Megabonk

This game preys on the same pleasure centers of your brain as slot machines and other intentionally addictive intermittent reward distributors. If you have a good run or a bad run has practically nothing to do with your gameplay and everything to do with the RNG. Don't believe me? Go look up 'megabonk afk gaming' on youtube. They literally realized that the game depended so solely on RNG that they added a tongue-in-cheek challenge calling it out. Really unpleasant 'lol so random' tone of writing and intentional retro graphics just highlight how desperately these guys wish they were vampire survivors. But creativity is expensive, and this game is ten dollars.

Second Time the Dev has just Dipped from a game with no Communication. I cannot in good faith recommend.

no updates and the dev run away ...

Fun for like 10 hours or so. Last set of achievements before the dev abandoned the game are ass.

The game has been abandoned by the dev. This isn't so much an issue with content or variety (though it desperately needs more of both) but of incompetent balance in difficulty tiers. For many characters, if you do not get enough movespeed or jumps, your run will just end about 3-4 minutes in (especially in desert) Why? The boss often will spawn beneath you, and without enough movespeed, will nearly kill you outright just from phasing up through the ground. Then all the bosses spam projectiles and ground AOEs, where if your MS isn't enough, you /cannot/ dodge. And it's made even worse because there's a selection of normal enemies who have increased movespeed, and if they spawn before you get enough +movement (Or some flavor of CC), you can't outrun or kite them so you just die. This isn't an issue for all characters because the better characters either have enough base movespeed to, you know, function. Or they start with a weapon that nullifies this issue. But the simple fact that a huge part of the roster instant fail unless they get enough of an RNG stat, through no fault of the player, encapsulates Megabonk's core issue. An issue that will not be fixed because the dev ♥♥♥♥♥♥ off with their buckets of money.

Feels incomplete needs more stuff, Meta progression, special modes etc.

I really did like this game, but the more and more I play it the more I realize theres not much soul in it. Its almost an idle game. Not that you dont play it but you dont think about it, you grab item, click level up button, afk, die, restart. That is the gameplay loop. Every time. You dont even get a build choice, if you get ♥♥♥♥ items that dont help your character your run is just over. In risk of rain you have options to trade things out with printers and the cauldrons, which you kind of get with the microwaves but you can only duplicate the items you have. If your looking for that idleish experience I think other games do it better, like BTD6. Very close to the same gameplay loop, but with 100x more diversity. Maybe this review will change, but as of now I just dont love this game as much as I did when I first started to play it.