Beacon Reviews

Bit of a mixed bag with this one. It's slightly unpolished in every possible way, but it still does most things well enough to be fun and addictive. You can tell they were going for some interesting sci-fi design, but most of the times the game doesn´t really look to good, especially if you get a run where you are just submerged in mustard gas the whole time. The game runs smoothly most of the time but it has small visual bugs pretty often, the UI ones were specially annoying as it would just stay that way for the whole run. It has a ton of power ups, and build possibilities, but a lot of the passives and secondary items seem to be fluff. Most of it comes down to having some decent stats to go with whatever type of weapon you plan on running, which is not too bad because there's still a lot of weapons to try. And these are what the game does best, you got some really fun options as well as a bunch you will try once and never pick up again. The Mutation thing is a fun idea to wrap the whole premise of the rouglite in, but most of the time it’s a bit convoluted and random, some mutations really change how a run goes and others not so much. So yeah, it's a bit of a mess but I still enjoyed my time with it over all, so I´m still recommending it.

Although I didn't have the time to play it a lot, the game is fine and I generally liked it. The review is a thumbs up for the developer's decision to preserve their creation in Web Archive before shutting down the company.