nice idea but I find the gameplay very stale and boring, only having attack, parry and bag slap is boring with no rogue-like upgrade progression.

fun but abandoned by dev

It's not bad. I just find it to be a little too simple and tedious at the same time. The mechanics themselves are slow and easy, but demand your vigilance and focus at all times. Each stage is a big step up in damage/health from the enemies, and there's good enemy variety. Though I will admit the skulls are beyond annoying. It's basically "Have enough ranged consumables." or "Wait a random amount of time for them to stop shooting and actually attack you." The weapon smithing system is top notch, I really liked it.

Permalearning perks you find is a cool system, a good way to simplify rpg progression so that it wasn't so tedious when you died.

But, I feel like where it falls short the most, is in its random generation. It didn't take me long before I was *so* sick of going through this extremely simple and 1 dimensional map devoid of any wonder or sense of exploration. My biggest obstacle in every run is running back and forth through the toony tunnels to wherever my map wasn't filled to try and find more rooms I missed, or get back to the shop/chute in any area.

I think it would be much better if every floor just went on forever, and had multiple exits, then you could do silly stuff like farm the first area until you're a god. Or you could belay going to the next jump in difficulty until you're ready. This would make it possible to complete a run first try. It would also drastically cut the tedium of careening down the halls you already emptied to "get to the thing".

If I could go back, I wouldn't buy this game unless it was on sale for < 5 dollars, there is just too much tedium involved for it to have Slasher in the name.