Solace Inc.

Radika my beloved

A surprisingly good time! I highly recommend it if you're a fan of Vampire Survivor-esque roguelikes, with recruits acting as upgrades instead of individual powerups. I really wasn't expecting to be so sucked in with this game's loop, especially at the beginning, as things started to drag along, but that changed almost immediately once the missions started changing up, and especially once I managed to recruit the Grim Reaper. He almost entirely changes how you see your builds, and singlehandedly allows you to whiz up some wacky stats. Also, the game's dirt cheap. Easily worth it.

Good game, the basic gameplay loop is "move your chracter while they and any hired recruits automatically shoot enemies," and I love the artstyle/character design. That said, the pure, almost *idle-game* like simplicity, leaves the visuals, cutscene writing, and rougelite mechanics to do most if not all the heavy lifting. With this in mind, I wish that the character you set as the leader, that is to say "the one you play as," was- instead of just being a recruit you control the movment of- a fully-fledged playable character. Allowing you to aim at enemies yourself, attack them yourself with Mouse 1, and maybe even have abilities tied to Mouse 2... perhaps made more powerful than a simple hired recruit to make the choice of leadership more than just "who do you want to start with." I know that'd throw the balance out of whack and require a lot of work, so I'll just ask you consider that idea for a potential sequel. And I do mean a 2D Top-Down sequel, not the 3D one I'm aware of, and quite frankly can't play due to my current PC's old and underpowered parts.

its like ode to castlevania but for gooners.... a GOON to castlevania.

Vampire porn stars.

hell yeah