Let's! Revolution!

Let's! Revolution! is a fun puzzle roguelite with a lot of charm. I really dig the art style. I also appreciate that each run only takes about 15 minutes, making it a great game for quick play sessions. The minesweeper-inspired gameplay loop is novel at first, and each unlocked character adds a new spin, but after a few runs, Let's! Revolution! does get a bit old.

4/10 small amount of thought but its mostly luck and chance - 20$ price tag - short

The gameplay hooks here don't appeal to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fun and creative. ~10 hours to 100% Achievements are small fun challenges. Interesting variety with different characters. Only downside: First unlocked character feels like the worst and least fun.

A *soft* recommendation. The visual style is hugely vibrant and fun, with smooth, cartoony animations which look great. It has an anarchic energy to it which I really appreciated, but it doesn’t stray into being gratingly wacky. The basic gameplay concept, of using deductive reasoning (primarily à la minesweeper) to map out safe squares and likely locations for enemies can provide some very satisfying gameplay. For several hours, it kept me highly entertained. I was also genuinely impressed by the fact that when you unlock the new playable characters, they manage to provide a substantial enough change to the core gameplay as to feel genuinely transformative. That said, there are issues around randomness – perhaps somewhat inevitably when combining a puzzle game with a rogue-lite mindset – which detract more and more from the experience the longer you play. This is not a “perfect information” game, and regardless of how flawless your logic may be, you are routinely forced to simply stab in the dark at what the correct move might be and hope to get lucky. Some of the characters (and especially the first available) operate in such a way that incorrect guesses in these situations are often not particularly punishing, giving plenty of opportunity to recover afterwards, and having a variety of upgrades that can enable you to just power through when things go wrong. Others, however, feel very poorly balanced in this regard, and sometimes have very limited viable builds which are solid enough to get you to the end of the game. In all cases, the higher difficulty settings exacerbate these problems, and in a particularly frustrating twist, unlocking new power ups through winning games can be counter-productive and make it even worse. You cannot disable any power ups, so with some characters, the unlocks often only serve to make it even harder for the RNG to smile upon you and offer you that one ability which may be entirely crucial to have a chance of completing a run. Questionable balance is regularly present in rogue-lites, and I can accept it to some degree, but when playing at higher difficulties, the difference between glorious victory and dismal failure usually feels almost entirely unrelated to anything I had any control over, which makes it hard to be invested in the result. It’s a shame, because I really did have a good deal of fun with the game despite the issues (hence my overall recommendation), but they certainly hold it back from being truly great, and they mean I don’t see myself coming back to it in the future.

I'm a sucker for games that are "Minesweeper, but more." That said, this game is fantastic. The music, art and animation are extremely satisfying, and on top of that, the gameplay mechanics are very satisfying once they click. I really enjoyed figuring out how the six character classes interact with the basic rules of the game.

Loved the game, but difficulty unlocks should be global and items/classes should unlock quicker.