Hyper Light Drifter is a very good game and I totally forgot about the eldritch monsters in it! For some reason I always think of it as a sci-fi game even though it’s mostly about a dying/dead civilization with very little sci-fi.

I’ll check it out, thanks!

I enjoyed the combat in Mark of the Deep. You have a light attack, a heavy attack, and a gun. Ammo for the gun is refilled with successful melee attacks. I think the light attack is a little too light (it takes too many hits to defeat an enemy) but the heavy attack actually swings through enemies so I used that constantly.

Thank you for this. These are exactly the moment-to-moment annoyances that really add up. It’s one thing to have a tough boss or an annoying level, but if the entire dodge mechanic is annoying then I don’t think I’d stick with beating the game. And this game doesn’t look good enough (to me) to get past those annoyances.