Costumenaut Reviews

Difficult but funny. ----------------------------------------------------------

Cool indie game that plays like a top-down version of Risk of Rain. I'm really happy I came across this one, I'm baffled that it only got 4 other reviews at the time I'm writing mine, it's insane given how nice the game is and the fact it came out back in 2017! I would have appreciated the addition of achievements but other than that, I do consider we got a hidden indie gem here.

The game in a nutshell tries to be a "Risk of Rain" from the Top down perspective. Does it do that well? Mostly Yes. characters play diverse, peaks are meaningfull. The Time Vs Stronger Enemies Mechanic works fine and creates challenge. Each level you have To gather certain objects on the map, to start a teleporter and fight of enemies and eventually a boss. The gathering is a rather repetitive Task, but since you only have hints at the teleporter parts position (But at least DO have those) you can search and find them systematicaly. I wish there would be more and different obstracles on the map though. Enemies look & feelquite dynamic and are one of the games strong points, often using different movespeeds to spice things up. The Only thing I really miss so far are meaningfull movement / doge actions on your characters. Even dogeroll is only sightly quicker than your normal movement, wich is kind of slow. in ROR every character has got at least one power falling into this category, wich worked out great. Also and some shops where you can to select between items could also help you with bouilding you own chacracter Other then that this game is worth the price. It does a solid job well and offers different perspective on the concept used in ROR as well.