Boomeraxe Reviews

Love the concept and the presentation! The game is definitely not easy, or maybe I suck at it! Easy to pickup hard to master I guess.

Runs are monotonous and sometimes end abruptly because there are no I frames. There is not enough meta progression to make future runs more fun after the first 5. When you need a heal, you won't find it, but you can find 3 coins to add to your 10,000 with nothing to buy. The only hard enemy in the game is your own axe. My only pros are the sprites, and that I enjoyed the first 2 hours which is good value for the money.

A very difficult yet fun little action bh roguelike that is incredibly satisfying to succeed in. The core boomerang mechanic just works so well and allows for the gameplay to almost never get stale despite not having as much variation between runs as some other roguelikes.

20 min in and have died at least 15 times. Hard, but serotonin levels SHOOT up when you clear a crazy room without axe'ing yourself by accident. Love it, will continue for plenty twenties of minutes more! Edit after 3 hours: I have achieved my apotheosis and defeated the cassowary boss of the first floor... after 3 hours. Very fun.

it's like tennis but with consequences. The big bird boss seems tricky but honestly they're pretty manageable, the real problem is those little lizard guys like the one that spits on the guy in jurassic park. Absolute menace, and possibly illegal.

This game has been great so far, but it is hard. I think the difficulty is probably my favorite thing about it though, check it out if you like a challenge! I really like the main mechanic of bouncing your axe back to fight, it's a fresh idea. At least, I haven't seen any games quite like this. Getting used to a new way to fight is fun, and after a while you won't be hitting yourself all that much ha. I've seen a little of what they mean by item synergies now, still trying to find more but the ones I've found are cool and can make a huge difference in the run. I beat the first 2 bosses, haven't gotten past what I'm guessing is a midboss next level yet (only saw it once so far). Right now I see 0% have the achievement for beating the last boss, I want to keep going and see if I can bring that up a little but gotta take a break for tonight I think. Anyway if you're on the fence about it, I'd say give it a shot! Really good deal right now too

Fun game! Pros: Easy to get started, fun gameplay, good music and art. Cons: I keep dying.

UPDATE: I got my cigarettes and now it's 2:30 AM and all I'm trying to do is avoid getting hit by my own damn axe. :D I did manage to make it past the first boss and I saw a new enemy that literally blocks my axe and yeets it back at me. That's pretty cool. Needless to say, I really like this game. My play time is pretty short (0.1 hours at the time of this review), but I managed to die about 10 times. I need to run out and buy more cigarettes before I continue playing this game. The game itself? It's really cool, actually. You are a little Viking looking dude who punches an axe into enemies that are spraying bullets at you. The cool thing is, the axe is a boomerang, so it comes back after hitting the enemy. If you don't punch it, it hits you. You start with three hearts and I have yet to find a heart pickup, but that's probably due to my short playtime. I made it to the first boss once but did not manage to kill it. Power ups are unlockable via meta progression that does not seem grindy at all. There are power ups that you find randomly even before that, though. For $2 bucks? Hell yeah.

This game is awesome. It is sober, innovative, skill-based fairly. The meta-progression is limited and is done quickly. The most frustrating thing is that meta-currency keeps being present even when it becomes irrelevant and maxed out - taking place of other resources, and appearing as a meaningful resource when it isn't anymore. I would recommend to the developer to balance that out. But if that's the most frustrating aspect of a skill-grind game, then you know the game is good. The music is also pretty great. It makes you satisfied to progress just from hearing the next pieces. All in all, would highly recommend.

"IT AXES AND COMES BACKSES!" What an ABSOLUTE STEAL at $2. The core mechanic with the axe is easy to learn and hard to master! Coupled that with the fact that it's such a simple and elegant mechanic, it works really well with all the different powerups that you get to accumulate (and unlock!) during your runs. The game is stylish, the fx and the feedback are very well polished, and the music and sound design is excellent! 10/10 ez recommend