Ive been playing since 2021, not consistently but i find myself coming back to this game alot especially lately. Its a very high quality experience and the gameplay loop is fun. You have autoaim and autofire standard across all characters, the only controls are run and jump, so gameplay involves alot of dodging projectiles and choosing the correct perks to help you survive or kill everything in the room, along with that, a demon lady can spawn at rest rooms where you can give half your life for a good perk. Starts off very simple, but you progress by upgrading your gears rarity and level, ie Three Common makes an Uncommon, three Uncommons make a Rare, three Rare makes an Epic, three Epics make a Legendary. In the time ive been playing i have most of the free gears at legendary, and i almost have three legendary gears, im really hoping theres a tier above legendary cus i put alot of elbow grease into this lol. You also unlock different characters and pets by doing weekly challenges, getting Hero Shards, Castle keys and Pet summon keys. Unfortunately, you usually only get one Hero shard or Pet summon key per weekly event, and you need atleast 10 to unlock a character. I really hope they start giving 2-3 shards per event, cus up until a month ago i only had 2 heroes, one of them being the starter hero, and 1 pet. they added alot of stuff in the time ive been playing, theyre up to world 51, im still at world 14 😭 i play the events more often than the main worlds for gear, pet shards, and hero shards, but its alot of grinding, can be very slow, even with all the fun random events, theres a level of gatcha rng with the A and S class character summons and pet summons. Plus competitions of varying difficulties with other players that have much better equipment than you would as a casual player. If you want better stuff, you’re gonna have to spend some money in this game cus casual play only gets you so far. I bought ad-less because i really do like the game but it was 40 DOLLARS. Honestly the ads in this game are pretty reasonable, you can avoid it if you want but watching them always rewards you, but Ad-less significantly enhances the experience, you get all the rewards of watching an ad by just pressing a button (free dopamine essentially lol) but you also get a 50 free daily gems card, along with daily/weekly/monthly offers. Honestly alittle low for a 40 dollar purchase, but i ACTUALLY HAVE GEMS NOW for stuff like revives and gear/hero offers. Along with that, in the past three weeks ive had it, ive unlocked several more characters and pets. i have unlocked more than i have in 4 years, about 1 year of consistent gameplay, in three weeks. Honestly i dont think thats the best thing, but if its going to enhance the gameplay experience so much, it really should be more accessible. Maybe different ad-less tiers? like a 20 dollar variant that only gives you ad-less but no daily gems?
Changing the subject, i used to played this game on my iPhone 14 pro max, the touch controls served me very well, especially since there really is only one jump button and a joystick. Since then, ive upgraded to a 17 and i got my hands on a Backbone Pro! thankfully the game still registers it as a functional controller, but it only uses the buttons and left joystick. Makes sense considering the simple control
scheme, i think this game could really benefit from adding more Backbone support however. the guns all have autofire and autoaim, so theres no need for a traditional Fire button or aiming (though that would be cool), i find myself dying sometimes because the autoaim chooses to target the wrong enemy, so they should add switching targets with the right joystick. maybe having two different guns equipped, and using L and R to switch guns during a playthrough??!
final thoughts
This game is clearly very high quality, few straight years of content and updates, the developers clearly care about their game and their players. very underrated and imo, one of those essential app games. The casual experience is very serviceable and if you like platformers, run and guns, rougelikes and bullet hell, I couldnt recommend this game enough. I hope the developers see this review and consider backbone support, my gameplay experience would be enhanced even further!
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