Rack and Slay

Very fun roguelite billiard game. Good replayability, each run can be built very differently and daily challenges have kept my interest more than most roguelites. I still play this game almost every day for a bit. If you want a simple billiards roguelite then its pretty fantastic.

I've played a ton of this game, and even after beating all of the levels and challenges multiple times I keep coming back.

Very good concept, but this inplementation relies too heavily on RNG. Whilst you have cotrol over your ball when shooting, that is the only control you have, as pretty much all items being active on the gameplay layer are RNG "20% chance to do X AFTER shooting". As such, you get to very little actually plan your playstyle. Add in obstacles/pit being placed randomly on the map and you can simply stumble upon unbeatable, as in not within your limited number of shots, set-ups. Likely because the game doesn't very if any cimbination of set obstacles, pits and enemies is beatable with X shots or not. As such, this isn't a very good roguelike. Sure, you unlock stuff through playing (as in, additional items to randomly get offered or to randomly buy) but you don't get blanket "X more health" or "X more Shot power" stuff or something along those lines. Also, the way runs are set to only be around 15 stages really shows the "smalltime" balancing and scope the game has. Yes, you can play Endless up unti the 500s of stages or so, but honestly, the game isn't getting any more challenging after a certain point. Adding "You take x times damage" doesn't equal difficutly, but then again, the way stages are generated, I don't think you could put in other difficulty adjustments. It is nonetheless quite a bit of fun for an evening or two, but i do not see myself coming back to this. Still seems worh the 3fiddy I paid for it.