Recent reviews by ✡Buttsurfer✡

You know you are having fun when you're using your wings to fly above these inferior parasites, setting them ablaze with streams of fire expelled from your hands.

Just like the angry god you are.

Absolutely smashing.
Some short info of the game to sway you to buy it:

>Roguelike with various difficulties and modi, like Nightmare Adventure, Medium Roguelike (permadeath - read: Man mode)
>Fixed overworld map with fixed and random dungeon locations
>Buttload of interesting items & stat modifiers
>>Fixed artifacts, random artifact generation, standard stuff with 1 or more "ego" *fixes affecting various stats
>Progression with permanent (and cloud saved) unlocks
>>Unlockable skill trees (like extra schools of magic), races and classes to add diversity
>>>Some classes have special resource bars and can utilize items in unique ways, diversity is huge in this game
>>>Class design (in most cases) is simply amazing, where the game gives you the feeling that your chosen class is simply OP, until you die to your own incompetence and want to start over again just to make it better this time. A lot of the classes have very unique design as well, offering synergies, combinations of effects and other things I have yet to see in other roguelikes.
>Amazing web services, just check out a random profile: http://te4.org/users/kalmazaton
>Fixed zone bosses and possible bosses, as well as randomized mini-bosses
>A lot of room for challenge and exploration in general
>Dev involvement. Our sexy overlord drops by in chat frequently, so do some people helping out with the programming. Occasionally they will launch in-game events that range from extra dungeons to unique/interesting buffs.
>Awesome Steam Workshop add-on integration & content

Some things that may be off-putting:
>Learning curve - Even for people familiar with the genre, in the beginning you might encounter some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ moments or just have to look up the wiki for some things until you know better. The community can be reached ingame through a live chat and is very helpful, though.
>Permanent unlocks. Personally, I love the idea of obtaining new, unique and game altering choices and builds by completing challenges, but some people just prefer to have all the options available from the get go. A remedy later in this review.
>Grind. The grind is not bad, but you can make it bad by failure. If you man-tain a beard and have balls to show for, you will stick to Permadeath (Roguelike) mode, and especially in the beginning where you are getting a feeling for everything - enemies in general, boss strategies, zone order with your preferred class etc. etc. - you will die often and may end up with the feeling that you have to redo the same few dungeons over and over again.
Please, if you feel like you're stuck like this, just ask the community, or consult the wiki and look up some unlockables to keep you motivated and approach things from a different perspective.

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Things to note:

The game is free. Why buy it then?
Simple: Donor status. Even on a sale you get credited for the full price, unlocking an extra class (Stone Wardens, super defensive, dual wielding shields) as well as an item vault where you can store a handful of items (I think it was 5 with the Steam purchase) for other characters to retrieve, to give your next level 10-15 character a push.
You have to log into te4.org and tie your Tome4 account with Steam to get the boni though (unless it does this for you automagically already, no idea).

For the love of what is holy to you, get the expansion Ashes of Urh'Rok. It adds so much more content, including two awesome classes, and the pack is on a sale right now anyway.

Get some add-ons!
I recommend these Quality of Life mods:
'Purists' Breeding Pits Restoration Project - Dev got pressured to censor one area by SJWs, this undoes the censorship
NPC Forgiveness - Has NPCs forgive you after some time if you accidentally hit them with an AoE
Escorts Enhanced - Makes those random escort NPCs less of a PITA; You can now ask them where their exit point is and they have a HP regen now

Then another one for pansies: Whatever this mod was called that lets you pick all the races/classes etc. even if you don't have them unlocked.

GO BUY THIS, MAGGOTS