Inkbound

Wish I could recommend this. Its a decent game, however it got abandoned too early. What could have been a fun tactical roguelite now fails to deliver longterm motivation.

unironically a great game, but why is this abandoned? If this was still receiving updates and maintenances it would have been one of the coop rougelites of all time. now it just feels lackluster in more ways than one.

First of all I want to lead with the fact that Inkbound is a roguelite in a weird spot. The closest comparison I can honestly make is the two Hades games, because Inkbound has a surprising amount of story in addition to its turn based position based combat. The story is delivered with some genuinely really great voice acting and you can really see the love that everyone who worked on this game put in. So what about gameplay? Inkbound offers you a selection of classes, each of which supply you with three basic abilities and a passive skill. Over the course of the run you will upgrade these abilities in smaller and larger ways and find some generic skills that each class can acquire. Add to that an item system where you basically have a small inventory of things that have passive abilities but are also each part of a set or family, like physical attack or improving the currency (Kwillings). Quite a lot to consider! In combat you will move around your character to position them so you can line up your attacks and ideally evade those aimed at you. You have a limited amount of energy to use your abilities so more often than not each individual turn is its own little puzzle. You move from combat to non-combat encounters until you end up in a boss fight. Beat them to go to the next region. Each run consists of two regular regions and one very short boss region, so said runs don't overstay their welcome. With all that said, I would recommend Inkbound to everybody who likes tactical combat with a focus on positioning, but also those who enjoy roguelites who do something else than deckbuilding, isometric action or the bullet heaven style.

This game is a completely solid, fleshed out and expansive experience and is a complete product. The devs announced the game was “done” and for some reason people are saying that means it’s “abandoned” ??? Is Nintendo putting out updates to super mario bros on the NES ? Extreme example but same principle… why must a dev support a game for the rest of eternity. The game is not unfinished, it does not feel unfinished, and it does not feel like it’s missing anything. There is plenty to unlock. It does not feel buggy, it does not crash. It’s a great game

Devs cashed out to work on other projects its not being updated

I really liked this game till I got hit with game breaking bugs just to find out the devs no longer support this game. Seriously what devs won't even fix basic bugs every now and then.... Can't even progress the story, 20 hours down the drain.

Amazing game, truly. Unfortunately it was abandoned by the devs to focus on Monster Train 2 and wont be receiving any (much needed) future updates. It has the bones to be an amazing game, but is missing a bit of variety and content that is needed to make a roguelike like this one remain fun long-term. The first dozen or two hours are great, but once you've been through the classes and bosses it gets repetitive.Still, it's unique enough that it's worth it picking up on a steep sale if you can.