The bad reviews recently are expecting too much - because the game is fun. It's a good sign they care too much and want more lol. But don't get it twisted - the game is cheap and totally fair price for the content! It's worth it!

I have 2 more hours in the demo to add up to about 5 hours of gameplay.

I understand it's disappointing the game isn't as deep as people want it to be, but it's a very cheap game - of course it doesn't have a lot of content. The mechanics that are there are polished and the item arts are all pleasing to see together in a complete build. The gameplay is fun!

The character with lifesteal (that converts armor symbols into max health) is definitely the strongest by far, and the starting character seems to be 2nd strongest, and both are still very fun. I've won the game with several builds though, I don't understand why everyone is complaining about build diversity so much.

I think it's unfair to say there's no build diversity though! Here's all the builds I can think of:

Here are the builds I've won with for example:

• Dexterity + debuffs (shinobi, bleeds, poison, etc.)
  
• Strength damage (just strength buffing and big strength symbols and big armor symbols)
  
• High Damage Symbols (any I could find, i was going biggest number, not so much synergy)
  
• Bow build (Multiple poison quivers and regen arrows with hawk pendants)
  
• Debuff build (wands that increase all debuffs and many different debuffing symbols)
  
• Wand mana build (max mana-increasing symbols, and wands with scaling damage off max mana)
  
• Burn build (stack fire as much as possible. pretty magic heavy)
  
• Bomb build (bomb swords that deal more from bombs, and crates that spawn bombs)
  
• Blacksmith hammer (repair rusty/primal items)
  
• Defence = damage (forgot the symbol name but scales off defence, so I focused more on high defence symbols)

And here are some builds I haven't won with. They still seem interesting:

• Axes build (haven't lucked out with the big axe symbols yet when i try this build)
  
• Cooldowns build (legendary item that resets cooldown of adjacent symbols. i was close to winning!!)
  
• Thorns build (never even tried to get close to this, but might be possible?)

There are lots of items that are basically staples in every build, like the shield that gives 20 defence, and buffs damage, but there's definitely plenty of builds to try out!

And for those complaining about the items being unreliable or easily miss the mark - it's literally a slots-like game. Also, removal symbols are so cheap, buy them at every store I swear, it's so easy to swap in better symbols late for your build if you stay stocked up on them.

After playing for 30h, I can say that the game feels not finished.
Here is my opinion on what feels missing from the game:
Leveling up characters feels unrewarding -> Add special characters items in the item pool
All characters get the same items to choose from each run. -> Need unique items per character.

So with adding some content, this game could be fun, but for me the lack of variety is a bummer.

3.5/5