These Doomed Isles: The First God
Last updated: 2025-08-02
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- Highly enjoyable and addictive gameplay
- Innovative city-builder roguelike blend
- Appealing art style and visuals
- Repetitive and unengaging gameplay
- Major technical and performance issues
- Frustrating card draw mechanics
Emotions
Satisfaction23%Frustration22%Disappointment14%Excitement9%Hope8%
- Reviews
(sample size) - 103
- Helpful reviews
- 97%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 3%
- Protest reviews
- 0%
- 56%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 44%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 225
- Negative points
- 236
- Gameplay points
- 204
- Perf. points
- 3
- Rec. points
- 66
- Misc points
- 13
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
Highly enjoyable and addictive gameplay
| Players find the game highly enjoyable, addictive, and replayable, especially considering its early access/demo state. Many highlight its strong potential and unique blend of genres. | 100% |
High anticipation for full release
| There is significant anticipation for the full release, with players eager for more content, especially new gods, difficulty levels, and overall variety to enhance replayability. | 21% |
Appealing art style and visuals
| The game's art style, particularly its semi-pixel or simple yet effective aesthetic, is consistently praised for being appealing and charming. | 11% |
Innovative genre blend
| The game's innovative genre blend, combining deck-building, roguelite, city-building, and resource management elements, is a major draw and contributes to its addictive nature. | 10% |
Well-balanced and challenging difficulty
| The game's difficulty level is well-received, with players enjoying the challenge posed by enemies and invasions, finding it perfectly balanced. | 8% |
Multiple difficulty settings
| The presence of multiple difficulty settings is a positive, allowing players to choose the level of challenge and strategic thinking required. | 7% |
Desire for endless mode
| Players express a strong desire for an endless or infinite mode in the final version, which would significantly increase replayability and allow for unique, long-form runs. | 7% |
Engaging card progression system
| The card drawing mechanism and the progression system, including leveling up and unlocking new card types, are highlighted as cool and surprising features. | 5% |
Permanent progression system
| The game features a permanent progression system across multiple runs, allowing players to continuously farm points and unlock cards even after losing. | 5% |
Satisfying victories and skills
| Players find the moments of victory and the use of skills to be incredibly satisfying, enhancing the overall gameplay experience. | 5% |
Strategic depth in gameplay
| The game's strategic depth is appreciated, particularly the tactical considerations required due to the lack of building demolition cards. | 5% |
Developer's commitment appreciated
| The solo developer's commitment and personal touches are noted and appreciated, building confidence in the game's future development. | 5% |
Effective tower defense elements
| The game incorporates effective tower defense elements, adding another layer of strategic depth to the gameplay. | 4% |
Optimism for issue resolution
| Players are optimistic that any current issues will be resolved as the game progresses through development, especially with continued player feedback. | 4% |
Full mouse play support
| The full mouse play support, complemented by keyboard shortcuts, is a highly appreciated quality-of-life feature. | 4% |