Cthulhu's Reach: Devil Reef Steam Charts & Stats

I wish I could get a refund for this game. When I bought it, I had a lot of fun with it. It was tough, but it was a balanced experience that was fun and chill to explore. Every update they have made since its launch has made this game worse and worse. The writing was on the wall as soon as they implemented Stamina aka the lousy game's crutch mechanic. I stepped away for a while and just came back to it to see a bunch of updates. Oh boy, lets see how bad they trashed this game now. Lo and behold, I can no longer unlock shotguns or the tommy gun. I'm stuck with the shitty pistol, and all the unlocks for it do a minimal and I mean MINIMAL amount of improvements. There's only so much you can improve the pistol before you reach the first boss, the Watcher, so buckle up for that. The Watcher battle is INCREDIBLY annoying; his life bar is massive, fine. He's a boss. BUT he spawns the worm enemies who are immune to guns, so guess what? You're going to have to hack away at them with the axe which is going to drain your stamina. Oh there's that crutch mechanic again... Once your stamina is 0, you can't do anything, can't shoot these things, can't roll out of the bullet hell projectiles the Watcher spews, you're doomed. Well, I managed to break the Watcher's health down to the last quadrant, but then he goes ape shit with the bullet hell spam. You have NO recourse when this happens; he still spawns worms that you have to kill with the axe, but now you HAVE to roll out of the way from the projectiles too. You simply cannot get close enough to the watcher to shoot him and the second a moment of opportunity arises, the worms spawn and you have to axe them again lest they GRAB you and keep you in place for the unrelenting bullet hell. Again, this things health bar was massive, and all the money I could scrounge only let me upgrade the shitty pistol so much, once I finally got him down to his last boss cycle, I had already spent nearly 20 minutes on the ONE fight. I have zero desire to attempt again, there isn't anything else I can do, you won't be able to get past the crippling stamina mechanic in that fight. If he spawned slimes then maybe it would be more managable since you could at least use the guns on them (and they only slow you instead of freezing you entirely) but honestly I'm not sticking around for another shitty update. I REALLY wish I could get my money back. Imagine buying Super Mario 3 on the NES and every time you play it, it changes into a worse and worse experience. Would it still be revered as a masterpiece? I just wanted to chill in this game a bit before work and now I'm angry at the state of modern game development where my hard earned money is taken from me on a literal bait and switch and I have no recourse. Maybe the current iteration of this game speaks to you, fine. Just don't hold out hope that it's going to remain that way on the next update.