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Welcome to Insert Reviews where I make organized and informative video game reviews and gaming video essays. My main review series consists of in-depth reviews of roguelites and roguelikes. I also occasionally post gaming-related video essays, such as my breakdown of what makes some game communities so toxic. This channel is just a hobby for me, so life can get in the way of me posting regularly.
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Amazing Maze-building TD Roguelite -- Emberward Review [Early Access]
Emberward is tower defense roguelite game that has a twist: you build the maze and therefore the path that enemies go down. This same maze also determines how you can place your towers. It's clearly still an early access game with content missing that would ensure true long term replayability (it's early access), but it's already a great game and it has a solid core. So let's get into it, and let's review Emberward.
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Intro: 0:00
Gameplay: 0:17
Variety & Randomness: 5:55
Progression & Replayability: 10:57
Narrative & Story: 13:02
The Verdict: 13:12
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Steam link:
store.steampowered.com/app/2459550/Emberward/
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Nexus.gg/insert
Intro: 0:00
Gameplay: 0:17
Variety & Randomness: 5:55
Progression & Replayability: 10:57
Narrative & Story: 13:02
The Verdict: 13:12
My 2022 roguelite roundup:
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You can also find more of my in-depth roguelite and roguelike reviews here: ua-cam.com/play/PLcqPOy1T0HmoMfDfobQYiLVVahd7NKCws.html
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#Emberward #Roguelite #Roguelike
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Lots of Potential, But Not a Lot of Content -- The Rogue Prince of Persia Review [Early Access]
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Evil Empire, one of the makers of Dead Cells, are out with a new game in Early Access, The Rogue Prince of Persia. It's another side-scrolling action roguelite, but it's definitely not just Dead Cells 2.0. While there are some similarities, there are also a lot of different design choices made along the way. And importantly, the game is early access, and just needs more content. So let's get in...
Should You Grab Hades II Right Now? -- Comparing Hades vs. Hades II [Early Access]
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Let's compare Hades 1 & Hades II today. I've been having a great time with the sequel, and I want to take a step back and compare it to the first game and see if it's worth buying now for those fans of the first game. Hades II surpasses Hades 1 in some ways, but it lacking in others. Ultimately, it depends what you're looking for. So let's get into it. store.steampowered.com/app/1145350/Hades_I...
Great FPS Gameplay! But Everything Else… -- Deadlink Review [FPS Roguelite]
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Let's review Deadlink, which is an FPS roguelite with incredible FPS gameplay. It has fun classes and different characters with fun fast paced movement abilities. It also channels the modern Doom games with the fast-paced in your face gameplay style. But the roguelite or roguelike elements don't hold their weight quick as well. So let's review Deadlink, another first person shooter roguelite to...
Cool Ships, Nice Card, & Good Vibes -- Cobalt Core Review [Deckbuilder Roguelite]
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Let's review Cobalt Core which is a fun deckbuilder roguelite that adds a nice tactical twist to more standard (but well executed) card game roguelite mechanics. There is some fun ship movement, different team combinations with different crewmates, and different playstyles with different relics. But the game has a couple flaws that limit long term replayability. So let's get into it. Intro: 0:0...
Fast-Paced Action Roguelite that Gets Hectic -- Knight vs. Giant: The Broken Excalibur Review
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Let's review Knight vs. Giant: The Broken Exacalibur which is a fun fast-paced action roguelite that hasn't really gotten much attention. It has rewarding combat, solid progression, and a surprisingly good story. But, it's not without its flaws. So let's get into it. Intro: 0:00 Gameplay: 0:16 Variety & Randomness: 10:08 Progression & Replayability: 14:36 Story & Narrative: 19:20 The Verdict: 2...
Heretic's Fork Review -- Unique Card Mechanics Fused With TD Gameplay [Roguelite]
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Let's review Heretic's Fork, a roguelite that fuses tower defense elements and card game elements to create a game that feels unique. It superficially feels like a bullet heaven or vampire survivor-like game, but it really does play more like a card game with some light TD elements. The game has a lot of fun qualities, but it also help back by a lot of small things here and there. So let's get ...
Balatro Review -- Is the Hype Justified? [Poker-Inspired Roguelite]
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Both simple & complex. Both familiar & innovative. Easy to pick up with lots to master. Balatro lives up to the hype it's received as an easy to pick up poker-inspired roguelite that has a lot of depth and replayability to it. I've been living this game so far though, of course, no game is perfect. So let's get into it and let's review Balatro. Intro: 0:00 Gameplay: 0:14 Variety & Randomness: 1...
I Played 16 Roguelites During Steam Next Fest 2024 [Quick Reviews]
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I played 16 different roguelites in this past steam next fest. I'm going to give them each a quick review and first impression and talk about which ones I'm sold on, which ones I will wishlist, and which ones I'm not interested in. So let's get into it. Intro: 0:00 Throne of Bone: 0:31 Helskate: 2:01 StormEdge: 3:29 Epic Auto Towers: 5:09 Necrosmith 2: 6:29 Meta-Ghost: The Breaking Show: 8:01 R...
Hadean Tactics Review -- Fun Hybrid Autobattler-Deckbuilder Roguelite
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Let's review Hadean Tactics, a roguelite that combines autobattler and card game elements to create a unique fusion. It has solid gameplay, great buildcrafting, and lots of fun combos. So let's get into it. Affiliate game link (gives you a steam key for games and helps the channel): www.nexus.gg/insert/hadean-tactics Nexus.gg/insert General steam link: store.steampowered.com/app/1260590/Hadean_...
Arboria Review -- Soulslike Roguelite With A Lot of Character [1.0]
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Let's review Arboria, a 3rd person action roguelite with soulslike combat. Arboria has a great amount of weapon variety, enemy variety, and fun buildcrafting. But the game is held back by some balancing issues and a lack of polish. So let's get into it. Affiliate game link (gives you a steam key for games and helps the channel): www.nexus.gg/insert/arboria Nexus.gg/insert General steam link: st...
Against the Storm Review -- New Favorite Roguelite? [RTS City Builder]
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Let's review Against the Storm, an RTS, city builder roguelite. This game has an incredibly solid foundation of city building and management sim mechanics that it mixes with randomized buildings, modifers, buffs, etc. that bring a lot of roguelike elements and flavor to the game. By doing this, Against the Storm doubles down on what I love about city builders what avoiding what I often hate abo...
Arcanium: Rise of Akhan Review -- Underrated Team-based Card Game Roguelite? [1.0 Full Release]
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Let's talk about Arcanium: Rise of Akhan which is a card game roguelite with a twist. In Arcanium, you control a team of three heroes instead of just one, each of whom have their own decks, relics, ultimate abilities, etc. You also navigate an overworld that gives some of the most flexibility that I've seen. This deckbuilder roguelike has some great variety and buildcrafting, but it does still ...
Spiritfall Review -- Hades, Smash, & Brawlhalla in One Game [Early Access]
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Let's talk about Spiritfall, a unique 2D platformer roguelite that mixes gameplay from Smash and Brawlhalla with a Hades-like roguelite system. The core gameplay is fun, and the game has a solid foundation of enemies, progression, and other basic gameplay element. But it does have some flaw in its current early access state. So let's get into it. General affiliate store (gives you a steam key f...
All New Roguelikes & Roguelites that I played in 2022
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I review every new roguelite and roguelike game that I played in 2022. Each review is around 1 minute long, and I reviewed my favorite, best roguelites, my top roguelikes, random roguelikes in my steam library, new roguelites, and classic roguelites and roguelikes that helped start the genre. If you enjoy roguelite games or roguelike games, let me know if there are any other roguelikes or rogue...
Cult of the Lamb Review -- The Cult Builder Action Roguelite Hybrid
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Cult of the Lamb Review The Cult Builder Action Roguelite Hybrid
Rogue Legacy 2 Review -- Best Progression-Focused Roguelite? [1.0]
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Rogue Legacy 2 Review Best Progression-Focused Roguelite? [1.0]
Gordian Quest Review -- Novel Deckbuilder with Tactical Gameplay & RPG Elements [1.0 Full Release]
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Gordian Quest Review Novel Deckbuilder with Tactical Gameplay & RPG Elements [1.0 Full Release]
Peglin Review -- Peggle with a Roguelite Twist [EA]
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Peglin Review Peggle with a Roguelite Twist [EA]
I Tried 17 Roguelites During Steam Next Fest 2022 [First Impressions]
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I Tried 17 Roguelites During Steam Next Fest 2022 [First Impressions]
How Many Players Actually "Beat" Roguelikes & Roguelites?
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How Many Players Actually "Beat" Roguelikes & Roguelites?
Rogue Tower Review -- Tower Defense Roguelite Hybrid!
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Rogue Tower Review Tower Defense Roguelite Hybrid!
Otherworld Legends Review -- Such Wasted Potential
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Otherworld Legends Review Such Wasted Potential
The Confusing Debate Over What "Roguelike" Means
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The Confusing Debate Over What "Roguelike" Means
Vault of the Void Review -- Roguelite Deckbuilder with High Skill Ceiling [EA]
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Vault of the Void Review Roguelite Deckbuilder with High Skill Ceiling [EA]
Have a Nice Death Review -- Almost Great But Not Quite There [Early Access]
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Have a Nice Death Review Almost Great But Not Quite There [Early Access]
Risk of Rain 2 DLC: Survivors of the Void DLC Review -- More Great RoR2 Content
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Risk of Rain 2 DLC: Survivors of the Void DLC Review More Great RoR2 Content
Sifu Review -- Always Challenging, Sometimes Frustrating, & Overall Great
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Sifu Review Always Challenging, Sometimes Frustrating, & Overall Great
Gunfire Reborn Review -- My Favorite FPS Roguelite
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Gunfire Reborn Review My Favorite FPS Roguelite
Pawnbarian Review -- Unique Chess Puzzle Roguelite!
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Pawnbarian Review Unique Chess Puzzle Roguelite!
It's incredible how many games I never heard of in this list 😅 and that's great! Gotta check out some of those. About Isaac, the DLC Repentance It's absolute gold to add even more replayability. Also, if you liked Rogue Legacy, I highly suggest to play Rogue Legacy 2!
You should definitely try roboquest. It is similar but has improvements in all the things you criticized here.
You speak too fast. A monotonnous wave of words loses where their meaning just disappears when you don't pronounciate correctly. Take your time.
Just play doom or quake.
Including titles of game as examples in your poll could also have anchored respondents to games they enjoyed or have more experience with
It got better
'Movement shooters like Overwatch' bro, what are you saying lol
Hey! Have you checked/played Astral Ascent? Really good game with some inspirations from Hades
I've been playing it a lot recently actually! It's a lot of fun. Should be one of the next games I review
@@InsertReviews Cool! Go ahead, I'll watch it. Me and my friend were looking for some Roguelikes/lites and I just randomly came across your channel.
I plan to make a deck builder. I would like your feedback.
never played a TD game before but I love roguelikes/roguelites, so might give this one a shot!
Ive done both biomes on Hard and unlocked all heroes/flames atm and waiting for content. ^^ very nice game .. im missing alot of meta progress but i didnt wanna rush that.
In a similar spot myself. Definitely excited to see the rest of the content when it comes
Runeroots TD looks nice ---- Bloons td6 is very much the same every game tho.
Great video, I have been enjoying this game! The Tower Defense genre has been getting a lot of great titles over the last few years ^^
Definitely! Felt like it was dead for a while, but have seen some good TD games lately
I’ve been looking for a new TD. This looks interesting.
It's a good one for sure!
watchlist or get Axon td Uprising for sure!
Thanks for watching! Planning to do the next couple reviews on games that released a while ago since I covered a couple early access games in a row.
Released on android now!
If i didnt enjoy hades 1 too much, because it felt too much of mashing dash and attack, would i like hades 2 more possibly?
Possibly, I haven’t finished hades1 but i tried hades 2 recently and i liked it far more than hades 1
I bet you'd like Hades II more but it's hard to say exactly how much. You can't dash spam in the same way and the combat often feels a little less button mashy with Hades II allowing for a lot more slow, less attack spam style builds. But it's also still Hades DNA which is on the more attack spammy side compared to anything soulslike for example.
Cobalt Core is a cool game, but Lone Star kind of ruined it for me, it is a similar game which I think is deeper and better.
Nice review. Thanks for putting that game on my radar. I'll definitely pick it up at a later point. Thanks for the video :)
Insert! Great review! Have you seen Zet Zillions? I love your deckbuilder reviews and think this may be worth looking at.
Thanks! I hadn't seen that one before actually. I'll have to take a look at it
Interesting and precise review. Well done! THANK YOU for saying that's not Dead Cells 2.0, since it's not on many levels. I don't agree about your analysis on medallions' system: It already gives you the ability to have a big variety in runs. I already played It for a LOT of hours and I had the chance to create Crazy builds, especially when creating builds with medallions with 3 different elements, or use paper lion to have a Crazy level of damage. New medallions are on the way: devs did also on Discord a contest to propose new medallions and some of them Will be considered in next updates. All the other considerations are Fair in my opinion, but it's Just a month and a half from the beginning of early access so it's to be expected (like you said). I don't like people that analyze the game as if It's a 1.0 since it's not Fair and it's not your case. About difficulty levels, EE announced the awakenings through an in game cutscene that Will allow to manage difficulty in a customizable way (maybe like hades?). I think that the game has already a good amount of content to allow the player to have fun for a lot of hours (let's Say I'm MORE than 50 right now...), so I Highly recommend the game. ... Of course, IF YOU EXPECT AN EARLY ACCESS GAME AND NOT A FINAL COMPLETED GAME.
Thanks! Early access games are always harder to review because it's a work in progress so when you point out missing content it's always caveated with "but it's not supposed to be complete." Some people definitely expect too much out of them though which probably means they might not be the best person to play early access games. Interesting, I'm glad they're adding difficulty levels soon! Curious to see what they will do with a more customizable system. Fair enough on medallions. Some of them are very powerful and some of the on X (e.g. on kick) effects are fun. I just wish I had a couple more buildcrafting pieces or synergies with the weapons or something else to play around with.
@@InsertReviews yes I agree, also you cannot justify everything that doesn't work with "it's Just early access". Yes I'm waiting for new medallions to try different sinergies and have more variety, but Hey I already have as many hours as dead Cells and the Road to 1.0 Is still long, so I'm super Happy of the current situation 😉 I'm curious to see what's next, devs previewed a system that increases your movement Speed It you concatenate acrobatics moves.... Let's see! Maybe next week 🤞
great review
Thanks as always!
Currently 1.99$ on Switch - great review - really in depth and helped me make my choice to purchase - thank you
Dude, you have become my go-to channel for the rogue-lite genre. You're one of the very few reviewers and creators who even understands the difference between rogue-lite and rogue-like (or maybe the others just don't care and lazily use whichever category they feel like). Thanks for making the content, appreciate it.
Awesome review. You had me at accurately calling it a rogue-LITE (not -like) and keeping it to 5 minutes focused info. Keep up the great work, looking forward to more reviews from you. And btw, I also really liked Dicey Dungeons, was a lot of tun.
Love your review! And really appreciate that you called it a rogue-lite (getting annoyed by reviewers who don't know the difference between lite and like).
I really love Hades, but Hades 2 comes kinda subpar. I mean I can see they try something different Different combat, story, building system etc. But it feels lacking and generally, slow? Combat doesnt give you the fast paced feeling of immortal god hacking and slashing through wretches, sometimes can be boring You die so easily, with new building system it is really hard to gather a complimenting boon set, sometimes it is really really weak. Mid bosses can be impossible for some weapon and boons, more often then first game I played for hours and killed chronos two times but didnt feel like getting permanent upgrades. Mirror of night upgrade system in first game was so simple and clear, in hades 2 I am collecting herbs and stones but I cant get a clear idea how much progress I made, what I need now? a pink flower or moon dust, where? And major joy kill for me was characters, I dont know how to explain but in first game everyone was so unique, different yet charming, I could feel relationship and interactions between them, this time, I couldnt feel that depth? Hard to explain, Zagreus was my boy, smug, easy going, fun yet deadly .. Melanoe, i dont know, fury sisters have more style and spice. Different enemies and attack patterns give you a real challenge it is fun but after Hours of grinding you still feel like they can beat you to a pulp, with just one wrong dash and here goes your half health bar.. Maybe Hades was soooo good it is hard to compete. I dont know, dont want to bad mouth new game for no reason.
You just saved me 30 bucks thank you
why can't I turn disturbed music off?
Ive played Ziggurat 2 to death so this looks perfect for me
This was literally the "pinball" of xbox
Thanks for the review!
Being older, I vaguely was reminded of GAUNTLET game series. Too much action for me, but I hope fans don't overlook this game.
always killing it with the vids big guy
The point you make at 19:08 is incredibly thoughtful and useful. It's the same thing that turned me off of Across the Obelisk. I want the variety to come from within the run, not the planning beforehand. I ended up regretting both purchases exactly because of that
I really liked Neon Abyss, but it quickly gets into a “where the heck is my character” situation. Between a long line of following eggs masking the unit, as well as weapons that cover 80% of the screen, it was frustrating to play. I really liked the concept and art style.
great comparison
A very good breakdown. Thank you
We can always count on this channel for incredible analysis. Alas i have to wait for console for this, but its got to be my most excited for game of 2024....
Won't come until at least 2025 for console, but I'm sure it will be worth the wait
It's not better yet, but it's pretty close
Good breakdown. I've almost broken down and bought into the early access version, but I've always managed to hold myself back. I want more Hades in my life, but I also want the full experience with a complete ending and features.
Had to balance that myself too. Ended up just playing for a couple clears before putting it down for story reasons.
honestly, i'd just play hades as much as you can to scratch that itch as to savor hades 2 but oh my *god* the game is so good. hades 2 feels like it's moving forward in every aspect, even in early access. there's definitely stuff missing and some big stuff but unless they somehow fumble that content, this will be even more of a masterpiece. the cherry on top is the fact that the overall mood of the game is much different than 1 so it's not like it ever replaces what hades was. it's honestly *very* different in so many ways. the combat, the characters, the tone, the speed, the abilities, this games version of the mirror, the new god synergies, a couple gods from hades 1 getting basically total reworks to be different. it's impressive how they managed to make you feel right at home but feels totally new be excited hahahaha
Love the new style and always support experimentation! Here's a comment for the Algo :)
Appreciate it!
love these games and love this analysis!
They're both amazing
noiceeee
Thanks for watching! I wanted to try a different style of video for Hades II and save my standard in depth review format for the 1.0 release of the game. Have a couple more non-standard review videos for this year. Also playing some Rogue Prince of Persia now so should next video should be on that.
great review and verdict. I may come around to trying this game someday
Thanks! Hope you enjoy it if you do
Thanks for another review. A Doom Roguelite does seem interesting. If I ever have too much time again, I know where to waste it. :)
Most doom-like roguelite for sure.
As always, thanks for the review. On a side note, how do you compare this to Roboquest? Which one is better in your opinion? (That is If you've played Roboquest)
I think Deadlink is slightly better from a pure FPS gameplay perspective, but I enjoyed Roboquest more than Deadlink as a whole. It just felt like my runs and builds evolved in a more typical roguelite way that was more enjoyable (with its own limitations of course). They had a couple big updates since I last played that should have added even more variety to Roboquest, but can't comment on them firsthand.
While I do think Roboquest has better progression, at the same time I thought Deadlinks gameplay was much better, If Deadlink had Roboquests progression and Gunfire Reborns weapon variety it would be perfect
Good watch. I enjoyed it
Glad you liked it
WTH. Where are all the comments? BTW ty for high quality video.
Thanks, appreciate the support!
its a mobile game first and it focuses on being that and its really great at it with its simplicity as mobile screen cant have too many buttons and feels good to control as a mobile game and why should i play this on pc there are countless other aswm complex roughlite u can explore in pc and its not that its justn a simple game that is very well optimizzed for mobile device