Picked this up after seeing it on a whole bunch of game of the year lists. I've put about ~10 hours into it now, and it's well worth a buy especially if it's on sale for 10bux or less. Cleared the Warrior's entire route, first stages of everyone else's, and the first two of the Jester's route. The variety in combat mechanics between characters is stark, and the level they go to to provide variety is kinda insane. They REWROTE EVERY SINGLE GAMEPLAY MECHANIC JUST FOR A SINGLE LEVEL just to play along with the gimmick of that level(Parallel Universe), for christ's sake. The Jester plays with a deck of cards that randomly flow into the playfield, and at least in his first quest, you can get a compounding runaway effect so strong that it can sometimes kill enemies on turn one. It's crazy, and it all works so well. The humor is mostly quaint, rather twee stuff, trying to be disaffected at times or VERY internetty at others, not everything lands for sure, but it's definitely made me laugh at least a few times and all the characters are great.

Runs are pretty short, I don't think anything lasted more than a half hour without either beating it or getting killed, so it's great pick-up and play stuff. Only had one major bug, a crash-to-desktop when saving midrun that then consistently CTD'd whenever I tried to load the save which super sucked, but I was able to just restart the run and continue on.

Definitely a good time-to-money ratio, if that's a thing that matters to you. There's at least 36 missions in the game, probably more, since there's another unlockable character once you finish everything(it's probably a dice form Lady Luck, which I would love to see)

edit: oh yeah the music is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ outstanding, the battle music is weird, funky, and flows so well with the gameplay. only problem is the map floors often are simply silent, which might be a bug, and once you start getting good at the game, you tend to not get to listen to the battle music much which is a shame, since Chipzel, the composer, makes really good chiptune music.

Picked this up after seeing it on a whole bunch of game of the year lists. I've put about ~10 hours into it now, and it's well worth a buy especially if it's on sale for 10bux or less. Cleared the Warrior's entire route, first stages of everyone else's, and the first two of the Jester's route. The variety in combat mechanics between characters is stark, and the level they go to to provide variety is kinda insane. They REWROTE EVERY SINGLE GAMEPLAY MECHANIC JUST FOR A SINGLE LEVEL just to play along with the gimmick of that level(Parallel Universe), for christ's sake. The Jester plays with a deck of cards that randomly flow into the playfield, and at least in his first quest, you can get a compounding runaway effect so strong that it can sometimes kill enemies on turn one. It's crazy, and it all works so well. The humor is mostly quaint, rather twee stuff, trying to be disaffected at times or VERY internetty at others, not everything lands for sure, but it's definitely made me laugh at least a few times and all the characters are great. Runs are pretty short, I don't think anything lasted more than a half hour without either beating it or getting killed, so it's great pick-up and play stuff. Only had one major bug, a crash-to-desktop when saving midrun that then consistently CTD'd whenever I tried to load the save which super sucked, but I was able to just restart the run and continue on. Definitely a good time-to-money ratio, if that's a thing that matters to you. There's at least 36 missions in the game, probably more, since there's another unlockable character once you finish everything(it's probably a dice form Lady Luck, which I would love to see) edit: oh yeah the music is fucking outstanding, the battle music is weird, funky, and flows so well with the gameplay. only problem is the map floors often are simply silent, which might be a bug, and once you start getting good at the game, you tend to not get to listen to the battle music much which is a shame, since Chipzel, the composer, makes really good chiptune music.