Affogato

Item: Affogato
Rating: 56
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-07-18

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Summary

Highly enjoyable and engaging experience
Stunning art and visual design
Excellent and extensive voice acting
Innovative reverse tower defense combat
Unpolished and frustrating gameplay
Weak story and characters

Emotions

Frustration25%Satisfaction21%Disappointment19%Enjoyment8%Joy6%

Reviews (sample size): 172
Helpful reviews: 88%
Unhelpful reviews: 12%
Protest reviews: 1%

56%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
44%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 457
Negative points: 957
Gameplay points: 450
Perf. points: 24
Rec. points: 153
Misc points: 181

Point	Description	Importance
Highly enjoyable and engaging experience Description Players found the game to be highly enjoyable, offering a fun, relaxing, and engaging experience. Many highlighted its unique qualities and overall high quality, exceeding expectations and providing significant replayability. Importance 55%	Players found the game to be highly enjoyable, offering a fun, relaxing, and engaging experience. Many highlighted its unique qualities and overall high quality, exceeding expectations and providing significant replayability.	55%
Stunning art and visual design Description The game's art style, including character designs, 2D art, and overall visual presentation, received widespread praise for being beautiful, charming, and cohesive. The graphics were consistently highlighted as a strong positive. Importance 30%	The game's art style, including character designs, 2D art, and overall visual presentation, received widespread praise for being beautiful, charming, and cohesive. The graphics were consistently highlighted as a strong positive.	30%
Excellent and extensive voice acting Description The extensive and high-quality voice acting, particularly the Japanese and Chinese performances, was a significant highlight. Players appreciated the full voice-over for main and side stories, noting its emotional depth and how it elevated the overall experience, with Mephista's voice being a standout. Importance 28%	The extensive and high-quality voice acting, particularly the Japanese and Chinese performances, was a significant highlight. Players appreciated the full voice-over for main and side stories, noting its emotional depth and how it elevated the overall experience, with Mephista's voice being a standout.	28%
Innovative reverse tower defense combat Description The unique 'reverse tower defense' combat mechanism was a major draw, described as innovative, creative, and genuinely fun. Players enjoyed the strategic depth and novelty of this core gameplay loop, finding it engaging and well-executed. Importance 25%	The unique 'reverse tower defense' combat mechanism was a major draw, described as innovative, creative, and genuinely fun. Players enjoyed the strategic depth and novelty of this core gameplay loop, finding it engaging and well-executed.	25%
Outstanding and fitting music Description The game's music and soundtrack were consistently praised for their quality, with many specifically mentioning the jazz, blues, and funky genres. The music was described as magnificent, excellent, and a key factor in player enjoyment and immersion. Importance 23%	The game's music and soundtrack were consistently praised for their quality, with many specifically mentioning the jazz, blues, and funky genres. The music was described as magnificent, excellent, and a key factor in player enjoyment and immersion.	23%
Engaging and well-paced story Description The game's story was generally well-received, described as good, interesting, and engaging. Players appreciated its pacing, emotional depth, and ability to keep them intrigued throughout. Importance 19%	The game's story was generally well-received, described as good, interesting, and engaging. Players appreciated its pacing, emotional depth, and ability to keep them intrigued throughout.	19%
Memorable and well-developed characters Description The characters were a strong point, with players finding them interesting, distinct, and likable. Their well-developed personalities and enjoyable interactions contributed significantly to the game's charm. Importance 16%	The characters were a strong point, with players finding them interesting, distinct, and likable. Their well-developed personalities and enjoyable interactions contributed significantly to the game's charm.	16%
High quality for an indie game Description Many players acknowledged the game's high quality, especially considering its status as a small-scale indie title. They praised its completeness, attention to detail, and active developer support. Importance 9%	Many players acknowledged the game's high quality, especially considering its status as a small-scale indie title. They praised its completeness, attention to detail, and active developer support.	9%
Effective visual novel elements Description The game was recognized for its qualities as a visual novel, including high-quality CGs, excellent translation with natural language, and an overall anime-like feel that enhanced immersion. Importance 6%	The game was recognized for its qualities as a visual novel, including high-quality CGs, excellent translation with natural language, and an overall anime-like feel that enhanced immersion.	6%
Cute, charming, and cozy atmosphere Description The game's overall aesthetic and gameplay were described as cute, charming, and comforting, providing a cozy and pleasant experience for players. Importance 5%	The game's overall aesthetic and gameplay were described as cute, charming, and comforting, providing a cozy and pleasant experience for players.	5%