Toro
Toroom is a dungeon crawler roguelike-like top-down shooter, where the protagonist just wants to come back to his bedroom after waking up in a world of fantasy. Fight your way through multiple biomes, clear rooms full of enemies, get as much loot as possible and defeat the bosses in your way.
Fight multiple enemies in a procedurally generated world, where every time you play, it’s a different world, different loot, and different enemies to fight.
Get loot, loot, and MORE LOOT! Find rewards, coins, and items that will improve your character for you to get ready for the challenges ahead.
Buy items, weapons, and even pets with many shops during your run! There are more than 70 different regular, cursed, and ultra-rare items as well as more than 35 weapons uniquely made for every biome.
Have awesome and challenging fights against hard bosses to defeat them and get to the next biome.
Steam User 1
I nearly dropped this game after 10 minutes because of the atrocious screen shake that you can't turn off! Seriously, maybe five people on earth enjoy screen shake and this game doesn't even let you disable it.
Anyway, after tying my head to an electric chair and syncing it with the screen shakes on my monitor, I could play without noticing it too much. /s
The game feels brutal at first. Most starting weapons for each character are incredibly weak and you often have to clear several rooms to find something slightly better. But once you adapt to enemy movements and attack patterns, surviving battles becomes manageable.
There are only 3 different biomes, each with its own boss. The first area is usually the hardest, while the last is the easiest. The game seems balanced around having multiple items, but since you start with basically nothing, it's tough early on. You typically end up with 7-9 items before facing the first boss, and if you don’t have enough damage or attack speed boosts, you’ll likely fail (especially on higher difficulties).
I liked the item design. Some items can instantly make your run 50% easier and if you’re lucky enough to stack more of them, everything (including the final boss) melts before your eyes.
I didn’t like how weapons are tied to biomes. In the first biome, you can never get the good ones. Just decent enough ones to scrape through the first boss, if you’re lucky.
Overall, this game is as much about skill as it is about luck (and honestly, much more about luck). You’ll only die to bosses and no matter your skill, it’s going to be tough unless you get good rng and acquire strong items. That’s kind of disappointing. For a roguelike, the game should offer more ways for players to grow stronger. Relying on rngesus as the sole difference between victory and defeat isn’t good enough.
I enjoyed the challenge, but this game isn’t for everyone. There are better alternatives out there.
Steam User 6
Decent twin-stick roguelike in the Isaac/Gungeon/Nuclear Throne vein, but not in the same class as those heavyweights. The arenas are cluttered with trees and other objects that you can walk through and they become transparent when you do, which is a weird choice. I'd rather the arenas to be simpler and less cluttered in a fast action shooting game.
But really the biggest thing holding Toroom back is the weapon and item drops, and how dependent your runs are on them. If you don't get a good weapon by the time you get to boss #1, you're probably not going much further. Some runs you can be drowning in all sorts of helpful buffs while others you can still be working with your starting weapon 20 minutes in with very few buffs. That leaves too much up to luck rather than skill because like I said, you really need some decent equipment to make a deep run, especially on hard mode.
The controls are nice and tight with the typical L stick to move, R stick to aim/fire, and a dash button on the RT. That's all you need. Cute pixel art graphics but there's just too many repeated elements in every arena (jars, jars everywhere!). A solid game but one that feels like it could've taken a big step up with a few tweaks. 7.5/10
Steam User 0
I have 300 hours on nintendo... wish this game was updated and had more stuff
Steam User 0
Its a cool game. Recommend it for sure.
Steam User 1
fun little game.