TEMPLE of RUBBO

Everything from Sokpop is amazing!

+ Adorable aesthetics + Great OST + Impressive for a roguelite crafted, presumably, over the course of just a few short weeks/months + Good for a few hours of cute, modest fun - Stiff controls (albeit, sometimes, by design) - Lacking in anything truly unique or interesting [Score = 7.5] ----------------- 5 bucks might be a short bridge too far, but you can, at least, in theory, get enough hours out of this game to justify that price. Even ignoring the length of time most players will likely spend with this (not very many), you might be asking how said hours are spent. How's that part? Thankfully, the game is pretty darn fun! Even if there do still exist rough edges to discuss. The controls take some getting used to, but it is at least balanced around its stiffness. The game, also, conceptually, might not be, at all, creative to the extent that it is a roguelite with a couple playable characters, some loot to find (with fixed stats, mind you), bats, orcs, potion boosts, etc. To put it another way, its ambitions are extremely meddling. For those who know it, it's like a top-down, far slower-paced Caveblazers, just without the dynamic character builds and brisker pacing to keep things interesting far longer. RUBBO is a modest, charming experience you won't regret. But, even just a cent more expensive and that asking price would've been supremely pushing it. Keep in mind that some games I've played recently (like 20 Minutes Till Dawn and Tinyfolk) have brought me dozens of hours of extreme joy and are priced below this 5 dollar threshold. 2 or 3 dollars sounds more fair for something so derivative and lacking depth. That and it seems SOKPOP borrowed a LOT of their own assets from "Pocket Watch". Which is fine, but pass on the savings.