Although it begins strongly, it regrettably loses its appeal because half of the forms are not enjoyable to use, there is too much grinding even for rogue-lite standards, and the boss battles lack excitement. The world is intriguing, and I appreciate the idea of playing as the villain to defeat the heroes, but the story itself lacks the charm to keep me engaged.

I didn't find it painful at all, and I actually had some fun with it. However, I couldn't bring myself to complete a run for this one compared to Dead Cells or Hades. It's an okay game.

This game takes a lot of inspiration from Dead Cells as an mixture of action, metroidvania, and roguelike. It has multiple different "weapons" in the form of skulls that give the player different abilities. As is to be expected, some of these skulls were much more powerful than others. I found the skulls to be diverse enough but none of them were sufficiently deep to hold my attention for an extended period.

The items you could equip had some interesting properties. Each item had a one or two modifiers. If you collected enough of the same modifiers, you would receive some sort of buff related to the original modifier. With a limited number of equipment slots, you were forced to make some interesting choices in which items you keep and which you drop.

While I can and did see some interesting interactions between the skulls and equipment, I felt like I was always a little too at the mercy of what items I was offered. Maybe I needed to get better, as Dead Cells demand, to push that comparison further. I just didn't feel like the combat was deep or crisp enough to warrant the time it would take to develop those skills.

Yeah... I've tried a few times now and, while this isn't a bad game by any means, I'm just not really vibing with it at all. The base combat is kinda boring and simplistic, as the diversity and depth is supposed to come from the various skulls you can obtain, but I've only found a few really fun skulls and a bunch of boring ones. Items seem overcomplicated and and pretty boring too, and this is one of those slow dripfeed games where metaprogression takes an eternity because it's +4% this and +6% that. On top of all that, I'm not really feeling the aesthetics and find especially the environment graphics to be quite dull and uninspiring. I will now accept that this game is not for me even though some love it, stop trying to find enjoyment in it and uninstall it once and for all.

5/5 talvez seja demais, mas é o único jogo que platinei na vida e quase 200h pra um roguelite tmb é um sinal.
O jogo é um plataformer 2D pixelado com trocentas builds possíveis boa parte por conta do sistema de várias caveiras que cada um atua como um personagem com estilo de jogo totalmente diferente carrega muito a rejogabilidade.
Outros motivo para a nota foi a infinidade de conteúdo que os devs deram de graça (apenas 1 DLC de 10 reais e bem no fim meio que pra fechar o projeto), patch pra caralho melhorando um monte de coisa, reworks, boss adicional, enfim, fiquem de olho neles.

Skul is one of the best roguelikes I've played. It gives the player a lot of freedom as to how to play and build while still remaining a challenge even after a good 200 hours. The final boss still finds new ways to end runs, which is equal part impressive and bs.
My problems with Skul really boil down to two general complaints. The first is that it feels like hitboxes linger for longer than they should. This is at its worst against a few bosses and a few hard mode enemies, but man does it feel bad to dodge through a move and still get hit by it. The other problem is that, at higher hard mode levels, there is less overall freedom in builds due to enemy stat inflation. This one can be remedied a good bit by playing on lower difficulties, but I still wanted to point it out. You can get away with more wild and less high damage builds on level 8-10 as long as the item/skull synergy is there and you play well.
There are three big positives that I want to touch on here: item balance, skull balance, and hard mode. Item balance is done extremely well in this. There have been plenty of runs where I'd bring a common item or 3 into the final boss because they are still good. A lot of the rare and unique (tier 2 and 3 respectively) items often have stronger but conditional effects to them, meanwhile a lot of common items are stats. Beyond that, the inscriptions are another key factor here. Inscriptions are like set bonuses, and every item comes with 2 of them. It is a solid decision most of the time to keep an item purely for its inscriptions if you can't easily replace them.
Skulls are essentially your class/characters in this game. You can have two of them at a time, and swap them out throughout the run. Like with items, skulls have a rarity assigned to them. Unlike with items, skulls can be upgraded. This makes the game so much more interesting to me, as every skull is viable and sometimes you might want to keep a skull in a lower tier. There's a healthy variety of skulls to choose from, and they each have 4 skills to utilize, altho you only get to use 2 at a time. These skills can sometimes completely change what items you want for your build.
Last and certainly not least is the hard mode, aka the dark mirror. This may be the best implementation of a hard mode I've seen. It upgrades the bosses, adds a new element to the adventurer fights, adds new enemies, and gives the player new advantages for each level you complete. That last part is what sold me on it the most, as a lot of games only stack the odds against the player. You get things like being able to choose your starting gear, stat upgrades for excess bones, a machine to lock in 2 different inscriptions, etc. Also, these upgrades are permanent. You can go down to a lower level and keep these benefits without needing to deal with the increased stats or new enemies.
Skul is a phenomenal roguelike. It will beat you relentlessly for a good while, but it also isn't merciless. There are a lot of things to play with and I'm still finding fun combos after 200 hours of playing.