It's cool to have a limited color-palette to kick up the sleek, stylish design of your game. But for a rogue-like bullet-hell, not sure it works out. The more you power-up, the less you'll see because everything just mulches together and makes it impossible to see once you're very close to the end of your run. Is it an enemy? Is it a tornado you've just launched? Is it coming at you or coming off you? Wtf are you looking at? Dunno, they're all mostly the same color and you get no overlay or contouring for ennemies.

It's not a BAD game, but the 4-colored art design just screws everything up. Once you have tornadoes, lightning waves and multiple + big bullets spewing everywhere, you won't see crap. All you'll see is sometimes red balls hurling at you, but you won't even be able to see your character. Good luck not dying out of just not seeing sh**. At this point, it just becomes a luck game and it's really frustrating.

Good alternatives: Halls Of Torment, Death Must Die, Vampire Survivor.. Even Wedding Witch is less frustrating.

This is what bullet heaven games probably seem like to people who don't get Vampire Survivors.

This is a pretty dull and simplistic take on the Vampire Survivors formula. You move, you shoot, and sometimes you use a special move. It lacks the replayability of a really great survivor-like (or bullet heaven game). Every run feels fairly similar to the others due to a relatively small pool of upgrades and all characters playing similarly.

Visually, it's charming but lacks clarity due to the unwillingness to use more than three colors mixed with the visual chaos that overtakes the game as rounds progress. This isn't like VS where that visual madness is manageable since you're basically a god at that point. Characters have very low HP and even one hit could screw you, so the lack of visual clarity makes the game needlessly harder.

I'm not hard to please with these games. It's just that 20 Minutes lacks really anything to grab onto. It doesn't have the good feedback, the strong presentation, or the wealth of content that one of these types of games often thrives in. It's not terrible in any way, it just struggles to provide anything of note, especially when compared to contemporaries like VS, Boneraiser Minions, and Halls of Torment.

At the end of the day, 20 Minutes Till Dawn is inoffensive and will provide more bullet heaven content if that's all you're looking for, but people who have become accustomed to the high quality of games like Vampire Survivors will be sorely disappointed by the lack replay value and repetitive nature. I'd score it 5/10.

Fighting my demons...
That wasn't 20 minutes man.