4/5 ★ – beemancer's review of HASTE: Broken Worlds.

Haste boasts incredible core gameplay with a unique twist on roguelike mechanics. There's a lot of Slay the Spire in the way you progress through levels, with squares that function as floor battles, elites, events, and merchants, but rather than building a deck or trying to become more powerful you just try to find ways to go FASTER. And you do go fast as hell in this game, and it feels really good to go fast. What you need to do is simple - preserve momentum by landing gracefully from each jump you make - but there's enough crap in the way to make it quite challenging. This isn't a game I imagine I'll play a lot now that I've beaten it, but I'll go into endless a bit. Ultimately what it does is fun, like 3D Sonic the Hedgehog games except it actually works, but there's not much to do with it. There's only 4 bosses in the main story that get repeated (so I assume there's not more in endless), and frankly 2 of them are okay and 2 of them are pretty janky. It's much more fun to just run in a randomly generated somewhat straight path with all your silly gadgets and relics. The story is also a little lacking, it feels like a college student started binging PBS Spacetime videos on Youtube, and the ending wasn't terribly satisfying. But the characters are fun and the main character, Zoe, is great. The game is fairly hard, but the difficulty settings are very tunable, which makes the game quite accessible. Overall, I'd recommend picking it up on sale if you enjoy going really, really fast. Oh, it's got a pretty good OST and it's pretty to look at, too.