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This is one of those situations where I wish Steam gave a side-thumb option. Legacy of the Moonspell is a perfectly serviceable... and also largely unextraordinary experience. What's wrong with it? Putting it simply, the things on offer within are by and large quite mediocre compared to what was already on offer in the base game.

Of the Eight new characters, only one of them really stands out. Not for being notably powerful, but just for having a really fun and interesting gimmick. The rest of them are also very gimmicky... but are underwhelming gimmicks, at that. Further, of the seven new weapons and six new evolutions, only TWO are noteworthy such to likely find a place in most builds, and only one actually stands out in a way no other weapon currently in the game does. The new map is cool... the first, second, maybe even third time. But the novelty wears off. It can be rather annoying to navigate, particularly if you're like me and always go for Reaper kills and by proxy always need to find both rings and both Metaglio in every run. The Metaglio are easy, but one of the rings is stuck behind a long winding path that starts almost at the halfway point of the map and is surrounded on all sides by cliffs that you can't cross otherwise. Its annoying. Especially after the first time.
Especially once you realize there isn't really much reason to go back to the map for successive clears. Grab the "relic", grab the coffin, and kill 6000 of one enemy type that won't take very long since it spawns in waves every run (Especially if you've already cleared or progressed heavily into the base game and have access to things like full Charm upgrades), and you're done. Everything else is unlocked via evolving the weapons or surviving as the DLC characters.

I could go into detail about each of the weapons and why they are/aren't very good, but if you're going to buy this, you'll find out for yourself fairly quickly. So I'll just mention the two that stand out: Silver Wind and its evolution Festive Winds are fantastic. Not only are they great at clearing in the early game and don't fall off over the course of run, but they also finally add an early game base-weapon healing option, as things hit by both will periodically spawn small hearts that you can pick up to restore 2 health per. Not as effective as the consistent healing of Bloody Tear or especially Fuwalafuwaloo, but also doesn't require the annoyance of fusing multiple weapons together and taking up slots for part of your run. And more than enough to sustain you both in the early game, and during the late game when you'll have Crimson Shroud + Armor.

So why am I recommending it after spending most of this review putting it down? Because at the end of the day, It's 2 bloody dollars. I didn't dislike my time with it at all, and genuinely, Silver Wind is quite useful and a welcome addition to any run. In the end, $2 for more good of an already great game is still bargain in my book, even if its overall somewhat disappointing compared to the base game. If given the choice again, I'd still buy it just to support the developer.

But if you're in some bizarre situation where you are somehow financially only able to handle buying ONE dirt-cheap Vampire Survivors DLC, go for Tides of the Foscari instead.

Okay so, Vampire Survivors.

Simple little game, but extremely satisfying. I played about 21 or so hours in Early Access and the rest of my time has been spent post-DLC 2, for which I started a brand new save to get back into the swing of things since it had been so long. As of now, I've 100%'d the game.

If I had one serious complaint about this game its the distinct lack of a "reset progress" button anywhere. Resetting your save is bizarre, requiring you to go into the official discord server and download a fresh save file to overwrite your old one. Any attempt to delete my save prior to doing this failed. Its a true anomaly of design.

Aside from that though, there's little to complain about. The game is simply phenomenal, and functionally bloomed a new genre of really great little offerings. If you're a fan of the genre and want to see the game that springboarded it, or just are curious with a couple of bucks to spare, there's no reason to not jump in. It's a ride worth taking.

This ♥♥♥♥ ain't Torchlight. Has nothing to do with the previous games.

There are better ARPGs. If you really want to get some of that Torchlight goodness again, go reinstall TL2 with some fresh mods. There's plenty of em on the workshop.

Coffee Stain care more about Squats than Games Workshop ever will.

All the fun with none of the sexual harassment allegations.

If you like shooters and roguelites, just get it. Don't bother sitting here reading reviews.

Honestly, one of the best indie games on Steam, and probably the best FPS Roguelite.

Been playing it on and off since it first hit the platform and it has only gotten better. Devs have been extremely involved, constantly having added new content and patches at a very consistent pace. The characters all feel fun to play, the bosses are interesting and amount to more than just "bullet sponges", and the build of any individual run can vary heavily based on what upgrades you happen to find, and just about all of them are viable.

Hopefully now that the game has fully released they'll continue to support it in the same way, either via smaller updates or DLC for us to get.

But even if they don't, there's plenty of content here to keep you interest for quite awhile, and it only gets better when you bring friends.

Valheim is by and far the best "Chill game" I've ever played. It takes all of the typical tedium and stress of survival games and streamlines the whole process to a point where there's very little to be worried about. The downside is that the game is exceedingly easy if you're even a remotely competent gamer, but that's frankly fine for my tastes. Valheim is the game I boot up when I don't want to think, and I just want to mindlessly progress or build.

That said, fore warning that the latest patch, Hearth and Home, is not actually much in the way of an update. Despite being billed as a major content patch with them going so far as to commission that animated short for it, it really is extremely lacking compared to what one would expect. It ultimately amounts to a few tweaks (and said tweeks honestly don't seem to amount to much beyond causing a bit more tedium at the start of the early-game than there used to be) and a very small amount of content at the very endgame.
The fact we waited a year and this is all we got for the patch is somewhat depressing, but I'll reserve judgement on the developers until we see what they can give us next time. After all, the game was a wildly unexpected success, the dev team started out extremely small, AND it rose to prominence at the height of the pandemic. If the NEXT patch takes as long as this one did however, and the content within it is as barebones as this one, I will have concerns.

All that aside, though, if you're brand new and thinking of picking up the game, that won't affect you. Valheim is fantastic, and there's plenty of content to chew through. If you're a previous player however, and you were waiting for Hearth and Home to come back and experience more content, I'm sorry to say that there regrettably really isn't enough here to be worth it, unless you're like me and would be playing to chill anyway.

I nominated this game for the "Better with Friends" Category in The Steam Awards.

The reason why should be obvious.

I've lost control of my life.

Robbie Rotten did all the voice acting for the generic Vikings in this game.

Free promo starts immediately following his tragic passing.

He was number one.