• Hammerwatch
  

  14 hours playtime

  7 of 38 achievements

i played both the castle and the desert solo as a ranger on easy. after completing the castle i tried a couple other classes for the desert on medium and then on easy and then went back to the ranger. after playing the castle i thought i probably should have chosen medium and/or a different class (it says ranger is easiest), but either of those changes left me unable to get past the first level in the desert.

i didn’t really try out the other classes, but maybe someday i will get some friends together and we’ll all pick different classes. i liked the way you progress by collecting money and buying upgrades, though it would have been nice to pick up money without having to get all the way on top of it. about halfway through the castle i looked at the controls and discovered strafe and auto-attack buttons that really could have been more discoverable. i played the whole thing with my controller set to the default fire in 8 directions mode, which meant i could only hit enemies from certain angles even though they could shoot at any angle. could have changed that setting or tried twin stick mode or mouse and keyboard.

this was okay as a single-player game, but i suspect it would be better in co-op. i’ll probably come back and try that someday, but for now beating single player on easy is enough for me.