Challenging Fun! – WazHack Review

Very difficult roguelike with adorable graphics that remind me of claymation movies e.g. Clash of the Titans. I enjoy roguelikes, have played many of them, and this one is hard even by roguelike standards. For me what makes it so hard is the scarcity of identification opportunities and the high percentage of cursed items. In combination those two conditions make this probably the toughest roguelike I've played so far (been playing them since 1987). And I love it! At first it reminded me of a reskin of an old, abandoned game called Dungeon of Doom, but the more I played the more I realized this game has much more depth. The available loot is pretty standard for the genre, but the author has added many creative, unusual ways to use the abundant loot, opening up myriad possibilities to solve problems in new ways, some hilarious and unique to this game. The pets are great fun! Vendors and interesting dungeon features add variety. There is a TON of content here and it is clearly a labor of love. I own this on Steam, too and enjoy switching between the newer beta (1.3) there and 1.2 on my iPad. So far have paid for barbarians and fighters on iOS but I may end up buying all classes. I wish there was a small discount to buy all characters at once, but to anyone complaining about the IAP here, I disagree and feel the price is more than fair. This is so replayable and deep it's easily worth the price to own all the classes, and IMO generous to let folks who only like certain classes to pay less. Kudos to the author on a job well done! To others considering purchase: if you don't know what a roguelike is, read about them first. If you don't like games that are challenging, look elsewhere, but if you like the roguelike genre this is an absolute must-buy.
Review by Chithulhu on WazHack.