With over 10 hours played and the final boss in sight, I can definitely recommend this. It features a charming pixel art style and fun gameplay where no two runs feel the same, thanks to the steady unlock of new weapons and augments.

The Good:

Rewarding Progression: As is standard for the genre, dying helps you learn and grow. The more you play, the easier it gets to push through stages and defeat bosses.

Great Variety: There is a wide array of enemy designs and power-ups to keep the combat engaging.

Fair Difficulty & Checkpoints: The challenge is balanced (if a bit easy in the first two stages). Best of all, you don't have to start from stage 1 every time; you can skip ahead to stage 2 or 3 once you've beaten the previous ones.

Challenge Rooms: These are a great addition that break up the standard gameplay.

The Not-So-Good:

Visual Monotony: The environments lack variety. You are mostly running through dark gray spaceship rooms. While it fits the setting, it can get visually stale.

The Grind: You will need to grind out several runs to level up your stats in the "Bioboost upgrade system". If you aren't a fan of repetitive gameplay loops, this might test your patience.

Man i really wanted to like this game. If steam had a mixed rating i wouldve used it here.

The gunplay is good, the old school graphics combined with new lighting looks nice and the story is ok. I also find it awesome that you can even have a full on melee build. Sadly some things really bother me to the point where i stopped playing midway through the third and final stage.

Level Design: In this game you basically go from room to room fighting monsters. The problem is that some rooms are extremely small. Small to the point where you can pretty much jump from one side to the other with just one or two jumps.

RNG: Wether youre gonna have a good run or not will depend heavily on different rng factors. For example there are these flesh doors in some rooms, wich you can destroy. If you get lucky they contain a secret room wich can have REALLY good loot. But these rooms can only be opened via melee damage or from an exploding barrel close by. If you have to use melee then youll take damage when opening the door. So its either take damage or take damage but get really good loot.

Next are the augments. Some are quite nice like +20% damage. Some allow for really cool builds like +40% damage for your melee while you have full ammo. Some are straight up garbage. Like your heal now heals +3 hp, you get +7 max hp. Depending on wether you get good augments that compliment your build you can have a good or bad run.

Next there are challenge rooms. Basically small jumping maps wich give you rewards on completion. These rewards can be great too, like 34% more melee damage without taking up an augment slot. The problem here is consistency too. Some of these maps are really, really easy. Some are infuriatingly difficult. And again: If you get an easy one get an easy boost for your run, if you dont then you can either grind it or simply waive the reward.

Weapons also have a randomness to them in that a) you find random ones in rooms you have to unlock, b) each weapon has a lvl and c) each weapon has a rarity wich will affect its stats.

The upgrade system is ok. There are lots of them and they take a while to unlock. So if you like grinding, there you go. Sadly the upgrades are stuff like +2 hp or +1% melee damage, so really small stuff. Personally i would have liked some upgrades wich tone down the rng aspects of the game and wich are overall more meaningfull. Stuff like choose an augment at the start of your run, take less damage when opening the flesh doors

There are also some minor problems ive had. Like opening the pause menu (escape) caused the game to freeze for a few seconds before being able to interact with the menu and in some cases i was able to shoot between some enemies legs and the bullet just phased through them.

Also on a lighter note: Im sad that we cant save Jocaste

和朋友一起打更离谱，属于互相救命、互相卖队友、然后一起笑着把怪轰烂。单人也能爽，双人更上头。能把合作和肉鸽这两个点都做得这么顺，确实有东西。