Neophyte

Its a fun game to fill some hours with. Experimentation is rewarding, and trying new combinations can give unepected results.

its good esp for the money haters are dumb

Great game! Nice musics, designs and overall ambiance, even better with all the latest content. When do we get the infinite level and the custom build ?

Neophyte is a game where you use your collection of abilities and buffs to cull a horde of dudes. It's not an interesting premise, but it's one of my favorite games due to how engaging it is at all times. The requirements to beat Neophyte can split up into two key skills; build-making and split-second decision making. Making a good build and understand how to play it is important to clearing out enemies efficiently, and being comfortable with the game's base mechanics (knowing when to dash, when to use defensive spells, etc) is important to surviving short bursts of intense damage. But the critical thing to understand is that your decision making cannot fully make up for your poor build-making, and vice versa. If there are too many enemies, it doesn't matter how good you are at the game, you'll still die. If you're taking a lot of damage, it doesn't matter how good your build is, you'll still die. This is ultimately why I keep coming back to Neophyte, because it doesn't let me automatically win even if I get an incredibly powerful build, or if I get good enough at the base mechanics with a subpar build. I'm still liable to take massive damage if I don't take the right precautions, and there's still interesting decisions to be made in my builds. The abilities never read as "crazy," but they're valuable puzzle pieces that you can choose to add to your build, and they're consistent, too. There can be a spell in your arsenal that has no synergy with the rest of your collection, but is still important because it plays a valuable role in your gameplan. This is the principle that I think makes games like Slay the Spire phenomenal; not forcing the player to make a "burn" build, or a "attack speed" build. These games punish you for thinking in that simple manner, and I really enjoy it. This game hasn't been updated in a while, and the developer has stated that there aren't any more updates planned. But like....this game has a lot of content for only costing $3. I've seen many games cost $15-20 and have half of this game's content. If you end up loving the game like I do, this is a complete no-brainer of a purchase. The question is just whether you think you'd enjoy the game as much as I do, and I hope my review has given you an idea of how you'd answer that.

I saw some people muddling the reviews calling this "abandonware" and whatnot, but for a game that didn't even cost me 3 bucks, I sank like 20 hours into this and had a great time. Even if it hasn't been updated in 2 years and then suddenly got put out of ea, for the price it has enough content. More would've been nice, sure, but some of y'all are asking for a bit much at this price point. I put less hours into games I paid more for. It's fun, worth the price, that's all really

Cool and entertaining game, lots of content for it's price

Even though it's abandoned, it's still a good game and worth your time