HOUSE OF GOD

The interesting visual style sadly fails to make up for the lack of enemy and weapon variety, the boring boss battles, terrible enemy ai, lack of proper item balance and massive performance issues. I ended up beating the game on my second run after just over half an hour of total playtime, mainly because the slowdown was so bad that the final boss practically ran in slow-motion. Now don't get me wrong, this game isn't terrible by any means. The concept and foundation are solid enough, but it really needed some more polish. Skip this and play OTXO instead.

It's fun! Pretty cool little roguelike, reminds me of Hotline Miami. Unlike most roguelikes, the enemies are NOT braindead. They're kinda smart. They wont just rush you and instead they'll move towards walls and cover eachother while they try to flank you. 8/10! for the price, 10/10.

With an intriguing visual style, atmospheric music, and extremely satisfying sound design for weapons, House of God makes a good initial impression. However, it runs like absolute garbage, lagging near-CONSTANTLY despite my overkill PC specs (32gb RAM, 8gb VRAM), which makes it awful to play. There also seems to be a bug where my character won't respawn on restart, necessitating I exit to the main menu and restart every time I want to attempt another run. I know the game is only three dollars, but the technical shortcomings make it pretty much unplayable. I can stomach a bit of jank from smaller indie games like this, but the aforementioned issues are significant enough to make House of God dead-on-arrival. It feels like there's a good game in here somewhere, but I can't really recommend it now without further iteration from the developer, which seems unlikely.