Going Under

Très bon jeu, graphiquement sympa, bonnes musiques, gameplay rapide à prendre et amusant, diversité des armes et des compétences...
L'univers est très drôle avec cette parodie de grosse boîte Américaine qui a tout les droits.
Un peu dur sur la fin, et j'ai galéré à me soigner tout le long du jeu, ou alors y a un truc que j'ai pas compris.

Rating:6/10
Completion difficulty:7/10
Going under is a pretty short and good roguelike where you work as an unpaid intern for a failing company.
I think you can do better if you are looking for a roguelike to play, but if you enjoy the theme, it's definitively the main appeal.
As you may be able to see, the theme is basically one long criticism of the current working conditions for many, but it uses the usual "corporate artstyle" for it's visuals. I think the presentation is a strong point, and compliments the themes well, and both together are what . The story itself was pretty simple, nothing awful or revolutionnary.

The gameplay I'm kind of conflicted on. It's a lot like other roguelikes. Enter a series of procedurally generated rooms, kill enemies, doors unlock, proceed. Then fight a boss at the end. Unfortunately, the gameplay feels a bit more slow than other games such as enter the gungeon, where you also have a dodgeroll but can use it even as you fire your weapon. In this game, you have to be a lot more thoughtful about swinging, because you're left vulnerable the entire time. The game is still very fast paced though, so you have in many situation to take risks to kill enemies quickly before they overwhelm you.
This means that you can't come out on top of every situation without taking some damage. The game becomes more about offsetting the damage you have to take (and any from your mistakes too).
There are a lot of fun weapons to use, though many are so slow that they're practically useless without the right skills.
Mentors and pinned skills allow you to have some control over your won, which I enjoyed. A shame that they're disabled in...
Impostor mode. It seems balanced with having some level of assistance on, because winning the last rank without it seems straight up impossible. It takes away all of your crutches, which does make sense thematically, but it makes the experience a lot more random again. Also, it being DLC means it has an especially infuriating end after finishing the highest difficulty, a huge spike compared to the base game.
I mostly had fun with the characters, theme and aesthetics, and the gameplay and story were moreso just a vector to deliver those, which is fine since the overall experience was positive.

un petit roguelike avec un univers agréable à parcourir
très simple, tant dans les graphismes que dans sa prise en main
typiquement fait pour jouer sur steamdeck
les personnages sont bien construits même si clairement les éléments d'histoire ne cassent pas trois pates à un canard.
bien opti, un visuel symple mais très sympa et efficace, sound desing très bon
je recommande

Clearly worth its price, this game can be hard for casual players but brings a lot of fun in any case.
The universe and dialogs are pretty interesting, full of humour and the visuals and musics are realy unique. I recommand at 100%

great game, great gameplay, great idea to mock corporate culture and that f***ing artsyle in such a cool way.

Vraiment excellent jeu!!

Une petite pépite, foncez !