Recent reviews by pork sandwich

refreshingly tight experience, well worth the money

too grindy

Just enough mechanics to make a good game and it's got the sauce on top of that. Play it if you like games being insanely hard in a way that melts your brain

Functional yet charming aesthetics, good gameplay, absolutely bangin soundtrack.

Some roughness around the edges and just barely works on the Steam Deck but overall great.

all the adrenaline of CS without any of the map memorization

good

Amazing, must have for anyone with a VR headset

TumbleSeed is a much slower roguelite than the ones that have hit the mainstream recently: Nuclear Throne, Spelunky, Binding of Isaac, etc. We're talking several orders of magnitude slower: killing a single enemy early on requires thoughtful planning and careful, patient execution, and even with the seed powers you might get later, you have to exercise great patience to ensure the kill happens. In a single run, it has taken me as long as 10 minutes to clear the first area of the mountain.

The beauty of TumbleSeed, in my opinion, is this emphasis on planning and thought. Execution, while still extremely important, takes a backseat. Enemy patterns are simple and easy to learn, but movement is very difficult, so TumbleSeed asks you to find the SAFEST routes and solutions, rather than the quickest. Enemies can relentlessly chase you down. If they hit you you face possibly losing a lot of resources, but worse, they can put you into a position you didn't plan around.

All in all, TumbleSeed delivers a game unlike anything I have played before, and manages to execute a good roguelite structure, from its items and powers along with its level generation and enemy design.