The most revolutionary and astounding integration of gameplay and story that I have ever seen. This game is still years ahead of its time. Hades is in the paddling pool by comparison. The worldbuilding is incredible, every single character is great, and the game will force you to choose which one you're willing to wrench away from yourself, with a thousand different considerations for who, when, and why, and every single time, it will have a massive impact on how you engage with the gameplay.

Some people are turned away by the sportsball gameplay, but it's absolutely core to the way the game works. If it were pure story, it wouldn't work. And for what the gameplay is, I think it's pretty damn good. The only real, serious flaw is that the AI is highly exploitable. They can and will walk into hazards over and over, and you can trick them into doing it for easy wins, which can trivialize the consequences that wins and losses are meant to have.

But that's a drop in the bucket. The game is a goddamn masterpiece. Which is why it sold the absolute worst of any of Supergiant's games, is available on the least platforms of any of their games, is the only one of their games not to have a physical release, and has been completely eclipsed by Hades, a game that doesn't have 1/10th the bravery as Pyre.