Noita Reviews

This game is like a box of chocolate. You never know whats gonna kill you next. Are you having a rough run and died in 24s flat burning alive? Are you having a god run and everything is going like a waxed slide, and then BOOM! you shoot just too close... This game is a blast! you'll hate it love it hate it some more and you'll keep coming back for more!

If you are ok with suddenly losing all progress every few hours, this game is for you :3c

Casually rips me to shreds in 5 different directions and still keeps me coming back.

[h3] Summary[/h3] Noita didn't grab me when I purchased it years ago. I was caught in a cycle of giving it a try, dismissing the experience, and doing the same thing again 6 months later. This time though, something hooked me. I haven't been this enthusiastically enthralled and impressed with a rogue-lite since Enter the Gungeon. So It's not without circumspection when I say Noita has [i]truly[/i] raised the bar and it deserves a crown of its own. It might be the most unassuming, content-rich, surprising, rewarding, and replayable single-player game I've [i]ever[/i] experienced; and it's tragically underrepresented in must-play recommendation lists. [h3]Tragically Overlooked[/h3] While I can't stomach that so many people will overlook this game, I can't blame them either.. Because Noita would be no less amazing if it explicitly gave new players just a [i]teeny[/i] bit more information up front. A 5 minute youtube guide or a quick read through the wand-building wiki will give you everything you need to get hooked without a single spoiler. However without them, you'll put the game down (like I did at first) or worse, write it off completely. [h3]How To Get Hooked[/h3] Once you have a few [i]very[/i] basic tools in your toolbelt the game gets addicting, and the sky is the limit. So, I recommend you go in 'blind' with the exception of a quick 10 minute spoiler-free youtube beginner guide, or watch a 'coached run' for tips and tricks. If a few runs later you aren't hooked, then no harm no foul - it's just not for you. If you manage get hooked and are able to beat the first boss, look up ideas for what to do next, and prepare to have your mind blown by how much content and variety await you. Spoiling 'secret areas' in the game at this point won't make the journey to get through them any less fun, challenging, or rewarding. Having beat the main boss, I'm excited to learn that there are hundreds of hours of content ahead of me in the form of secrets, biomes, wand mechanics, synergies, puzzles, potions, enemies, and bosses. These have taken years of intense community collaboration to discover/compile information about them, and no one player could discover the vast amount of possibilities that lie ahead of them without the wiki. So don't be afraid to use the wiki & reveal to yourself the minimum amount needed to set new goals, and chase them.

a great game with near INFINITE replayability! unfortunately it features no points shop, even though the games style would make for great backgrounds!

This one has been a slow burn for me, but I keep coming back to it to throw more attempts into the void. And every time, I think the addictive pull gets a little stronger. This game is brutal and relentless. It will infuriate you when it's not grinding your pathetic ego into the dirt. But sometimes, every now and then, the stars kind of halfway align and you get this subtle hint of godlike power, and you manage to push a little further than ever, before dying in some horrific fashion. And you jump back in with your newfound insight - only to get yourself absolutely curb-stomped within 5 minutes by something you definitely should have seen coming. I understand this game is extremely deep, and I very well may never see a completed run - we'll see. I intend to keep throwing attempts at it, because the gameplay itself is very good. The physics/simulation aspect with the game engine is neat to mess around with, even if it makes everything so dangerous all the time! This is a rare game that does ball crushing brutal difficulty in a way that does not feel cheap, or lazily done. It doesn't even feel bad when completely random things like monsters having an acid fight with each other sets off an explosion chain that ultimately sends run-ending strays your way (4 screens over, and 2 floors below). You barely have time to feel bad about that turbo nuclear blowtorch grenade launcher wand you just lost before you're hitting into the next game to make a better one, I'm finding. This is an incredibly well done game that I can see myself revisiting continually for quite awhile, here - if not just to see if I can ever complete one of these runs one day!

I hate this game so much, I'm going to probably put at least a few hundred more hours into it, it's that... good? bad? It's just that. If you hate yourself like I do, I cannot recommend this enough. Prepare to die a lot, and to somehow get worse at the game than you are on your first run.

this game provides a fantastic gameified experience of building a pc while blindfolded, with one hand only, with said hand shaking horribly all the time. sometimes it works, sometimes the PSU explodes!

Great game. Very difficult. You can jump in for 15 minutes, die horribly, then quit. Fortunately you can also cheat with steam mods and devastate the universe, which is great if you're an exhausted parent with no time.

The toughest game I've ever played. I was mesmerized by watching McQueeb, Dunk, Alias, Fury, and more play so effortlessly, I finally had to give it a shot. ... ... ... I'm a Playstation guy and this is my first pc game. I love it.