Cavity Busters

WOW, Taking a 2-d game and making it so dynamic and versitile in the gameplay mechannics is epic. The endless ways to play and chain moves. wall run, to jumping on heads, to charge shot, deflection boomering vacume shots. Just scratched the surface and can see myself enjoying this more then binding of issac. Way better boss's and enemies and gameplay. Art style is EXACTLY what I'm looking for. Music's amazing too, kinda donky kong jungle beats. This is hella UNDER RATED.

Really fun and satisfying bullet hell. Most of the characters FEEL like different characters. It doesnt fall into the problem of them just being some modifiers slapped onto the normal character. The gunplay is fun and it's overall just fun

Comparisons are always a dangerous thing; but this one is a special case because of the genre. You cannot talk about modern roguelikes without mentioning the binding of isaac (The older one) and how that made an everlasting impression on the rest of the games that followed. After some years of becoming something akin to what it now represents said game, Cavity Busters came along to bring forward even more improvements to the genre. Now you don't have such an over-reliance on tank/twin-stick movement, the first thing that you see is that the usage of mouse + keyboard is necessary to play this one (it also has an adaptation to controller, yes), and the pace gets increased due to the possible accomodations that this brings forward. Another notable mention is the skill expression aspect that a whole new layer of movement also adds, this game has a bullet parry and a dash with I-frames to allow the skilled player to traverse much more efficiently many challenges, there is even a mention and acknowledgement of the inspirations inside of the game if you look for this in particular, these two combinations already give it a whole new set of qualities and layers of mechanics to enrich both the experience and difficulty. Now, onto the gameplay itself, there are still many more wonders to encounter, a system that rewards aggresive and explorative players the most, a fast-paced way of dealing with everything and an exquisite mode of implementing upgrades and such things to boost progression for whoever can withstand the given task. It is an amazing game, and it has enough content to give the player perhaps hundreds of hours before becoming repetitive; and as always, it has enough alternative modes to offer completely different ways to enjoy the base gameplay! TL;DR I'm happy I was able to finally buy it, I enjoyed playing it while it was in beta and now get the enjoy quite a polished finished product. If you want to give something a try, this one is, sadly, a hidden gem.