Skeletal Avenger 9+

Edit: updated to remove one star for a 4/5. This game runs rather fine on my old iPad Pro. Today I tried playing on my iPhone 11 Pro Max with default settings also using a controller and there were times of considerable frame rate drops. It seemed to be worst in areas with a lot of translucent walls. This is on the earliest levels too. I can imagine it wouldn’t be any better later when there’s a lot more commotion on screen. Also no cloud saves?? 🤔 Still a great game but I won’t be playing on my phone. I’ll stick to the iPad.

Original: I’ve acquired a few 10tons games lately and this was a day-1 immediate acquisition (and I will likely get it for Xbox too) that I did not hesitate about. I’ve played only one other roguelite dungeon crawler in recent memory that is great in its own right (albeit more expensive) and I was curious how Skeletal Avenger would stack up against that: in short, I’m impressed from the 2-3 hours I’ve played so far. The gameplay is smooth and fluid with just enough variety in equipment/perks/etc and general ways to “avenge” to keep it all quite interesting. I’m playing on iOS 14 with an iPad Pro 11inch second-gen and Xbox Series X controller, and will be playing on an iPhone 11 Pro Max with the Backbone One controller as well. I haven’t tried without a controller and I think it would be tougher, not sure. Anyway keep up the great work. I’ll update this review if needed as I dump more hours into it.

This is a cool little dungeon crawler/rogue-like game. Needs controller support to push it over the top.

Wow, I was really impressed and really entertained by this rogue like. It has all the hallmark traits of a good action game. The difficulty is well balanced and fair. The enemies in the levels are also really interesting and unique enough with each other. Highly recommended.