You get what you pay for with this, which is probably nothing since you can get it in a bundle with Cthulhu Saves The World at no extra cost. This game is essentially a glorified tech demo for CSTW, and as you'd expect from a freshman outing it's pretty rough. The balance is awful with many dud skills to pick that make the game harder than it needs to be if you play Hard mode, and while it has many modern conveniences I did find myself needing to grind an annoying amount. That said, the game is only about 4 hours long and it moves at a good pace in spite of the grinding due to how short battles are. The writing has also held up pretty poorly, being heavily referential for the sake of it, though there are a few clever bits like the resolution of the Usurper fight.

If you want to see the origin of the Zeboyd-verse then absolutely check it out, but otherwise just go straight to CSTW because it does literally everything this game does but better and more polished.

Reviewed on Mar 13, 2023


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