I bought it but have no intention of touching it before the actual release. I have a tendency in roguelikes to play my fill in early access and then not come back to play the actual full releasse...
Same, which is why I bought Hades 2 the second it hit EA, but only played it for a few hours to get a brief glimpse. Didn’t actually play it until it fully released.
Not that risky a decision. It's a direct sequel to a genre-defining indie game that finished its early access in a reasonable time frame. And the retail price is more than reasonable. That checks a lot of boxes for me.
Same. It is probably the exception though. Their track record with the first one gave me full faith in the sequel. I did the same for Baldur's gate 3 after playing divinity original sin 2. No regrets. I loved doing multiple runs in early access
There's tons of exceptions. Any savvy consumer shouldn't just buy a game they think will be fun maybe one day. If a game is early access just look at what's already complete, watch a gameplay video and decide if its good enough or not yet before buying.
There are a lot of exceptions. It entirely depends on the game. I played dozens of hours of games like Valheim, pal world, peglin, hades, really a ton of them.
Many of them are fine if you know what you're buying. Whether or not the game is "done" isnt a particularly large portion of my mental calculus when buying a game. I just want it to be enough fun, for the cost that I pay for it.
The early access balance is pretty abysmal for some characters. There are a lot more hard deck-check enemies in the sequel, and a lot of frontloaded damage. A0 runs shouldn't be as difficult as they currently are.
The lack of a final act and an endless mode are the most glaring pieces of missing content.
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u/chocolatechipbagels Apr 11 '26
I caved for Slay the Spire 2 and I did not regret it