Wizard of Legend

If they ever make an Avatar: The Last Airbender game, this should be the standard we hold it to.

The game is super fun and challenging. The only thing missing is online co-op!!

This is pretty much the only rogue-like where:
1) You can basically create your own character at the start of each run.
2) Luck adds excitement and variety to the game, while not gatekeeping you from a win every run.
3) You manage cooldowns rather than resources (meaning the game is consistently more fun).
The game lets you be fun and creative, meaning you can have all-out fights in every room, not just the final battle (which DOES NOT DISAPPOINT in this game, either). This does make it a little easier than other rogue-likes, but your ability to choose your build at the start of a run (as well as follow any rules you set yourself) lets you make your own difficulty setting. There IS, however, a perfect run robe that you can unlock if you want built-in brutality.
This is one of the most creative and low rage rogue-likes on the market.

---{Graphics}---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe
---{Gameplay}---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t
---{Audio}---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape
---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Human
☐ Lizards
---{PC Requirements}---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boiiiiii
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{Difficulity}---
☐ Just press ‚A‘
☐ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{Grind}---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isnt necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding
---{Story}---
☐ Story?
☐ Text or Audio floating around
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life
---{Game Time}---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{Price}---
☐ It’s free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{Bugs}---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
Overall 9.5/10 Amazing game. Personally my favorite game of all time.

Two things hold this game back from greatness for me:
- No matter what spells you use, the most effective playstyle is always to unload them all as quickly as possible, because enemies get stunlocked that way, and stunlocking enemies is far safer. Then you run around waiting for all your spells to cool down, and repeat. The game even encourages this by saying things like "20 hit combo!" and a charge meter that empties unless you hit stuff.
This all results in gameplay that feels a bit one-note, despite having probably around 200(!) spells in the game.
- There are spells that are tied to dashing (e.g. "leave a fiery wake behind you", that kind of thing), but there is no way to have separate inputs for just doing a regular dash, and for using your dash spell. Since you are constantly dashing to avoid attacks and jump over chasms, you don't really have control over a major part of your arsenal, with your dash spell triggering when you don't want it to, and then being on cooldown when you'd want it.
-A third thing: there are hundreds of artefacts with interesting effects and synergies. Much like in Binding of Isaac and its ilk, you find them sort of randomly, but you can choose ONE starter artefact. Being able to choose two (max three) would be better though, in my opinion, because it would enable actual mini "builds" instead of relying on RNG.
Other than these, the action does look and feel cool, and the whole vibe of being a battle wizard, slinging fire and lightning at monsters in superfast combat is definitely something many of us probably enjoy.

TL;DR: Fast paced arcane boogaloo. Challenging. Feels good to control, feels good to beat. Does not feel stale, many options for starting build. Coop is fun. Game still getting updates. Some bosses have 1 annoying attack.
Just as a disclaimer, I have a lot more hours on the Switch than I do on Steam. I recently bought it here because my controller's analog stick broke.
Pros
Fast paced. No stamina, no mana. Just cooldown management and your ability to combo. Or to control a zone. Or to support your coop buddy, which leads me to the next point.
Great variety. Many, many skills, items and enemies, and the devs are still working on more. This promotes and incredible variety of playstyles and viable builds.
Interesting bosses. All of them use skills available to the player, but enhanced in some way to make cool boss attacks that are fun to dodge, with the exception of 2 (Zeal's Meteor Slam and Shuu's Turbulence).
Good starting build customization. This is more of a stab at Dead Cells. I enjoy the gameplay, but you can barely choose what you start with. In Wizard of Legend, you can choose 4 of the skills you have unlocked to start the run with. You can unlock them by using the persistent currency in the main hub.
Coop is fun. Complementary builds, full damage builds, anything you do with a buddy is fun.
Challenging. This is more of a subjective point. I like hard games. Yes, I like Dark Souls. If you don't feel like dying over and over, why are you looking at the reviews for a rogue-like? Anyway, bosses hit hard, enemies pile up. If you get distracted or enter auto-pilot, you'll lose half your health. Also, final boss is SCARY, which I like.
Active development. C99 is still working on adding a whole new area for lightning, and with it a bunch of new skills.
Cons (mainly nitpicks)
Some people feel the game gets repetitive. I don't feel this way, but it is a relatively common complalint from what I can see of the Steam reviews. If you end up feeling this way, there is an NPC to randomize your build to try and shake things up.
As stated in a previous point, there are a few (in my case, 2 specifically) boss attacks that are frustrating to dodge, but they are in the minority. Both of them are the respective boss's signature move, and it is absolutely possible to kill them before they can use it.
The unlocking process itself is quite random. I imagine it is so new players don't get paralyzed by the number of options, but if you find a spell you really like in a run, there's no guarantee you can unlock it when you get back.
For those who already know a bit about the game, I use the term "skills" to refer to arcana, and "items" to refer to relics. I feel like this should make the review easier to read to someone who knows nothing about the game.
Overall, the main negatives for me are just some design decisions that aren't bad. They just annoy me a little. That's how much I like the game, I had to put nitpicks in the Cons section.
Bottomline
Great game, I have lost countless hours playing it on the Switch, and plan on losing a lot more on Steam. This game is for you if you like fast-paced action, even if you don't like rogue-likes all that much. I don't, and I f***ing love this game.

Awesome game especially with the new steam remote play so you can play with your friends online. But there are a few easily fixable flaws that the developers still haven't fixed after a long time.
1. The camera is way too far zoomed in. This is extremely noticable in co-op, we found a work around by editting the files to zoom the camera out manually but it should just be built into the game.
2. If you use a controller to play (and you need to to play co-op) you can't aim abilities separately from movement even though the right analog stick is left doing nothing. On KBM you aim abilities with the mouse and move with wasd.