Lost In Dungeon Reviews

No penalty for dying. Sometimes stuck in wall when loading into floor.

I love what this game is trying to do and it seems like a ton of fun, but sadly I marked this game as "un-review-able" in my Zaxtors Indie Look livestream you can see HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBNUtjRBbuE&feature=youtu.be Basically, the controls at launch are too frustrating in my opinion and they need to be changed. Watch my video play of this game to see why and how I suggested that the developer fix it. We'll see if this developer care to listen to constructive criticism and make changes which I feel are NEEDED. I honestly think that this will be a very fun little game if only he makes some super simple changes to the controls for both keyboard and mouse I will change this view to a "recommend" and actually score it if he makes changes to the controls, otherwise as it is .. I CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS GAME WITH SUCH AWKWARD GAUDY CONTROLS AT LAUNCH.

It breaks my heart to see this kind of projects. Projects that, with a little more work, could be awesome games. This is another example of why Steam needs a "neutral" recommendation option. What we have here is an endless amount of randomly generated rooms to clear out of enemies, which are constantly becoming harder to defeat. Every few rooms, a new enemy type is added to the pool. Sometimes, after cleaning a room, a black vortex will appear that teleports you to an upgrade and shop room. And that's it, pretty much. ¿A simple premise? Yes, it is. But if I've learned something about simple games is that, if you design and execute your idea well enough, it will work. Unfortunatelly, there are some flaws in this game that keeps it away from being perfect. - Collision detection, sometimes, doesn't work as it should. There are gaps between walls that you clearly should be able to go through, yet you can't. Sometimes, enemies will collapse trying to move through a wall and will teleport to the other side. When you learn how this things work, you can adapt to it, but this doesn't mean is well executed. - Controlls could be improved. Aside for the controller action buttons not working on the shop (at least for me), sometimes you try to attack in the direction you're clearly aiming, but the character doesn't shoot until you move a little in said direction. Same happens with bombs. - No option menu. There is no option to change controlls, graphics, sound, anything. Although I admit I didn't need it, it would be nice to see. Most people don't adapt as easily as I do and want to change options to their hearts content. - Upgrades are kinda grindy to get because of low gold drop. I mean, gold drops constantly, but the amounts you get are VERY low. I had to clean like 15~20 rooms before I could get a 10k upgrade, the cheapest one, and there was a 18k upgrade next to it which I simply ignored. I had some fun playing this game, but I found myself constantly adapting and forgiving some design choices that have an easy fix. If this flaws are fixed, I won't only update this review and change it to a thumbs up, but I will buy the game again, because I think it has the potential to be very entertaining.