The Slormancer

Very fun game for a short while. With 1.0 it seems it will expand on the endgame, so should get even better.

This game embodies what an ARPG should be. You get an idea for a cool build then reroll gear stats, respec skills (for free) and tweak and optimize to your heart's content. Exploding hordes of enemies feels very satisfying while you're farming more gold & materials to upgrade your dream build. And if you get bored, try a new build!

It's an amazing that scratch that ARPG itch where you can explore multiple build and break the game. There is a decent amount of content as 0.9. Looking forward to the release !

Amazing work by the devs.

It's the middleground in between a Roguelike (where you will feel OVERPOWERED when it clicks) and an ARPG (The whole game as is).

Real fun game! Lots of content and grinding to your heart's content. Multiplayer please!!!

Played since the first few months of early access, this game is great, impressive work for only 2 dev, looking forward to the release day

CANNOT PLAY THE GAME! locks the resolution to something weird and the mouse cursor is impossible to use to change any settings cant even play the game right now.

Enjoyable game play loop, tons of loot, so many different functional builds, great humor - this game has a lot going for it that is very much worth exploring. The sheer number of build defining or build complimenting weapons you can unlock, level up, AND evolve is incredible when comparing it to other games in the genre. Do yourself a favor and pick this game up and enjoy.

A really wonderful, witty and fun ARPG.
Better than a lot of other (higher-budget) options on the market!

Played mostly during the first few months of early access. Looking forward to the full release!

Indie arpg's are best arpg's. This game is no exception so drop your corpo's POE 2 and D4 games an play this gem - it's great!

Very good, can't wait for 1.0. Amazing work for such a small studio

Hi, I'm a huge fan of the game. But until it's translated into German, I won't recommend it or give it a positive review. The language translation is extremely important for properly implementing the game mechanics. I've been hoping for a German translation since the beginning.

Very enjoyable grind. Feels good on controller. Can't wait to play 1.0.

I've got almost 300 hours in the game and I still feel like there are tons of ways to play even a single character class. It's a good game that gives you a lot of control but also makes it clear when your build is starting to taper off. Regearing is absolutely doable and you have a lot of control over the loot filter.

Absolutely worth your time. Do yourself a favor and give it a go!

Great single player retro-style ARPG! It's a throwback to Titan Quest or Diablo II. Buy it, play it enjoy it no worries about seasons or FOMO Live service stuff just play it and enjoy it!

I've completed my whirlwind build and there is no content left so here are my thoughts:

Not really an ARPG at its current state(0.9.3): Scripted linear drops. Completed my build at the very end of the game. Still haven't got the relevant legendaries tho. Overall most of the content feels like its there for the sake of prolonging playtime, it felt like doing chores. Not rewarding at all.

I got the game several years ago and then took a long break. I loved it back then, and I still love it now. I sincerely hope that the devs will keep adding content to this game for years to come.

The new endgame looks exciting, it is more a game about finding a weapon then designing a build around that weapon, tailoring your gear, etc etc, then executing. Once your build is dialed in, at least in EA, there isn't a lot to play for--except stashing silly amounts of gold and other resources to roll a new build! It's distilled ARPG goodness.

The grind can get a bit much in the late game, but I love the variety in builds. With every new character, I end up focusing on a different playstyle, heavily influenced by the main weapons I find along the way. That randomness really adds spice to each playthrough.

Worth it! Singleplayer but very addictive and fun! Amount of farmable items and combinations are insane!

Good

Pixeled Diablo I
Gamepad supported but not convenient to play

This game deserve more visibility.

Really good, also practically made for the Steam Deck! Combat feels very responsive and rewarding, accompanied with great SFX, decent story and great art overall. Hits that PoE / LE / Diablo itch very well!

Some ramblings regarding the endgame:

While I really like the multi-tiered crafting that is balanced on scarcity of available crafting materials and drop-only affixes, I think the drop-only affixes are ultimately not interesting enough to carry the endgame and crafting. After you hit W8+, you're mindlessly grinding for either equipment you don't need, or crafting materials you have an abundance of. Getting your build up and running with full perfect affixes is a fun idea, but the droprate of these affixes is just not enough to incentivise grinding up your toon's equipment given the somewhat inconsequential payoff. Same issue as with last epoch in my opinion, the first 20-30h are great, and then you hit a plateau, after which all increases are numerical. And that is not interesting in my opinion.

But even if the endgame with all its system could be even better, this is already an exceptional arpg!

A lot of good ideas, well executed and implemented !! But way too grindy for a solo, offline, pixel indie game.
i came to try the game for a shorter experience, a break from the big dog, for a fast and fun experience in between league. if im in the mood for that kind of grind, im sorry but better options are available.

Now to be fair, im kind of a veterant in arpg, i would totaly see Slormancer as a point of entry for newbie or younger player, or maybe when you're on the move like holiday/steamdeck.
Once again not a bad game, but the flow, the rhythm need to be recalibrated to make it more enjoyable within the limited and repetitive activities provided in : The Slormancer !

Super addictive. Loads of build customization. So much potential, but inherently flawed. It took some of what made D4 bad to an extreme. Still worth picking up. I only criticize because I want it to be better.


D4 Issue 1- 100% Free respec = no rerolling = no replayability (changing builds at end game IS NOT FUN). Growth and progression is fun, changing some settings to own in a different way on the same character that you know can already own with a different setting just feels... like a UI simulator. Either:
- you make something stronger, and your old build feels like it was a waste of your time, but you lack connection to the new hotness
- you make something weaker, and it feels bad so you switch back
- you make something that feels about the same, and it feels hollow

D4 Issue 2- Being able to craft PERFECT items relatively easily means it's equally as easy to "beat the game" and be done... what's left to chase? +Torment level 9999? Nobody cares... that's lazy numeric nonsense

D4 Issue 3- Having to find Slorm Reapers (up to 3 times!!) means you can't even fathom the concept of your build until you've found it... I'm lvl 80 and still haven't found them all. At first it's exciting picking these up, but rerolling at max level to an entirely different build? Who does that... see free respec point #1. Rerolling with a new slormreaper + build concept is infinitely better. The one saving grace here is you have 3 archetypes "per game", so if you collect everything and load up on essence with your first archetype playthrough, you get 2 more playthroughs with everything "unlocked" and the creativity can actually flow from start to finish (exactly twice, on OTHER archetypes, then you're done).


The "fun" in ARPGs like this is in creating something from scratch that's awesome, building it up and having it beat the most challenging content. Do that a few times til it gets repetetive, then theorycraft a new build with the loot you've collected to do it all again from lvl 1 as a twink, only this time it'll be even more epic in the end game!

Seriously a hidden gem of a game. can see easily 50-150 hours of game play

The Slormancer reminds me a bit of Stardew Valley which I like a lot, only that there is much more monster killing involved. The game is pretty straight-forward, the progress manageable, build variety and gear crafting quite easy to understand. I will sink some hours into it for sure.

This game is a great game to just farm some items and level up classes while watching YouTube or something. Very good build diversity and fun classes to play.

Solid game, the skills feel great and there are plenty of interesting systems. Looking forward to discovering more builds!

This game sits comfortably between Torchlight II and Grim Dawn when it comes to an arpg experience that finds a direct line to the dopamine receptors in my brain.

I will be honest, I dont know what the actual story is for any of these games, so Im evaluating them based on whatever a game is when you take that part away. (still a game... but ... with.. no ... stor.. you get it, I get it, wtf am i doing here)

here are some random thoughts on stuff I havent seen mentioned in the 2 reviews i glanced at :

The animations are clean enough to not discombobulate you with sensory overload and the controls are what you'd expect for an arpg on pc (Controller support is more than adequate using an xbox one controller).

Your build is based around your main weapon or slormancer, of which there are a butt ton or so to collect for each of the 3 characters, each one imbueing your build with unique traits, some of them designed, it seems, to be used with more intentionally crafted loadouts than others.

There is a wardrobe system, allowing for quickly swapping between loadouts, and all of your experience points, more or less, can be respecced at will with no penalty. (this may be a pre 1.0 thing, not sure)

the design language or UX/UI is clean and charming and the way the mage runs does something funny to me.

haven't played this game in quite a while but saw it pop up in my feed. It's really good. That's the review.

It's all the fun of an ARPG without the painfully long grind. 2 hours in and I'm already seeing massive changes to my build, power spikes, and the best part is that the game does away with the unnecessary complexities and insane quest logs to keep track of. It's simple, talk to an NPC in town, go run a dungeon. It fills a weird niche that I've been craving for a while.

*EDIT*
Finished the main quest which takes about 7 hours in the current state, after which the endgame starts. It very much has a typical ARPG circular dependency grind. Get Elder Slorm, Spend Elder Slorm To Get Pure Slorm, Use Pure Slorm To Upgrade Elder Slorm Capacity, Spend More Elder Slorm To Run More Difficult End Game Dungeons For Better Loot. Fantastic for getting the grind cravings out of your system without spending 100 hours just to get to endgame.

Sweet single player ARPG with enough depth and build variety to sink a lot of time into. Gear crafting is straightforward and requires no PHD level skills.

mindless fun

Reasons to buy The Slormancer:
You like ARPGs and grinding for loot.
QoL built in that you don't have to beg the devs for for months or years after release.
Single player with no live service gimmicks to goad you into playing.
Variety of ways to build your character
Multiple end game modes already in game with more coming with full release.
Regular updates from Devs during the EA process.

Reasons not to buy The Slormancer:
You hate fun games.

The game starts slow cause you're pretty weak but once you start leveling and crafting it feels really nice to play. My only big gripe is with the controller settings because it's kind of annoying not being able to search in the ancestral skill page. Or it's hard to hover over certain things.

For example, there's no clear way to check(or maybe I missed it), what effects you're under when in combat. On steam deck at least I can use the screen to click on them but it's inconvenient and I end up firing skills instead. Or the most annoying is there's no way for me to assign the last ancestral skill on controller, so I end up being locked out and can only use 3 ancestral skills in combat or have to sacrifice one button in order to use all four.

Or, why am I able to upgrade skills in the ancestral skill page with controller buttons X and Y but can't do the same with my class skills and need to do so manually with the joystick?

I really like the game but I hope these pain points are resolved in 1.0 release.

Silly humor, fun to test out different builds. 10/10 would drink protein shake.

in the worked meeting straight up mancing it. and by "it" haha well, let's justr say, my slorm

this game has the potential to be one of the best arpg if they do enough updates

It's like the developers compiled a list of every quality-of-life and character progression feature ever requested by everyone who's played a dungeon-crawling action RPG and faithfully executed them into this delightful experience.

Highlighting loot, character respecs, tight controls, swapping classes, innumerable skills combinations, myriad reapers with different effects. I can see myself playing this game for a long time.

I am looking forward to the full release of this game.

Some minor feedback for the developers that I'm sure they're already aware of but would just like to highlight: I think certain aspects of the user interface could be better tutorialized for brand new players, I found it a bit tricky to get a grip on where my goldus count was. It also took an hour or two of playing to understand that my slorm wasn't the same thing as regular experience for progressing character level. As well, I do wish the stash were unlocked a bit sooner.

Since the developers appear to take QOL so seriously: It would be great to be able to save loadouts, given the high volume of different build possibilities. In addition, if there is a way to easily drop gear other than clicking and dragging to the trashcan icon, I haven't figured it out.

Love this game! Hoping the endgame is as fun as the story progression.

It doesn't have exp penalty

Probably the best single player arpg on steam.
Great pixel art, tons of loot with very interesting and build defining effects, a great crafting system and multiple endgame modes you can play for a _very_ long time.

Hidden gem of a game. Controls feels nice, art is clean and music surprisingly good. This deserve way more attention

The story of this game through Early Access has always been one of "they're so close. They just need and it would be amazing." Then I try this game again some time later... and those features are in it.

I did not like this game before. I didn't like how the crafting went, and how the reaper weapons worked. I didn't like how itemizing for builds worked out, and how much of a grind this game was for no real reason.

It's February 2025 and I started a new file in this game for no real reason and hot damn. EVERYTHING is better. Everything makes sense, the pacing is incredible. Reapers drop left and right, I get the crafting reagents steadily. I can craft an item that's pretty good statwise, but is just a temporary item as I work towards crafting Best In Slot style items. I have a good chunk of legendaries.

The legendary collection stash page. The improved access to +xp and seemingly reduced xp requirements. The skills and pacing. This game is fantastic now. It's more Action-y for ARPG's, but I'm slinging Void Arrows around and blowing up the screen to a spectacular light show and it's great.

So far this current patch has completely redeemed this game to me, and it's now on track to be on par with Chronicon.

Definitely recommend this game if you like ARPG's that aren't hot steaming piles of garbage game design.

Played it at release of early access, and it really didn't grab me. Coming back to it now, it's quite fun! Looking forward to seeing the final release, this looks like an incredibly promising ARPG!

slow start, but fun once you get your health/mana regen sorted

Slormite Studios have done a great job in the early access phase!!
I wish you the best for the 1.0 release!!

Better than POE2 ngl

This is one of the most promising Arpgs i have played in a while, The combat is smooth, The slorm reapers Invoke a sense of oooh can i build around that ? The legendaries are currently mid but hope for the next patch, The endgame is alright. But most of all its still better than d4!