Chrysalis

Unique spin on tower defense and roguelike mechanics. Lots to explore and experiment with. Loved the feel of the different areas and the progression of different animals

I want to like it but the runs are way too long and tedious, and you feel like you die to random *** when you die or lose a follower.

Roguelike, Tower Defense, RTS, Creature Crafter; there's so many things that go into this game that just works so well together. Pacing could do some work, the first two levels are a cake walk, the third level is a challenge, and then the fifth to end feel like the difficulty got ramped up to 11. Sometimes you feel like you're not doing enough damage, only to get killed in 10 seconds due to enemies being incredibly numerous. I personally don't like the balance between the two currencies, Anima and Sylva. Anima is used to buy things and upgrade the player character and other units. Sylva is used in the defensive phase to plant the "towers". Anima is pretty limited and has way too many uses, however Sylva only has a few uses and you tend to get it in abundance. There's also a lot of ways to obtain it and the only real bottleneck is getting the spores to use it on. There are some performance issues, but I'm pretty sure it's just my hardware. This only occurs in the later levels in which a TON of enemies are spawned and a ton of the map is altered by the enemies mutating the map. If the developer is working on the game still, I do hope there is some kind of fix for this.