Evertried review: a rough-hewn roguelike that fails to stand out

Evertried

Evertried is an isometric, tactical rogue-lite where strategic positioning and quick wit in grid-based combat are the key to success. Make clever use of attacks, movement, skills and hazards to clear floors of enemies and advance higher toward your destiny in the afterlife.

There is no mouse cursor in Evertried. You control everything with the keyboard, from the hops and scythe attacks of your cute otherworldly hero, to the settings in the pause menu. It's a strange omission but one that is representative of the feeling this roguelike evokes throughout your time climbing its purgatorial tower of baddies. That is to say, a feeling that there's something important missing. In fact, there seems to be a lot missing from this tile-based timewaster, small touches that could have given its solid foundation the polish it needed to excel.

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