Phantom Abyss Reviews

[h1] ABYSS MODE IS BROKEN [/h1] You can and will encounter Abyss Temples that are literally impossible, which is frustrating after spending 20 minutes going through having a really great run to hit a door that doesn't have an open trigger. I think the upgrade system could have used a bit of a rework but I mostly just bypassed the work by [spoiler] purchasing harder challenges and key transferring as soon as I could. Then just cranked up the difficulty to only get Epic keys and transferred down, completely nullifying the need for uncommon and lower keys since you can turn 1 Epic into 2 Rare, into 4 Uncommon into 8 Common, trivialising the need for keys [/spoiler] The Adventure mode side is mostly fine, there are some temples which have forced modifiers that are really annoying (take a Key/Light and instantly die if you take damage, generates floors with almost all dark rooms filled with hard to see traps) but I enjoyed most of it so far If you don't want the difficulty though you can choose (mostly) what modifiers you want to put up with which I thought was a really nice design choice I'm sure if I keep throwing myself at Abyss mode I'll eventually reach a temple I can actually clear but so far out of 5 Abyss temples they've all been impossible to complete

I love this game so much but it is broken and I don't know if it will ever get fixed. I have run into 5 unbeatable dungeons because of the blocked door glitch in the last 2 hours of playing. This problem is serious and makes the game nearly unplayable. People have known about this bug since the release of 1.0. As someone who has played the alpha and was excited for the full release I have recommended this game to people in the past and now this glitch has made me regret this. I would be overjoyed to edit this review to a yes but I cannot recommend a game that you cant beat because of a know glitch that makes the game unplayable. Please devs at least let us know you are working on fixing the problem.

PLEASE NOTE - THIS GAME IS ABANDONED. Regardless of that, though, I hope my playtime speaks for itself. Sure, the obstacles and such can get pretty repetitive at times. Sure, there are times where a run HAS to be abandoned because something spawned wrong and created a locked room that couldn't be passed. Sure, all you can really do once getting every upgrade and every whip is just.. keep playing Abyss mode. BUT, to me, this game is legitimately fun. This is probably one of the only games I've ever played that keeps me on the edge of my seat and excited for the challenge. It's more of a single-player experience than anything nowadays, but still give it a try.