be introduced that will lack impact without the background knowledge of Canudos - which Hellclock does not always provide. - The campaign is decent and enjoyably short. Your mileage may vary depending on your skill level though, as the levels all contain the same exact layouts and content, so if you get "stuck" in your progression, the repetition can become intense. This also means that any "new game+" / "Ascension" runs you do will become increasingly dire, which is at odds with how desperately the game wants you to play through multiple subsequent runs. I don't think Hellclock is good enough to warrant the 200 hours of repeated playthroughs it wants from you, but I do think it's worth playing through the 8-ish hour campaign once, for those already curious.

For the price honestly it's probably a buy, definitely on sale if ARPG is your thing. Fun gameplay loop, only trouble is that basically all oif the gameplay mechanics have been done better and deeper by other similar games - bosses (in act 1) are uninspired, run circles around them casting to win - items feel impactful, the trinkets and systems are basically lifted from POE / LE - the permanent upgrade tree is very uninspired (+HP, +Mana, +currency gain, + relic/trinket slots - Game drops to 50fps from 144fps when enemies swarm on the screen, and they do that a lot.

That's outrageous. I'm not going to buy DLC that costs just as much as the base game just to finish the story. That kind of thing should be banned. Since the update, the game has been lagging, too—no DLSS or other improvements. But I didn't like the game because of the pricing structure. Downvote the game for such a rip-off.

Não deu 3 horas de jogo ainda, mas não tem como não vir aqui e dizer que é um jogo muito bom, baseado em um evento da história do nosso Brasil e que foi muito bem feito, tanto a jogabilidade quanto a arte do jogo. Esta de parabéns! Recomendo e muito!

it's okay

极不推荐，从设计上让肉鸽和刷宝做到互相冲突的拧巴游戏。各种限制让你多刷局外的肉鸽，但是肉鸽bd根本就对局内没有影响，纯粹用数值卡人进度。刷宝只能刷出来提升数值的黄装和护符使用，作为一个刷宝游戏的装备系统竟然是纯数值？局内刷出来有质变的遗物*必须*留到以后才能用，并且被肉鸽体系的遗物格子上限卡住。刷宝和肉鸽最大的乐趣是即时反馈和重玩价值在这个游戏里全被摒弃了，就算你刷出来了好东西你这把也用不上，升级雕像给的那些数值也并不能帮你顺利平推，整个流程都一直在给玩家负反馈。