I Really REALLY liked this game, holy cow!
The art style was so fun - it perfectly captured the aesthetic of a game I would play on some flash website as a kid during computer lab. Giving Kongregate in the very best way. I also very much appreciated all of the menu and UI animations. Very cohesive and very slick.
I very much liked all of the RPG aspects; creating a build, choosing what to equip, all that jazz. I especially liked the spell building stuff, and I can only imagine the kinds of crazy builds players could make with that mechanic. Truly, everything about this game left me with a big ole smile on my face, and the turn-based combat tickled my brain in all the right ways.
I died pretty early on in the game and as I'm lowkey bad at games I wasn't able to get past a certain point, so I'm not sure if there was a grand finale or anything, but I really enjoyed what I played. I *think* permadeath was a feature? Or I just didn't understand how to save. Either way I did enjoy the high stakes of permadeath, but I wonder if there would be a fun way to keep the game going with a new character instead of having the game restart and forcing you to unlock features like spellbuilding and the blacksmith again?
It's hard to think of big criticisms, so I'm gonna end on a nitpick: IIRC when opening menus like the settings menu, you'd have to click the gears icon to open the menu, and then right click the gears icon to close the menu. I think just being able to click that button again would be more intuitive than requiring a right click.
But obviously that's a pretty small thing. I loved this game! Looking forward to more!
I played the game on stream around 1:08:00