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StarVaders (PC) Status: Playing I started playing this game on Monday 12 May, 2025
Current opinion of this game
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June 16, 2025 05:11:40 PM
I've been enjoying this one so far (slightly over 17 hours of gameplay). At this point I think I've unlocked all the characters, I've also gotten to the "true ending" but I have yet to "beat a run" with all of the characters. As a deckbuilding rogue-like, of which there are many at this point, I've been enjoying the combo-firing aspects of this game. This is mostly in comparison to some of the other games - I find it easier/more common for you to create nice combos that fire off in satisfying ways (I still lose a fair amount though). All of the characters (9 is it?) play very differently from each other - to the point that I sometimes have to figure out how they work through multiple runs. I obviously have my favorites, and I'm not exactly sure that they're all equally balanced (they're probably not), but it's given the game more "legs" for me to be able to keep on playing. In a way, the game is cut from the mold of Slay the Spire - but they added more stuff (characters) and more pressure (time pressure within levels). Strangely the game's name is not really memorable to me and I keep on forgetting it.