An okay buy for the price, but lacks content. There are a lot of systems at play that initially seem really cool and like they might become something interesting until you realize that what you see when you unlock them is all that there is. You can build traps in your mausoleum - Cool! Until you realize that maybe two of them do anything useful. There are a bunch of minion archetypes - Neat! Except that almost every archetype is about combining your guys to get bigger guys, and there will only be one type of biggest guy that you'll be aiming for every run. Runs become repetitive very quickly as a result, because you always end up with 2-3 copies of the one biggest possible guy, one or two small guys to buff your big guys, and then a miscellaneous mash of trash minions that barely matter.
Meta progression is bizarrely paced and honestly just feels completely out of place in a lot of aspects. Classes all have a grid of 10-12 passives that can be unlocked with a unique meta-currency and I have no idea why this is even in the game. One class can dump meta currency into its passives to upgrade them and it feels like every class should have this as an option. In practice it takes 1-2 runs to earn enough meta currency to unlock all of a new class's skills, and you will never play a class before unlocking all of its skills. The other meta-progression currency, gold, is given to you at an insane rate that makes it nearly impossible to keep track of what you're actually unlocking. You're showered with enough gold per run to buy 10-20 upgrades across four different progression paths. Some early upgrades are game changers, but by the end of the game you're just buying tons of obvious filler upgrades after every run that add 10 more seconds of trash mobs to a wave of enemies that you won't even be looking at, or you'll be buying your fifth upgrade that raises the amount of one kind of minion you can summon.
The constant onslaught of boner humor is also just a pain. I'd be inclined to give the game more of a pass if it wasn't so in-your-face obnoxious. The game's cheap, so it has that going for it, but even at 4 bucks it's hard to recommend.
Meta progression is bizarrely paced and honestly just feels completely out of place in a lot of aspects. Classes all have a grid of 10-12 passives that can be unlocked with a unique meta-currency and I have no idea why this is even in the game. One class can dump meta currency into its passives to upgrade them and it feels like every class should have this as an option. In practice it takes 1-2 runs to earn enough meta currency to unlock all of a new class's skills, and you will never play a class before unlocking all of its skills. The other meta-progression currency, gold, is given to you at an insane rate that makes it nearly impossible to keep track of what you're actually unlocking. You're showered with enough gold per run to buy 10-20 upgrades across four different progression paths. Some early upgrades are game changers, but by the end of the game you're just buying tons of obvious filler upgrades after every run that add 10 more seconds of trash mobs to a wave of enemies that you won't even be looking at, or you'll be buying your fifth upgrade that raises the amount of one kind of minion you can summon.
The constant onslaught of boner humor is also just a pain. I'd be inclined to give the game more of a pass if it wasn't so in-your-face obnoxious. The game's cheap, so it has that going for it, but even at 4 bucks it's hard to recommend.
Reviewed on Mar 21, 2023