Recent reviews by Adrich

Brutally difficult and unfair but totally worth it. Awesome and crazy in-depth magic system and lots to explore/figure out. Wand building has a lot of unintuitive mechanics that make it feel actually arcane. Game also now has a community-made multiplayer mod called Entangled Worlds that works great, lots of fun to show off all your dumb wand builds in real time.

There's a lot to discover in the game besides the initial descent. The 'final boss' you defeat to get wins is more like the end of the tutorial, look up the Sun Seed quest online for an example of some of the other content.

Probably worth playing with minor mods for a while when you first start, the game can really be a ♥♥♥♥ sometimes (known as "getting noita'd"). Exploring or testing will often mean dying and giving up your run, and there is a lot to explore and test. You can also back up your save folder if you absolutely must save scum something.

It's an unpolished mashup of features ripped off of maybe a dozen other games but it's a unique experience and pretty fun. Also A+ translations

Unit AI is absolutely awful, I keep coming back and trying to like this game but it's still mostly a game of trying to get your units to not kill themselves. Tons of random other bugs everywhere that haven't been fixed in over a year since I first bought it. Mouse interface is buggy/slow so trying to get your units to stop killing themselves often results in telling more units to do unintended things (like kill themselves) or deselecting everything.

Lots of good overall ideas but I think it's pretty poorly executed in its current state. They've added lots of new units and stuff, but there are a lot of glaring playability flaws that haven't improved over the past year. Hopefully they'll get around to it.

The campaign cutscenes are also unskippable in-game closeups of units emoting. Gets rough when your hero love to shout 'witness me' and suddenly dies trying to solo an exploding bug in the 5s you looked away, restarting the whole mission.

it's dwarf fortress

Solid roguelike deckbuilder