IncreKnight

This has a lot going for it! You may have seen a thousand of these survivors-like incremental games with the radial upgrade trees and stage time limits and all that, it's a familiar formula- but this one makes it work with an exceptionally well-thought-through set of powers and enemy behaviors that really make you think through how you're moving. For example, lategame, you have these heal zones that intermittently heal you if you're standing in them. The heal zones always spawn where you currently are (dangerous, enemies are moving and shooting that way), but their scaling damage buff is critical to getting through the tankier enemies, so you need to be trying to get as many as you can. You've got your hammer, and maybe you could slow the incoming enemies that way, but it's pointed the wrong way, so right now you need to move and try and loop around them to get back to the heal in time... or maybe you want to heal right now but those super-fast rats are closing in on you and you need to just take the L and kite them for a while instead. The strongest ability, the smite, requires you to move from one end of the field to the other for maximum efficacy, so that keeps you moving too, with a specific goal in mind rather than aimlessly staying ahead of a swarm of identical HP sacks. Lots of interesting choices. It's all clearly considered and thought-through, unlike the way a lot of these games are slapped together- despite the initially simplistic and familiar mechanics, it develops a lot of depth towards the end as you figure out the most powerful synergies and the ways you need to adapt your play to take advantage of them. Room 20+10 really makes you put your experience to the test even after you've maxed out the skill tree, and it was a lot of fun. (Also, small! ~Five hours! Has an ending! Not trying to pad for time, doesn't outstay its welcome, not trying to nickel and dime you- all virtues I appreciate.)