I played this for like 3 months straight every day last summer and in September I just sort of stopped for some reason. The game is fun for a while but I think there's just too little things to do and progress towards after you finish the 'campaign'.

I think you have to have a lot of patience and creativity to make steady progress through the post-game where your efforts are focused on terraforming, decorating, and redesigning your island and I didn't really have the motivation to stick it through. Maybe I'll jump back in sometime in the future.

Exo One grows on you as its level design develops — the relatively simplistic early levels growing more complex as mechanics are added (or subtracted) and new twists are added to its stunning set of environments. And driving the player through those strange and sometimes wondrous planets is a gorgeous soundtrack filled with moody, contemplative tracks that, for me, are the game's lasting highlight. All-in-all, it's a wondrous, moody, atmospheric game that captures the scale of outer space in a way few games have.

Or, in short, it's like Denis Villeneuve decided to remake Journey and Interstellar at the same time, as a game about falling with style.

I hated this so much it made me re-evaluate my scoring system.

There's no point to Vampire Survivors at all. At least other games I hate like Castlevania Adventure or Metroid 1 have obstacles to overcome, goals to reach and mechanics to master. Vampire Survivors technically has those, but the game essentially plays itself most of the time. All you really do is walk around to level up which lets you kill things a little faster than you did before. Even walking sims, at the VERY least, will usually attempt to convey an emotion or tell a story through some sort of abstract way. I felt absolutely nothing playing Vampire Survivors.

I'm not gonna say it killed my family and pissed on my bed since it's dirt cheap and even free on mobile, but the fact that I'm relieved I didn't even spend $5 for it on PC says a lot. In fact, instead of buying Vampire Survivors, here's just a few games that cost $5 (not on sale) or less that you should buy instead!

DOOM (or DOOM II, or DOOM 64)
Hylics
Plants Vs. Zombies
Super Hexagon
Geometry Dash
Downwell
VVVVVV
and many many more!

I feel like a fucking crazy person seeing the amount of people who fell in love with this. If you want a roguelike, play Gungeon. If you want bullet hell, also play Gungeon. Just play Gungeon.