Kill the Brickman

Item: Kill the Brickman
Rating: 45
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-08-24

Summary

Engaging, high-value roguelike brick breaker gameplay
Deep strategic bullet and relic synergy
Appealing and unique art style
Unengaging and unfinished gameplay for some
Confusing and inadequate tutorial
Critical bugs and missing save files

Emotions

Disappointment21%Frustration21%Satisfaction13%Appreciation10%Hope6%

Reviews (sample size): 73
Helpful reviews: 73%
Unhelpful reviews: 27%
Protest reviews: 0%

45%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
55%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 97
Negative points: 167
Gameplay points: 84
Perf. points: 2
Rec. points: 30
Misc points: 40

Point	Description	Importance
Engaging and high-value gameplay Description Players find the game highly enjoyable, addictive, and a great value for its price, often leading to extended play sessions. Its unique roguelite mechanics, blending elements of Breakout and Balatro, are particularly praised for their fun and engaging nature. Importance 99%	Players find the game highly enjoyable, addictive, and a great value for its price, often leading to extended play sessions. Its unique roguelite mechanics, blending elements of Breakout and Balatro, are particularly praised for their fun and engaging nature.	99%
Deep strategic bullet/relic synergy Description The strategic depth offered by combining bullets, clips, and relics is a major highlight. Players enjoy devising tactics, such as using explosions and corrosion, and find the synergy between these elements exhilarating and satisfying. Importance 26%	The strategic depth offered by combining bullets, clips, and relics is a major highlight. Players enjoy devising tactics, such as using explosions and corrosion, and find the synergy between these elements exhilarating and satisfying.	26%
Appealing and unique art style Description The game's abstract, unique, and wacky art style is consistently praised. Players find it appealing, readable, and well-suited to the roguelike genre, contributing to the game's overall charm. Importance 21%	The game's abstract, unique, and wacky art style is consistently praised. Players find it appealing, readable, and well-suited to the roguelike genre, contributing to the game's overall charm.	21%
Intuitive and discovery-based learning Description Players appreciate the game's approach to learning, where discovery and intuition are key. The availability of information through hover-over notes helps in understanding mechanics without excessive hand-holding, making the learning process part of the fun. Importance 14%	Players appreciate the game's approach to learning, where discovery and intuition are key. The availability of information through hover-over notes helps in understanding mechanics without excessive hand-holding, making the learning process part of the fun.	14%
Satisfying and memorable sound design Description The sound design, particularly the ricocheting bullets and the 'brickmen' noises, is highly praised. Players find the sound effects satisfying and memorable, indicating a strong auditory experience. Importance 13%	The sound design, particularly the ricocheting bullets and the 'brickmen' noises, is highly praised. Players find the sound effects satisfying and memorable, indicating a strong auditory experience.	13%
Japanese language support appreciated Description The inclusion of Japanese language support is a positive point for players, indicating good localization efforts and accessibility for a wider audience. Importance 9%	The inclusion of Japanese language support is a positive point for players, indicating good localization efforts and accessibility for a wider audience.	9%
Active developer support Description Players acknowledge the developers' active efforts in updating the game, particularly in addressing clarity and progression issues. This suggests a commitment to improving the game, with many issues seen as fixable. Importance 8%	Players acknowledge the developers' active efforts in updating the game, particularly in addressing clarity and progression issues. This suggests a commitment to improving the game, with many issues seen as fixable.	8%
Integrated UI collision volume Description A small but notable detail, players appreciate the UI being integrated into the collision volume, adding a unique touch to the gameplay. Importance 3%	A small but notable detail, players appreciate the UI being integrated into the collision volume, adding a unique touch to the gameplay.	3%
Clean and crisp system Description The game's system is described as clean and crisp, suggesting a well-organized and polished underlying structure. Importance 3%	The game's system is described as clean and crisp, suggesting a well-organized and polished underlying structure.	3%
Online-lite bazaar components Description The bazaar feature, with its online-lite components, is noted as an interesting aspect of the game, though specific details on its impact are limited. Importance 2%	The bazaar feature, with its online-lite components, is noted as an interesting aspect of the game, though specific details on its impact are limited.	2%

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