In Woods

Great game. A lot of items and meta progression. Fun gameplay. Thx for not making me pick up xp :)

It's pretty good, but there are some major balance and pacing issues (as of 1.4) that keep me a little on the fence. There's a good bit of variety and longevity to the progression, and some interesting systems available, but some feel mistuned or undercooked. There are big difficulty spikes between maps and during a run, and sometimes it feels very cheap (a rusher type enemy hits you into a small group following you and you take close to a dozen hits in a second or so and die from nearly fully health). Every character has a melee and a ranged ability, but with most both aren't really viable build paths, and generally melee is the worse one. You gather wood for upgrades but in the course of the 20 minute rounds it's incredibly easy to just harvest all of it and not be able to upgrade at the last couple of upgrade screens (maybe it could use some sort of regrowth or interest mechanic?) The base game sound is incredibly loud (I'm at like 3% and 8% volume sliders.) The item descriptions are not always clear or well explained (what's final critical vs. critical?) The "survivor rank" score screen has to fully animate before you can skip it, and it doesn't actually seem to matter for progression. The damage numbers are big enough to cover up enemies entirely when hitting a lot, but the damage over time numbers are a third the height and are hard to notice (and maybe fire damage is really strong?)
There is some good stuff here, and if you like survivorlikes/bullet heavens this will probably scratch the itch, but I find myself frequently frustrated with things that are unclear, feel cheap, or just feel poorly paced. You seem very incentivized to redo early levels for 'prestige' run benefits because the coin payout in later levels can't possibly justify the difficulty spike, but that difficulty spike is also a raw stats check rather than particularly interesting or varied mechanical elements. It seems there are regular updates, so I hope some attention is paid to evening out some of the bumps, glitches, and unexplained mechanics in coming patches.

Fun, simple to understand, very enjoyable. best $5 I have spent in a long long long time.

Fun little game, totally worth price, 16 unlock-able characters, bunch of achievements to do.

I'm usually content with a game if I can get an hour per every dollar spent. At the time o purchase this game was $5 bucks and i've gotten 5.6 hours out of it. I still plan to play more but its a thumbs up.
I don't think i'd play past the ~4 stages but I will likely try all of the characters. Atm my fav is the gravity mage but I want to try the wrench person as well...if i can beat stage 3 :D.
I don't prefer using a controller but it works fine. I'd suggest turning auto attack on and quickly shifting b/w them as I *feel* like you end up with more attacks this way.

The game is enjoyable, but please, get a proofreader ?
A good portion of the items or stats is not explained, or their description is poorly written and hard to understand.
Huge difficulty spike between map 2 and 3
Cheap game, not polished with some game-ending bugs, but for the price, I'd say it's fine

Fun and different enough from other types of these games to make it an easy buy at this price.