I have over 40 hours of SU playtime on Android, and I purchased it here along with the soundtrack to support the developers and play on ultrawide. Ultrawide works wonderfully and allows for much more real estate when viewing maps. I'm very happy with it. Plus it has gamepad support.

This game is the genius lovechild of Dragon Warrior Monsters/Pokemon (cute, wholesome, cozy monster collecting) and Disgaea (absurdly deep class/trait/equipment/skill customization).

I use DWM/Pokemon as examples because certain monster designs are an obvious homage to those series, but with 1,201 monsters it's hard not to see some similarities across many franchises. There's also a two-paragraph biography for each monster, and the monsters are grouped into families. Each monster has one trait and can be fused with any other monster with no limitations, allowing you to create an offspring with two traits that's totally unique (the possibilities for mixing traits go over 700,000 due to the large amount of choices). You can't breed a second generation though, so no monsters with four traits, etc. But you can add a third trait through artifacts (sword, armor, helmet). Plus certain monster abilities will add traits in battle.

I use Disgaea as an example because of the deep class/race/trait options, but Disgaea honestly feels limited compared to this game. Siralim's customization is much much deeper while somehow also being more focused and effective.

Example: you can socket special stat gems to equipment as well as trick status effect slots and even spell slots. The status effect slots mimic the monster traits. So if you see a monster with a certain trait and want to gift it to another monster without fusing them, just affix an item with that monster's trait to a weapon. The same goes for spells. While each class of monster (Chaos, Life, Death, etc.) is initially limited through access to only their class of spells, you can get around that by either upgrading and changing the class of the spell gem you want from another class, or you can fully upgrade an artifact and affix any one spell gem to it with no limitations.

Other example: you can share ethereal (single charge - recharges after each battle) versions of spells to your whole party with the Generous spell gem enchantment. While regular non-ethereal charges can run out in a dungeon, ethereal spells always recharge and are always available to the other party members. This opens up a level of spell customization that you really need to test out to discover how amazing it is. Because your monsters often have traits that cause them to cast spells due to triggers (resurrection, being attacked, defending, provoking, etc.), this means you can create a custom pool of shared spells that turn one simple action into a godly chain reaction.

And all of this would be great on its own, but there's also the insane number of meaningful classes for your main character to choose from.

Want to create a group of monsters that become almost exponentially stronger the more turns pass in a battle? Choose the Reaver class.

Want to create a group of monsters that become more powerful every time they die and resurrect, thus giving you the strategy of killing your own monsters until they achieve their final form? Choose the Graveborn class.

I'm 40 hours in and I haven't even gotten to the ridiculous number of other classes yet.

Also, just throwing this out there, the post-game content is mind-boggling. There's so so so so much. Castle customization. Mini-games. Missions - oh the missions. Fight gods. Fulfill prophecies. Become a bounty hunter. Play slot machines. Do arena battles. Or just focus on trying to collect every monster.

Someone once said: "The definition of a great game is how many meaningful choices it gives you."

Every choice in this game is meaningful. You'll be theorycrafting the perfect party in your sleep. Then you'll test it out and it'll work wonders, and then you'll have another great idea. Then it's back to the drawing board.

That said, here are my minor nitpicks:

1 - Certain stat chain reactions can cause you to sit looking at the screen for 30 seconds while stat changes echo through your party. This only happens if certain traits are either randomly generated in Unstable Realms or if you create a party focused heavily on cascading stat effects. Some people may love it but it messes with the flow for me. Luckily, it doesn't happen often at all and there is an option in the gameplay menu to skip "0 stat" effects so that effects with a null value don't pop up during a battle.

2 - Crashes and very occasional lag. In 40 hours of play, I've probably had 5 - 8 crashes. None of those have happened in my last 10 hours of playing, so it may have been due to a certain monster or build I was running. Maybe 5 times I've had terrible lag that cleared up after about 30 seconds. I think these things are just the price you pay for having a game this deep with so many interacting variable.

3 - You can't Inspect enemies before a battle if you're not at the top of the timeline. This means a battle can kick off and you'll just have to wonder what is going on until it's either your turn or the battle resolves. If you get wiped out without even getting a turn, you can check the Battle History to see what happened on each turn but there's no option to replay or view the individual monsters/traits/equipment you were battling against. This is probably my biggest gripe.

That said, this game is way too good to be so niche. I wish more people could find it because when Siralim clicks, it REALLY CLICKS. The gameplay loop is pure addiction.

Buy it. Buy it now.

The selling point of the game are the crazy combos you can make, and it does deliver that in spades. But the meat of the game is an old-school JRPG-style grind, and it takes actual hours before you start unlocking any fun or interesting combos.

I can see the appeal, but it just isn't for me. If the game were tighter - introducing fusion sooner, giving you more control earlier over personality traits, introducing more monster variety more quickly - I might like it more. but as it is it just feels like the game wants you to sacrifice hours of your life before you start having fun. If I could give it a neutral rating I would; I really wanted to like this game, but it just ain't it.

Unique Style of Turn Based,
Roguelike Turn Based RPG with a lot of features,
Many builds with custom macro for making auto-battle