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At the same time, it's just incredibly well balanced. I wouldn't say that it's an overly difficult game, but a lot of fights always seem to be won or lost on thin margins, and it always feels like key strategic decisions really matter; where you put your items, what classes you pick, and in each battle, how you decide whether or not to reroll your dice and how you use the resources you wind up with. There's luck involved, of course, as it's a dice rolling game, but there's also a lot of ways to mitigate your luck, and it feels like winning reliably is an achievable goal.

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This game is pretty bare bones, and yet there's a lot here. Just a solo dev + one artist made this entire game. There's no music, but the sound design in this game is kind of hilariously charming with its weird beeps and chirps, and the pixel art is really pleasant, with cool hero portraits and expressive enemy sprites; it does just enough presentation-wise to get by. It trades being fancy for having a ton of content. The selection of classes and items is quite wide, and there's tons of modes to play. If you get bored with the standard mode, you can play an endless mode where you keep having curses stacked on you, or set a custom party where you pick your classes. The cursed mode has a ton of different curses and blessings you can get in it, which increases the possibility of putting together a build that's really interesting.

I must have played this for well over 500 hours by now, possibly approaching 1000. I'm still playing it today. Seriously, I'm completely addicted to this dumb game - I've been trying to get a good streak going on hard mode or unfair mode, and it's always such an easy game to just open and play at any time while I'm watching a video or eating dinner or something. It's kind of become my new go-to when I'm just bored and want to busy myself. For a while, I wasn't sure if it would have that staying power where I was obsessed with it for more than a month, but now it's been like, about five? I haven't stopped playing it. I'm always excited to see how my next run will go.

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The crazy thing is, this game just got a huge update. That happened in 2022, so I didn't really want to judge this game based on that, but fuck it, I dunno if I'll include this game in a future list anyway just based on that. But just as I was starting to get a little tired of this game, it dropped a brand new, free content update, and just added and rebalanced so many things that the game basically became an entire new game. Double the number of classes, more than double the number of items, tons of new effects and enemies and bosses, a shitload of new modes - the whole thing just got turned completely on its head. I had to adapt to a completely new meta, and that meant sinking in hundreds more hours into this game.

I'm far from done; the 2.0 version of the game is a lot deeper and quite a bit harder and I haven't even seen every item yet, and I've been playing for a while! I don't have time stats on this since it's not on Steam, but the fact that I've probably been playing this for 1000 hours and I still have new stuff to see is absolutely wild. I still have runs where I'm seeing completely new shit that I've never seen before and might not see again.

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I can't recommend this game enough. It's 7 bucks, and it's worth your time if you're looking for a quick and easy game to pick up and play. It's pretty much exactly the dice-based roguelike that I wish Dicey Dungeons was, but it wasn't. It's wild to me that this game has gotten basically no attention; the Discord server for it is still pretty small, and the leaderboards for the 2.0 version of the game have like, maybe 50 people on it? I actually held the WR for most hard games won in a row for a while, but I've dropped down to #5, I think. It was a soft record, but the fact that I'm literally one of the only people playing this is completely unacceptable. I NEED people to discover this humble little roguelike with a modest presentation and incredibly tight design. It's easily the best hidden gem of 2021 in my opinion and it was one of the games I was most excited to talk about.

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