Shogun Showdown

I've owned this game for 2 days. My wife keeps telling me to do something else. She just doesn't understand...

I must defeat the Shogun.

This game makes you feel like a genius.
Pulling off a combo where you swap places with an enemy so they hit their own teammate, then follow up by backstabbing another one... you just think, "Damn, I'm so clever."
But the truth is, that's exactly how the game is designed. The devs are literally encouraging you to play this way. Still, it feels like you've just broken the system—in the best possible way.

Alright, so I put over 110 hours into this game and finally beat day 7 with a single character.
The runs are always fun and different.
The weapons and skills ALL work.
But when you get to the later days, it simply becomes a game of RNG. If you don't get the right options there's spots where there's no way to win. It's just that simple.
Because of the RNG of the runs, I don't intend to pursue day 7 with anymore characters.
All in all I highly recommend this game, but it's not perfect.
8.3/10

A turn based strategy action game. Like Into the Breach, it's got pixel art and you know exactly what the enemies are going to do on their turn. This means that every death feels completely fair, and each turn feels like a mini strategy puzzle. But unlike Into the Breach, you control one character with a selection of moves with cooldown and move left to right as enemies spawn in. Each time you move or add an action to your queue, your turn moves forwards. Each "turn" is a single button press, so it moves very fluidly, no menus or confirmation buttons here. Just left, right, turn around, wait, and add and activate actions. It's presented very simply but slowly reveals more depth as you encounter more enemies and unlock more moves and characters.
This game has been a godsend for rocking my newborn to sleep. 1. You can play it with only the mouse while holding a baby in your other hand. 2. No need to pause, if you don't press any buttons the enemies don't move. 10/10 new parent game

Great replayabilty and exciting unlockable progression. The achievements are also very entertaining to attempt. Jiujitsuka is my favorite so far.

Every month I try to play all the Humble Choice games just in case there is a hidden gem in there somewhere. This game is the hidden gem. I tried this one with a pretty negative attitude towards it. Once I started I had a tough time putting it down. This game is worth it at full price and even more so on sale.

One of my favourite games of recent years. The closest game I can think of is Cobalt Core, but this has less random. The game comes down to learning and exploiting various enemy sequences, and the (overly) responsive controls feel great when you're in a flow. I 100%'d it and it felt like a challenging but not absurd goal.
As other reviews have said, this is better characterised as a puzzle game than a rogue-like, although there are random elements from run to run, and luck can make or break you.
There are some bits of information that should be explicit that aren't (boss health, wave spawn times), that prevent this from being a super crisp puzzle game, and the controls are at times overly sensitive, but the game overall is tight.