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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 198.4 hrs on record (122.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 16 Jul, 2021 @ 9:07pm
Updated: 16 Jul, 2021 @ 9:13pm

To start out, Noita is unforgiving, you will die. A lot. If you're particularly lucky or skilled, you might "beat" the game in your first 100 runs, but I have heard many people say they're at thousands of deaths without having "beat" the game. That isn't to say Noita is unfair. The vast majority of deaths can be chalked up to a mistake you made. (there are times when RNG just decides to kill you, but they're very rare in my experience)

If you don't like a challenge, and occasionally dying from something you don't understand (or commonly, depending on how much you just pick up wands and fire them), then Noita isn't for you, but if you don't mind a challenge, and have the patience to learn the extremely deep wand building mechanics, I would say Noita is one of the best games I've played.

If you're wondering why I put quotes around "beat" earlier, it's because Noita is deceptively deep. There's so many secrets in Noita that I don't think any one person could ever find all of them without outside help. The few biomes that one would go through if they were playing the game normally are easily less than 1% of the total the game has to offer. If you do play Noita, get a powerful wand, and have the courage, try exploring outside and/or digging through the extremely dense rock around to some places. There's a few different endings in Noita, and the "true" ending will take many hours in a single run to complete.

TL;DR: Noita is a very good game if you have patience, a calm head, and enjoy a mechanically deep spell system and searching for secrets.
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