Magecraft

While at its current low price, one might argue that its not a big deal, but sadly this game is currently lacking in pretty much all aspects of this genre that I've come to love and enjoy. It's about the same experience as a hamburger for half the price, but its lacking a patty. If you are looking for a hamburger, likely not worth it unless you look for just a bun. I don't think I have to talk about originality of the gameplay itself. It's pretty much a clone of vampire survivors and its competitors, down to the very group of mobs swarming in from time to time. While other games advance the genre in some way, I was rather disappointed by this one. It feels like it doesn't bring all that many new aspects to the table to make it enjoyable. The interface has no tooltips, leaving you guessing what you have equipped after a while. Spells are spread out over several screens instead of having a compact single screen overview making you switch pages all the time in order to optimize. It's a hassle. The lack of other features like a map, more hotkeys or the like simply isn't as noticable because the game is so basic you don't really need most of it. Barebones areas, lacking sounds and controls to do much and repetitive gameloop. Everyone brings out half baked early access games these days, but early access tags are no excuse for a shoddy core game play. Early access is when you have a proper game that needs polish, not when you have a game prototype that barely does anything at all. That might just be my personal opinion here, as early access can be understood as pretty much anything these days. Take this opinion for what it is then. To summarize, I'd stay away from this barebones prototype, as you can find better games with tons more content, better interface, better sound effects and a better allround gaming experience for just a few $ more.