Es un buen Bullet heaven con toques de RPG a lo Diablo.

No me gusta la inconsistencia de que la estética sea oscura y decadente pero que los dioses sean personajes coloridos sexy de anime y que el dialogo sea tan 'quirky'.

Pero el gameplay es muy bueno.

También añadir que es un early access así que el juego puede cambiar bastante de una update a otra, aunque lo que moleste eso ya depende de cada uno.

De una forma u otra es una buena opción como juego de apagar el cerebro y matar mucha cosa.

Death Must Die is Vampire Survivors meets Diablo 2 meets Hades and that is as potent a combination as it sounds. I was instantly hooked but quickly fell off due to a feeling of stagnation in progression. I really struggled to get past the 10 minute mark with the vast majority of my runs which resulted in me running the first bit over and over again. Since there’s only 1 map and maybe a half dozen boons per god, I quickly felt like I had seen most of what the game had to offer in its current state. Sadly, I found the personalities and dialogue of the gods to be much lacking in comparison to what Hades set forth as the standard. Let's face it, Supergiant is hard to compete with but, since the game mimics that style so heavily, it’s basically begging to draw the comparison. Very much looking forward to checking this out after it’s fleshed out into a full release because it definitely showed potential.

This game being $7 helps so much.

Death Must Die isn't a bad game, and before I hit the content wall I enjoyed what I played, but this is one of the most aesthetically derivative games I've seen sold on Steam that wasn't an asset flip. The Dark Souls dark fantasy trappings, divorced from the talented and fucking weird staff staff at Fromsoft doesn't leave much to hook onto. Halls of Torment's take on dark fantasy is an unfavorable comparison, having noticeably more personality despite early translation issues (and frankly, being a less interesting game than DmD). The Hadesesqe deities that pop up and give quips fall flat, their writing and designs are more mundane than Supergiant's pantheon, while still being hammy enough to clash with the rest of the game's overly serious setting.

The game fares better, with the huge caveat that there is a content drought that other games in this budding (bloated?) genre don't have to put up with. The highlight of the game is the gear system, allowing for meta-progression in the way you'd see in a ARPG like Grim Dawn that can synergize with specific builds that you could try to draft into. Again, hardly an original idea even within the context of the genre, but one that with more abilities and bolder application of modifiers could be an addicting reason to repeat runs.

I feel bad posting this review, because there is more content coming down the pipeline and despite how negative I've been, if you've exhausted Vampire/Soulstone survivors and you're looking for another game to scratch that itch, there's enough going on in DmD to justify a $7 buy in. There's just a lot of this game that comes off as cynical or unoriginal and it left enough of a bad taste in my mouth to bring down my opinion of the game.

✔️ Played on Steam Deck, it works fine (15/01/2024).

So far it looks nice, it's entertaining and it has good replayability value. It needs a bit of polishing imo: the characters don't really have much uniqueness to them, most of the time you can play the same build with any of them and it will feel the same. There's also some builds that are clearly out performing the rest ([spoiler] Curse/Time/Justice mainly[spoiler]).

Also, I don't think it's a good idea to use emotes and abbreviated writing in the dialogue as a way of giving characters some sort of personality since not everyone that plays the game is familiar with the expressions/ internet slang and it looks like a pain for later localization/translation while trying to keep the essence of the character's personality.