Soulestination

I just finished the chapter one (i took my time) : it was quite fun and definitely worth the try. And Considering how cheap it is, you can't really be wrong, even if your are hesitant about the type of game it is.

A great in-depth magic tower game with wide range of possible approaches thanks to the artifact system which lets you customize your builds. The game isn't excessively difficult and has decent margin of error so that you don't need to find the strictest best path to complete it, but like with all magic tower games, mistakes will compound and can lead to softlock so save often and don't overwrite your saves too much to always have a way back, especially given that it's a 40-50h long game.

If I had to describe Soulestination, I'd say it's just a really condensed puzzle game experience. Magic Tower games are boats that get holes when you mess up. Maybe you don't make more mistakes and you are able to fix the hole and take the water out, or make more holes and then have to restart back to the point before you made your initial mistake. For this game, you'd slowly be bleeding HP while never being able to make enough net positive trades so you'd have to restart and replan your steps. Although frustrating (like with all Magic Tower games), Soulestination has very unique bosses, with just enough story and world building to keep you immersed with trying to save it's world. Personally what stood out to me was the meta bossfights. I think one where you have to change the time of your pc to avoid attacks. Even moving the game outside your pc border to create imaginary walls. I was like 'what the ***, you can do that in rpgm'. Honestly it's kind of insane what you can do.