Info about God of Weapons: Eternal Nightmare: Official game description: After defeating the malevolent Zhor and reclaiming the last light for the world, hope began to flicker once more. But the darkness had roots far deeper than anyone imagined. In the shadows of victory, a new evil stirs, festering in a forgotten, cursed city long lost to time. The light you restored has failed to reach this forsaken place, where nightmares reign and twisted creatures lurk. **Treasure Hunter** ------------------- Features a brand new Socket system that lets you power up your weapons with gems. **Necromancer** --------------- Wield the new Summon system, you are no longer alone on the battlefield. **Plague Doctor** ----------------- With control over disease, they spread deadly contagions to crush their enemies and gain even more power from it. **Favor System** ---------------- From the very beginning, players can upgrade their weapon of choice with Titanite, boosting its strength and increasing item drop rates. **New Weapons** --------------- Equip unique weapons, each with distinct looks and abilities. **Points of Interest** ---------------------- The challenges along the way test the player's courage and skill, offering valuable rewards for those who overcome them. **New Enemies and Bosses** -------------------------- Prepare to battle against ruthless new adversaries and fearsome bosses, each more terrifying than the last. Do you have what it takes to stand your ground? **Infinity Mode** ----------------- Step into an endless fight against the forces of darkness. With every passing moment, the challenge intensifies—how long can you survive before the shadows consume you? Release date: May 11, 2025 Categories: Survivor-like, Roguelike, Inventory Management, Summon System, Endgame Content, Character Progression Feature scans: - MTX: score 10; verdict: Fair; summary: The monetization for this title consists solely of a low-cost DLC ($2.49) for a cheap base game ($4.99). Reviews overwhelmingly praise the value and affordability, with only a few complaints about the base game feeling unfinished and the DLC missing features that should be included. No microtransactions, pay-to-win elements, or exploitative mechanics are present. The pricing is fair and non-predatory. - Proton/Linux: score 0; verdict: No Evidence of Issues; summary: The reviewed dataset contains a single user comment regarding Steam Deck performance, which does not explicitly indicate Linux/Proton compatibility issues. Based on the provided feedback, there is no evidence of significant Linux/Proton friction. The game is assumed to work well under Proton or native Linux. - Hardware Profile: No data Feature extractions: - Community Price: - Community fair range: $2.99 - $4.99 - Reasoning: Multiple reviews explicitly reference the base game's price as a benchmark for fairness, calling the DLC a 'steal' at €2.70 and praising the overall price-to-content value. The current base game price of $2.99 is consistently seen as reasonable and a reference point, suggesting the community considers a similar or slightly higher price fair. No evidence indicates the base game is overpriced or should be lower; instead, it is viewed as a good value. Thus, the fair range centers around the current price with a small upward buffer. - Playtime Metrics: - Game completion: 200.0h - Story completion: N/A - Session length: 3.0h - Endgame: N/A - Reasoning: The first two evidence snippets directly report session length: one player states three hours for a single session, and a Japanese review mentions typical playthroughs of 2 hours (3 hours for endless mode). These indicate a session length around 2-3 hours; I take 3 as a representative value from the English report. The third snippet explicitly states that fully completing the entire game (including DLC content) takes about 200 hours, which I map to gameCompletion. No evidence directly addresses story completion or endgame playtime hours, so those are null. - Time-to-fun: - Summary: The DLC offers addictive expanded content but introduces friction through item pool dilution and a boring early phase, with fun likely clicking only after reaching late-game or mastering the endless mode. - Stance: Clicks after - Anchor: N/A - Time to anchor: N/A - Friction: item pool dilution making builds harder; tedious early progression; boring endless mode with poor gem management - Unlock drivers: late-game inventory maxing; testing builds in endless mode - Conditions: being a fan of the original game; enjoying challenging late-game content - Player Archetypes: - Base Game Fan (buy) - Motivation: To extend their enjoyment of the base game with more content at a negligible cost. - Playstyle: Continues the same play patterns as the base game, exploring new mechanics and builds. - Experience: familiar - Purchase stance: buy - Labels: base game owner; franchise fan; price-conscious gamer - Reference games: God of Weapons - Endgame Grinder (sale) - Motivation: Unlocking endless progression and getting tangible rewards for time invested. - Playstyle: Replays content efficiently, optimizes class levels, and seeks repeatable loops for incremental advancement. - Experience: veteran - Purchase stance: sale - Labels: grinder; completionist; endgame player - Reference games: Risk of Rain 2; Vampire Survivors - Summoner Enthusiast (buy) - Motivation: Enjoying the power fantasy of controlling a group of summoned units in combat. - Playstyle: Prioritizes summon abilities, micromanages or synergizes with summoned allies over direct attacks. - Experience: mixed - Purchase stance: buy - Labels: summoner fan; Solo Leveling fan; pet build player - Reference games: Solo Leveling (anime/manhwa); other roguelikes with summon systems Below are summaries of things people say about the game per category. Each point is assigned a weight that represents how often it is mentioned across all reviews. What players like: - Great value for price (weight 0.75): The DLC is frequently praised for its low cost, with multiple reviews mentioning prices like $2 or 3 euros and emphasizing the excellent value for the content provided. - Overall positive addition (weight 0.73): Reviewers consistently describe the DLC as a good, wonderful, or great addition to the base game, indicating general satisfaction with the content. - New summon system (weight 0.63): A new summon system is introduced and well-received, with comments on its functionality, fit with preferences, and the fun, funky design of the summons. - New weapons and items (weight 0.55): Many reviews highlight the addition of new weapons and items that enhance existing characters, increasing playability and adding variety to the game. - New characters and mechanics (weight 0.52): Multiple reviews mention the addition of new characters and mechanics that fit well with the base game, including cool new classes and tuned mechanics. - Endless mode praised (weight 0.43): The endless mode is repeatedly mentioned as a standout feature, offering infinite play, challenge, and reward, and being exactly what the game needed. - Increased replayability (weight 0.3): The DLC is credited with adding significant replayability to the game, as well as refreshing content. - Game itself is fun (weight 0.17): Some feedback notes that the base game is well-made and fun, with the DLC making it even better. Common complaints: - Performance and crash issues (weight 0.73): Severe frame drops, single-digit frames, infinite loading screens, and crashes plague the game, especially on Steam Deck. Restarting often only helps temporarily, and some bugs from the base game remain unfixed. - Gem system is poorly implemented (weight 0.59): Gems are exclusive to the new endless mode and one dungeon, which feels odd and restrictive. Gems look too similar, requiring constant hovering to identify, and management/filtering is tedious. - Summoned creatures cause confusion (weight 0.56): Too many summons clutter the screen, making it difficult to track the player's position, see enemies, and avoid danger zones. Life steal does not apply to summons, making the Necromancer feel weak. - DLC feels like cash grab (weight 0.49): Many players feel the DLC adds complications rather than meaningful content, dilutes the item pool, and is perceived as a lazy cash grab. It also cannot be disabled, which forces unwanted changes on the base game. - Class and progression balance issues (weight 0.48): Some classes are much weaker than others (e.g., Vagabond, Merchant), and the challenge feels too easy while class balance needs rework. The normal 20-floor run is considered too easy after updates. - UI and readability problems (weight 0.42): Menus feel sluggish, fonts are too small (especially on Steam Deck), and numbers like 2 and 3 are hard to distinguish. UI descriptions are excessively long and obscure game elements, and sorting is broken. - Combat design is frustrating (weight 0.39): Mobs are too aggressive, making squishy classes nearly unplayable. Combat in the new area involves dodging traps and chaotic projectiles, leading to confusion and feeling unfair. - Enhancement and blessing systems overpriced (weight 0.21): The blessing system costs too much Titanite, discouraging use. The enhancement element was considered worse than expected. - Controller and mouse input issues (weight 0.18): The controller feels awkward, and there is a lack of mouse control. A cursor bug in the hunter selection screen remains unfixed. - No way to exit endless mode early (weight 0.17): Players cannot end an endless run prematurely, which makes the mode feel punishing and forced. A give-up function is sorely lacking. - No multiple save slots (weight 0.14): Players cannot create multiple save files or delete existing save data, which restricts experimentation and replayability. - Achievements force DLC purchase (weight 0.1): The DLC is required to unlock all achievements, which frustrates players who feel pressured to buy it for completion. Gameplay feedback: - Summon system introduced (weight 0.66): A summon system has been added, letting players summon various creatures such as turrets, undead, and elemental allies that follow the player and can act as weapons. - Gem system mechanics (weight 0.52): Gems are socketable items similar to Diablo, with five colors, four sizes, and two patterns per color, providing stat bonuses and new build varieties when placed in inventory or sockets. - Endless mode added (weight 0.43): An endless game mode has been introduced, allowing players to continue until death with increasing difficulty per floor, along with leaderboards. - New characters added (weight 0.35): Multiple new characters have been added, including Necromancer, Plague Doctor, Treasure Hunter, and three new characters with three variants each, totaling up to 9 characters focusing on different systems. - Strategic depth and build variety (weight 0.32): New mechanics such as weapon combination synergies, gem socketing, and backpack slot limits increase strategic depth and build variety over playtime. - New items and weapons (weight 0.3): A variety of new items and weapons have been added to the game, including unique weapons collection and summons as weapons. - Plague damage-over-time system (weight 0.28): A plague system has been introduced, redefining status effects with area-of-effect damage-over-time weapons. - Blessing and enhancement system (weight 0.28): A blessing system allows players to consume Titanite to enhance weapons and items before departure, and a boon system enhances item appearance rates and abilities. - New game modes and maps (weight 0.28): A new game mode featuring a tower with traps and points of interest has been added, along with a harder new map featuring new enemies. - Item unlocking and stash management (weight 0.2): An item unlocking system affects build flexibility, and stash management has been improved with quality-of-life upgrades. - Summon types and roles (weight 0.16): Spawns are of three main types (undead, automaton, elemental) with distinct roles, and a hate transfer mechanic allows strategic targeting. - Weapons with sockets (weight 0.09): Both dungeons feature weapons with sockets where gems can be placed, enhancing their capabilities. - Banish and boon system (weight 0.09): A banish and boon system allows players to remove unwanted items and increase the appearance rate and abilities of preferred ones. - Hero Aria with counter nuke (weight 0.09): Hero Aria introduces a perfect-dodge counter nuke mechanic, adding a new playstyle. - Chests and statues mechanics (weight 0.08): Chests and statues require the player to stay in place for unlocks, adding an element of risk-reward. - Unique inventory management style (weight 0.08): The game combines a 'Twilight Survivors' or 'Halls of Torment' style with inventory management, offering a distinct gameplay mix. - New content extends replayability (weight 0.08): The new DLC content, including characters, items, mechanics, and maps, significantly extends replayability. Performance notes: - Frame drops in late-game (weight 0.24): Players report significant frame drops at later floors, such as floor 73, affecting both Steam Deck and high-end PCs with RTX 3090 and 64GB RAM. - Game fails to launch (weight 0.09): Some players experience launch failures preventing the game from starting at all. - Windows restart required (weight 0.09): Occasionally the game requires a Windows restart to function, likely due to a crash or resource lock. - Cannot force close game (weight 0.09): The game cannot be forcefully closed via task manager normally, often requiring a full PC restart to terminate. Recommendations: - Must-buy for base game fans (weight 0.7): Many reviewers state that if you enjoyed the base game, this DLC is essential or a no-brainer purchase. It is frequently described as a must-buy and highly recommended for enthusiasts. - Essential purchase (weight 0.15): A few reviews describe the DLC as a must-have or strictly recommended purchase, indicating strong positive sentiment. - Startup loading bug (weight 0.13): One user does not recommend the DLC due to a startup loading bug, and another advises caution if other users report the same bug. - Great for rogue-like fans (weight 0.07): One user highly recommends the DLC for fans of rogue-likes or casual challenging games. - Great for God of Weapons fans (weight 0.07): One review highly recommends the DLC for fans of God of Weapons, citing great value for the price. - Revitalizes roguelike loop (weight 0.07): A reviewer says the DLC revitalizes the whole roguelike loop for the price of a coffee, giving an easy 9 out of 10. - Caution on save slots and pricing (weight 0.07): A reviewer recommends the DLC for base game fans but warns about save slot limitations and the DLC pricing structure. - Good for summon-style players (weight 0.07): One recommendation is specifically for players who enjoy summon-type gameplay. Other player notes: No miscpoints Emotions: - Excitement (weight 0.18): Players are excited about the new game mode, characters, and mechanics, particularly the summon system and Plague Doctor class. The fresh content, synergies, and low price contribute to high enthusiasm and fun. - Frustration (weight 0.17): Frustration stems from bugs like life steal not working on summons, late-game performance issues, slow menus, and poor UI. Class balance, visual clutter, and lack of explanations for new mechanics also cause annoyance. - Satisfaction (weight 0.16): Players feel satisfied with the DLC's value, new content, and improvements like the summon system and endless mode. The game runs smoother, offers varied builds, and is seen as a worthwhile purchase. - Disappointment (weight 0.09): Disappointment arises because the DLC dilutes the item pool, has poor gem mechanics, and endless mode is boring or broken. Old problems remain unfixed, and summons feel weak early on. - Joy (weight 0.04): Players experience joy from the new content, particularly the infinite mode and powerful summon creatures. Achieving high damage and having fun with explosive zombies brings happiness. - Annoyance (weight 0.04): Annoyance is caused by minion visual clutter, infinite mode being DLC-locked, the inability to end endless mode early, and small font on Steam Deck. - Surprise (weight 0.03): Players are surprised by the blessing system upgrading items, the strategic depth beyond initial appearances, and the complexity added by gem shapes and buffs to an already challenging system. - Anticipation (weight 0.03): Anticipation comes from waiting for fixes like an opacity slider to recommend the game, looking forward to exploring new systems, and planning to unlock characters. - Enjoyment (weight 0.03): Players enjoy the fresh addition to the base game, watching summon units attack, playing new heroes in endless mode, and the fun new mechanics overall. - Anger (weight 0.02): Anger is directed at the unfinished base game, lazy DLC design, unfun new area combat, and feeling charged extra for v1.0 after buying in Beta. - Love (weight 0.02): Players love the game, especially the endless mode, new items, unlimited runs, and rebalancing that enhance the experience. - Appreciation (weight 0.02): Appreciation is given for the developer's helpfulness, the good addition of new content, and the nice new weapons and classes. - Enthusiasm (weight 0.02): Enthusiasm comes from the great value and volume of content, as well as refreshing new systems that increase replayability. - Happiness (weight 0.01): Happiness results from the new content like endless game, summons, and new weapons that expand play variety and enjoyment. - Approval (weight 0.01): Players approve of the good value for the price and the very reasonable pricing of the DLC. - Desire (weight 0.01): Desire is expressed for more frequent updates and additional DLC content to keep the game fresh. - Resignation (weight 0.01): Resignation occurs because despite issues, the combined price is cheap enough to accept the drawbacks. - Luck (weight 0.01): Luck is felt by players who snagged a beta key, gaining early access to the new content. - Amusement (weight 0.01): Players find amusement in losing track of their position due to many summons and burning titanite to reach floor 100. - Amazement (weight 0.01): Amazement comes from the large amount of additions included in the DLC for such a low price.}