Death Must Die (2023)

This game had a lot of really cool elements to it, I'll admit that. I loved Vampire Survivors and Hades, and this had elements of both with a pretty neat loot system (says it's Diablo-esque, but I've honestly never played a Diablo game). In combining all of these elements, though, it feels like it does nothing really special. Not only that, but it feels like it's directly ripping off certain aspects of different games. The gods that give you powers just comes straight from Hades, timed waves of enemies and bosses at certain milestones that give you rewards in the form of power ups is exactly like Vampire Survivors.

It's impossible to tell when an enemy is attacking at a certain point. The idea of enemies telegraphing where their attacks are going to hit (also from Hades) is a great idea, but when I've got 50+ skeletons all converging on my location, I can't see the ground where the summoner is planning to attack.

The characters aren't different enough in terms of playstyle to warrant having 5 of them. You've got a character that swings a sword, a character that swings a sword, one that swings an axe in a tight circle, one that stabs with 2 knives, and the most different of them, a sorceress who shoots fireballs. All of that combined with equipment management of around 10 pieces for all five of these characters is overwhelming and not fun.

I will give credit where credit is due, I love the idea of certain milestones for each character (also tied to achievements, big plus from me) give you extra perks to make future runs a little easier. It encourages different builds and certain styles of playing. That's about all I've got though. I put a little over 9 hours in, got 60% of the achievements, and had absolutely no desire to play any more. I'm sure if it's something you'll enjoy, you'll really like it. It just maybe wasn't exactly my thing, and the things I didn't like were a much bigger issue compared to what I actually did like.