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Incredibly fun. I have played this game on and off (the free version) for a few years. Hadnt played it in a very long time and snagged it on the steam sale.

Extremely fun with tons more things than I remember. Its the easier version of something like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup or Rift Wizard 2. Much more user friendly and easy to get into. The "chill" version of a traditional roguelike but still hard as nails.

Wish there was modding/workshop for it but i understand why there isnt.

Soundtrack is a banger, graphics rock (its not tiles! lol), and the gameplay is addicting.

There is only one major bone of contention I have with the game and its the food. I hate the hunger aspect. Its one of those things that forces you to speed up how you play instead of allowing you to really take your time to learn and explore.

If they had toggles for that or allowed modding/had workshop this wouldnt be an issue.

Still worth your time and worth the 5.50 it is on sale for sure.

Give it a shot you might be pleasantly surprised!

9/10

Incredibly amazing addition and one of the single best creations from FROMs secondary team.

This adds everything we wanted, 2 new incredible classes, and the new Map is amazing to run.

A lot of the whining here is from "wahhhh i want it to be easy and I dont want to learn anything waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah".

Games great. Give the DLC a shot and if you like the speed/power of the first, expect it to be turned up to 10 here.

The new classes alone are worth your time and the 15USD price tag is nothing.

This DLC got me back into Nightreign in a way no other updates/everdarks could.

11/10 would buy again.

PROS:

• MasterTingus' weird as hell animations
  
• Idle Clicker that doesnt eat up your life. (Auto Offgame Grinding.)
  
• Amazing art style
  
• Theme is so wtf its like eating datura and hitting NOS at the same time. Wild time.
  
• Goose
  
• Great Soundtrack
  
• Genuinely surreal.

CONS:

• Some noticable bugs. Clicking and dragging multiple items for example causes all sorts of issues, and overlaid items can get stuck to where you can move either one. Otherwise worked perfect in my testing.
  
• There are also some useful exploits. Especially with the portal. I wont share them here for obvious reasons but this is also something I doubt most people would notice on their run. Im just cursed with finding these things.
  
• The "Early Match" system is kinda weak. The game incentivises you to go to do something else for 6 hours and return instead of early match. Its not really a Prestige like other games, its just getting some of the meta currency quickly. If you beat the level you get a lot more and save a lot of time.
  
• Gameplay is clearly used to slow the game down and pad time to prevent refund%. Otherwise this could be easily beaten in about 2 hours or so if you play these kinds of games regularly. Annoying, but not the end of the world.

OVERALL

Incredibly fun game made with a true madman on the art. Its incredibly fun and more of one of those "experience" games than anything. The gameplay/puzzles are engaging even if there are some weird bugs and useful exploits. I assume for most people it wont be an issue.

This game is truly weird and I love that. Its just WTF from the start and doesnt quit. The intermissions with the goose cartoons are weird, hilarious, and traumatic to say the least.

You should play this. Its incredibly fun and worth the 6~ bucks. It is an incremental clicker first and foremost. If you like those games, youll njoy this weird package.

Alright, back to it.

This is about modding, feel free to skip below if uninterested and/or you only want the review. Thank you!

• Dev (or someone on their team) decided to not use Steam Workshop to host mods and instead wants people to go to their discord to get them. Its a nightmare to navigate and not shown anywhere. Without searching the RW2 root folder I would have never found the ~mods folder and the example mods inside, leading me to finding the mod community.
  
• Mods are available online. You can get (almost) every mod thats on the discord from github or other repos that people have made on reddit/twitter. You DO NOT have to use Discord for all of them.
  
• If this post gets enough attention, I will make a Steam Discussions post that has all the mod links, virustotal reports, links to original file locations, and a guide on how to mod.
  
• I have 150~ hours in this game on another family account and even more in RW1. I had no idea this existed. So I figured this should be shared.
  
• Mods I recommend for everyone are Quick Restart and Fast Death. Quick Restart allows you to instantly reroll the game if you press R in the menu, and Fast Death speeds up the death animation and lets you hold Space to quickly restart the game.
  
• Toggling Steam Workshop only has positives. Not only does it offload the questions to the Steam Discussions but it also brings people into the mod community and game. But its not my game so... Figured if you're savvy this would be enough info to get you started. As i said, if this gets popular ill make a guide.

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PROS:

• Amazing gameplay loop that you can play for 20 minutes or 10 hours straight. (I have a lot more time than shown here with the game.)
  
• Extremely powerful combinations of magic that can one shot the entire field.
  
• You are encouraged to try and break the game as much as possible and with the insane skilltree/magic system in this game you can
  
• Hard as all hell. Seriously this game is HARD. There is next to no information online to help you learn, but the Steam Discussions and Community Guides do have some good ones.
  
• Graphics and Music. I love the style and the music gets stuck in my head for hours with this one.
  
• This and Path of Acra are the 2 most goated games in the genre imo. Both bring a hell of a lot to the table and if you havent play RW2 or POA you absolutely should play both. They both bring different things to the table and are a hell of a good time.
  
• I didnt deduct a point because the game itself is still incredible. This is just a silly decision from the devs. I mean hell, at least make a webpage or something to host these on instead of discord. Literally anything is better than discord but as i stated, not my game.

CONS:

• Hard as hell. I love difficulty, but this is HARD. I am pretty good at picking most of these games up and figuring them out relatively quickly. Its taken me well over 40 hours to really get the hang of the systems in this game. I love it though.
  
• I would put more but that is really it. It succeeds in everything it tries to do and a lot more. Im not kidding. Its just amazing once you get into it.

OVERALL

Highly recommend this game. The dev has put tons of work into it and its very clear its a passion project as well as sequel. If you like these kinds of games, this is one of the very best to do it. I really do adore this title and cant wait to play more now that I have it on my own account! Definitely worth the full price tag and worth it even more so on sale.

Pick it up, give it a while, learn the game, and youll have a blast.

- Synergies
- Tons of content
- Hours of things to do
- Varied Builds
- Tons to collect
- Incredibly fun and addicting gameplay loop

- 3 Gameplay styles really
- Level variation is there, but curses need to be done 1 after another. You cant jump to the final curse and try your luck unfortunately.
- Slow progression with the Blacksmith due to lots of currency types.
- All gems but the yellow gems are easy to get since they only drop around 4~ at a time in the middle of a match. Only nitpick I really have.


I have played this game off and on for a few years and watched it grow. Its one of the best bangs for your buck as far as VS style games go. Tons of different builds and lots of weapons/magic/spells to keep you entertained. Highly recommend this game for the hours you can put in alone, plus the dev team is constantly cooking something.

This game gets updated constantly with new stuff added. They just added a ton of new characters, bosses, weapons, etc right before I left this review.

If you're on the fence, definitely pick this game up. If you can get it on a sale even better but I fully stand by this game being worth its full price. Its a slow burn, but one that burns for a long while and manages to stay fresh run after run if you use the tools the game gives you. Very worth your money.

Very fun game. Can easily be beaten in under 2 hours.

The prestige is hysterical. You need like 40~ total plates/stars to unlock everything.

By the end of Day 2 I had 3986 Stars. Little wonky.

If you want to speedrun, just max the cat ASAP and max out any/all supports. You can rip through it like I did. Not going to refund cause thats a ♥♥♥♥ move.

Overall though. Very fun, short, sweet, easy, braindead, number go brrrrr.

Not much to say other than you should snag it and play it. Fun way to kill a few hours.

Didn't like the game when it first dropped. Seemed gimmicky and just "Pokermanz with Blickies".

Repurchased the game because Fv<k nintendo, and man...

They have done an insane job with this. There is so much to do now and so many Pals to catch. Legitimately this game is incredible and addicting as hell.

The progression system is fixed, the weird jank issues are mostly nailed down, the server/co-op works flawlessly now, and the overall world design and optimization are far above where they were on launch.

These guys made a more fun pokemon with better cutscenes and more care than a multi-billion dollar company.

Passion Project > Nostalgia Bait Slop

9.5/10. Legit im having so much fun with this. All my hours as of right now were played straight through. plan on doing it again today.

Thank you guys for all the hard work, looking forward to 1.0 for sure!

Its MTX Hell. Make a secondary account, unlock everything, and play there if you dont care about the co-op BS.

They have a specific battle version for head 2 head battles but no 2v2 so it loses out hard to something like Minion Masters in the "free and fun" aspect.

If they end up adding 2v2 it might be worth, but this is the same flash game you played in 2004 or whatever but with everything as an MTX. Yes you can play for free, but its an impossible grind.

Either way, fun to waste 10 mins on, uninstall, and play again in 4 years for 10 mins. Congrats on the money printer you guys got.

I have many more hours than listed here. I have completed the game and started "NG+". Amazingly fun game and definitely this years Vampire Survivors/Balatro for sure. I would put this FAR, FAR above MEGABONK. If you are on the fence with this game, take the dive. Its well worth it especially while its on sale right now. (Halloween Sale 2025)


- Extremely polished, only 1 issue when I broke the game completely with damage. Saw 1 crash and that is the only bug I have noticed. (I was spawning about 20K baby balls and it eventually crashed with the Juggler + Spread shot guy.)

- Many layers to the action. There are tons and tons of synergies that can vastly change your outcome. Once you get a "certain" upgrade for your pit you can then combine these into even more insane options.

- The game understands you want to break it, and slowly lets you. Once you "beat the game" you can REALLY do some HEINOUS combos. It becomes a "okay how am i going to destroy this run" up until NG+ then you get HUMBLED.

- Content for days, unlockables everywhere, and lots of replay value.

- Replay Value through the absolute roof. I have found myself switching from Slay the Spire to this as my daily "Just gonna drop a run rq" game. And StS/TBoI have been that for many years. This game just rocks.


- Only 1 real con to me. That being that there are a lot of balls/relics but after about 15~ hours you have seen most of the standards. There are a lot of synergies but I wish there were quite a few more "secret balls". I found the 3x one and 3 others, but it feels like there is a ton of room to expand here.

- Same with characters. The characters that change the game into something else are incredible and would love to see this expanded upon. For example, the one that turns the game into a Turn based game. That was an insane mechanic and added a lot of depth to that kind of playstyle. Would love to see more of it.

- Would love to see more stuff done with the buildings. Once they get to the max level and you have everything, its kind of just "slam all these upgrades into the infinites". But after a certain point its kinda a moot point to do. Like the Golden Eggs in Vampire Survivors. Past a certain point you dont need to do that, just play. Would love to see something else with those buildings. Perhaps a house that fuses 2 characters together for 1 run and if you use them you get bonuses? Idk something along those lines. Or something that uses the extreme excess of materials you get and allows you to gamble those on runs. No real clue.

- Its pretty telling when the cons are just "Please make more and expand here because I want more" and not the typical "Runs like trash plz delete". The devs truly showed what a passion project is and i hope more devs take the reigns from here.

- tl;dr: It just doesnt feel "completed" yet as far as branching pathways and synergies. I will even admit im looking at this through StS/TBoI lense and understand those took years to get there. Im just hoping they keep expanding this game and adding onto it because it has a LOT of gas left in the tank. MEGABONK is very fun for like... idk 2 hours? Then you realize its as wide as the ocean and as deep as a single drop of water. Requires forcing meta builds for some higher end stuff. BxP does not do this. You can win if you are good enough and every run the synergy/fusions feel a lot more unique and purposeful.


The devs hit a homerun here. Took an older game style (breakout) and turned it into something truly unique and special. I will be playing this game quite a bit going forward.

It is very clear they took their time to craft something special. Its easy to pick up, extremely hard to put down. Do yourself a favor and pick this up. We need to support more of this and less of the AAA nonsense we are seeing like the BO stuff or COD stuff. Its time these devs make all the money those companies are trying to.

Amazing game guys.

EXCITING EDIT: They have released a blog post on the game stating they are not finished with the game yet and will be adding more. This is amazingly exciting news!!!!! Once I see what they are cooking in the oven, ill swap this to a 10/10. Cause... man it surely feels like it.

Thank you for reading!

Very fun but also a hellacious version of "I CANT SEE SH!T CAPTAIN".

Fun, very easy RPS style gameplay, and allows you to become a god if you just push towards the end and store gold. Max every top out and buy every relic. I had 68 Gold by the last shop and all 4 of my tops had 7 life and i had every relic I have seen up to that point.

Very easy, fun, kinda brainless, but the art style is.... atrocious. Just gonna put it out there. Its like Buckshot roulette if you can only see in greyscale at 120i. Makes it very hard to tell where the white tops are and makes the game feel like a rushed unity job which im sure it isnt.

6/10. Will buy it if its cheap since its a fun no-thinking kinda game. Good luck to the devs!