Risk of Rain (2013)

TURN BACK NOW! Do NOT play this game. It's worse than CRACK. I've only started playing this game 5 days ago and already clocked in over 23 hours. That's because this is the THE game where you go in thinking you'll put 5 minutes in, only to find out that, by design, it'll have you glued to your computer for hours and hours on end. It ruined my life... The unique rogue-like mechanics of the game all insidiously encourage long play times, as many of them are akin to gambling. These include the random item drops (until you get a powerup that lets you select items, which makes the game MORE addicting in a way), the time limit being tied to difficulty (meaning more enemies, which you need to kill to get the game's currency, appear the longer you are in a level), and your character being slow as hell until you find the necessary powerups, which means it takes insanely long times to navigate the gigantic maps of the game, all of which are largely determined by random chance. It's hard to rate the game when much of the play experience is determined by RNG, but I can say that the music is extremely good, and there's loads of artful ideas in there, such as the monster diary entries. There really should have been more maps though, as the 8 or so you do see here, while huge, aren't enough to play over and over again even with all the RNG elements. Just avoid this one. It really cost me dearly haha

Loucura

great game

Historically, it's one of the fathers of current rouge-likes. Game itself was created pretty well, but you can notice lack of experience from developers. However, they used it to create a great legacy for their title. It's a classic, which is recommended but you must be aware it's an old school game and rouge-likes were still experimental genre.

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Still worth an exploration for those who wanna know where it all started. You feel the age, the jank, but it's still a beloved game for me. So much so that I've unlocked everything in it, save for one damn monster logbook: the final boss. Jackass never dropped it, after several victories against them. But whatever, I won't hold random chance against my sense of completion. Would've been nice if the multiplayer had been updated to modern standards, but otherwise, still a great time. I'd tell you to buy it on sale, but I say that about every game. No game is worth full price these days, money means less every day. So yeah, buy on sale and have a good 2013 time.