Skeletal Avenger

It’s a lot like Undead Horde except more streamlined and your ‘horde’ is more…. Your skull that you can throw at enemies and funnel abilities into (otherwise picking them for your whole body or weapons). Your base consists of a vendor to spend your gold for equips, another to spend it for general upgrades, a mirror that houses stats and a couple compendiums for found abilities and monsters you’ve engaged. Lastly, there’s a quest map, letting you choose between easy, medium and hard areas scattered across the map. There are also bloodstones that you can use for…. Something. I don’t know as I’ve only played the game 3 times and have lost my save two of those times, so I’ve just finished dumping another 30 minutes into the game (after loosing about 90 minutes or so for the last two times combined), starting from scratch again and haven’t been able to save up enough for the dungeon keeper (?) guy to offer me whatever he’s going to offer for them. The quests take a decent amount of time to complete, as you’ll be making your way through 4-5 (or more?) different ‘levels’ before reaching each quest’s main boss guy that you need to kill. Thankfully (I think?) there’s a ‘save + exit’ option in the pause menu, so you can (hopefully) come back to your game if you need a break or just can’t finish the section before having to quit. I’m kind of scared to boot it back up and actually select my game from the save slots…. It’s there, but I’ve had games not want to save again right after jumping into a previous save file…. Guess I’ll see if I loose it again tomorrow when I have another chunk of time to put into the game. But even without this save issue I’m having, I’d rate the game as 3 stars. I’m sure that me putting a TON of time into Undead Horde is influencing this, as I was really hoping for something that set itself apart from that a bit more. After watching the trailer I wasn’t too sure, and I probably should have done what I do with Switch games and read a few reviews as well, but it’s 10tons…. The game looks and feels great. And I’d be having a blast if I wasn’t already so familiar with Undead Horde. 🤷🏻 I’d still recommend it, especially if you haven’t picked up UH yet. I’d probably even recommend it above Undead Horde just because of how streamlined yet still deep enough to be interesting it is. They really seemed to find that perfect balance here… and I’m sure that loads of people are going to have (or already have been having) a great time with it. ***aaaaaand I just booted it up and would ya look at that….. my save has been erased yet again…..