Good aethetic and art. The gritty, Lovecraftian world is spot on with the art/theming/sound
Decent rouge-like elements

If only the actual game design team wasn't so lazy....

Would be more fun if the game wasn't so punishing. The enemy blatently cheats and random new mechanics are added without any indication to the player. It goes further than increased difficulty = enemies are health sponges, to difficulty = enemies are health sponges, cheat and have random new abilites you can't prepare for. You don't get beaten by anything clever, eventually it's just a stat roll. Regardless if you use the available mechanics or not.

Meta-game "village/town/base" is exceptionally grindy. It's no better than an artsy flash game. Don't expect anything to be worthwhile until you drop 8+ hours into a campaign. A campaign isn't short and takes hours of play time to get to any interesting mechanics. The game wants to be a rouge-like dungeon crawler but then decided halfway that it wanted to have more play time. "OK, let's just lock half the game behind lots of RNG loot and increase the difficulty ramp so the player has to either grind low-level dungeons for little loot or bash their head against the wall with characters unfit for harder dungeons"

Dungeons additionally become artificially more difficult by just making you backtrack and waste supplies, but you can't prepare for it because RNG dungeons mean some will have enormous amounts of backtracking and some will have next to none.

Utterly terrible UI. Feels like a flash game. Menus get glitchy if you hop between them too much.

I jumped on this game because it seemed to get a lot of praise, but even looking for the specific things many people praise the game for, they all fall flat compared to it's understated flaws. It's less about a waste of money (it's not much of a gamble to try indie games for cheap) and more about a huge waste of time.

Good aethetic and art. The gritty, Lovecraftian world is spot on with the art/theming/sound Decent rouge-like elements If only the actual game design team wasn't so lazy.... Would be more fun if the game wasn't so punishing. The enemy blatently cheats and random new mechanics are added without any indication to the player. It goes further than increased difficulty = enemies are health sponges, to difficulty = enemies are health sponges, cheat and have random new abilites you can't prepare for. You don't get beaten by anything clever, eventually it's just a stat roll. Regardless if you use the available mechanics or not. Meta-game "village/town/base" is exceptionally grindy. It's no better than an artsy flash game. Don't expect anything to be worthwhile until you drop 8+ hours into a campaign. A campaign isn't short and takes hours of play time to get to any interesting mechanics. The game wants to be a rouge-like dungeon crawler but then decided halfway that it wanted to have more play time. "OK, let's just lock half the game behind lots of RNG loot and increase the difficulty ramp so the player has to either grind low-level dungeons for little loot or bash their head against the wall with characters unfit for harder dungeons" Dungeons additionally become artificially more difficult by just making you backtrack and waste supplies, but you can't prepare for it because RNG dungeons mean some will have enormous amounts of backtracking and some will have next to none. Utterly terrible UI. Feels like a flash game. Menus get glitchy if you hop between them too much. I jumped on this game because it seemed to get a lot of praise, but even looking for the specific things many people praise the game for, they all fall flat compared to it's understated flaws. It's less about a waste of money (it's not much of a gamble to try indie games for cheap) and more about a huge waste of time.