The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

The (modern) Binding of Isaac is one of (if not) the most addicting game I have EVER played.

TBOI is a learning curve. Getting to that first mom kill will take you a TON of time if you're just beginning, but once you overcome that obstacle, each run will leave you wanting to start another run right after. Whether it's for a new character, an item, a trinket, a pickup, an alt stage, etc., it is something to look forward to in any of your future runs. It promotes trying out different things while making the following experiences more fun. Don't find a route/character appealing? Go unlock stuff!

With how much time you'll be spending in this underground, you're bound to meet all the enemies and bosses this game has to offer. The cast is wide enough that encounters don't get tiring, and tight-knit enough that their attack behavior will be memorized by heart. Some of the newer additions from Repentance are.. a bit dubious.. in my opinion, but the notion remains largely the same. Want to spice things up even more? TBOI has a HUGE modding community that extends to just about all features of the game, including all the ones I have talked about!

So if you have the funds to buy The Binding of Isaac, and you're into the roguelike genre, give it a shot! Boot up the game for your first time! (or your 400th time..) and witness the story of Isaac and his mother, who lived alone in a small house on a hill.

for the price of the game and what it is it is packed to the brim with content. there is genuinely so much to do and accomplish the replayability never ends. So many different ways you can go with your runs, the more you play the more you learn what goes with what different strategies and overall combat. the lore is great and the obscene amount of items is really nice especially when you get a quality 4 items mid run. amazing game is a must have for roguelite enjoyers.

I hate this game. Or, wait, do I love it?

...Yeah, I hate it. 10/10.

On a real note, buy the game to see if you'll like it, and if you even slightly enjoy it, buy ALL the DLCs. It is SO good as long as you have the DLCs. The 50 bucks will quickly show how worth it the purchase was.

In all honesty, as a Dead God player, I have had alot of fun with this game during the hours I have spent on it, a difficult, yet at the same time not game, best part of it all is sheer customizability of each and every singular part of your run, as each will look different, from the characters you choose, to your pickups, your enemies, items you pick up or how you break the game, you cannot TRULY get bored of the experience

Simply a daunting amount of content, the grind is incredibly satisfying when you start to unlock things. Notably: It lives!, The polaroid, the negative, New Area (the void), A secret exit, and A Strange Door.

-{Difficulty}-
­☐ I could do it blind
☐ Easy but not too easy
☑ Offers balance between easy and hard
­☐ It can feel rather difficult at times
­☐ Souls game

-{Gameplay}-
­☐ The game is as smooth as butter
☑ It feels good to play, no clunky controls or offers full keybinding mapping
☐ It's alright
☐ It could do better, but also could do worse
☐ It's horrendous

-{Performance}-
☐ Runs better than Doom
☐ The game is well optimised
☐ There are no crippling stutters or settings you cannot change
☑ There are moments and points where you will feel laggy gameplay
☐ Call NASA for a spare computer

-{Story}-
☐ You will cry every time you play
☑ It's an emotional journey
☐ It's balanced between gameplay and story elements that work in harmony
☐ The story has some rough points or conflicts that make no sense
☐ You might as well speedrun every second

-{Visuals}-
☐ Fabulous!
☑ It looks very sharp and has clever artwork usage
☐ The game is visually good, but doesn't stand out compared to your average game
☐ It has jagged edges and plenty of visual artifacts
☐ Windows Vista looks better

-{Frustration points}-
☐ The game is the definition of zen
☐ I could play this game for a long period of time without feeling burnt out
☑ It's your average experience. You win some, you lose some
☐ You will curse a few times and fail plenty of times before you'll get what you should do
☐ It feels worse than burning alive at certain points

-{Achievements}-
☐ Offers none, get KEKW'd
☐ It has a few but none require any skill or real involvements
☐ The game has a few cute achievements that you need to hunt for a little while
☐ You need to grind the game several times over in all the modes, but it's not overbearing
☑ You might as well burn 20 years from your lifetime, it's gonna take an eternity

-{Summary}-
I like this game! It's not my first or last pick to play, but I'd never get bored of it. Give it a go if you want! This review is based on my opinions and everyone is free to have their own! Keep this in mind

Little boys in big game,
Or
Little game for Big boys...

Choose wiseley homosexual korean dude from big city with youtube channel...

Hard to play without reading guides and looking up all the items (there are a lot of them).

Love it, its awesome to jump back in anytime and play again and again.

Isaac has been in my life for the past 10 years hermano. i began in wrath of the lamb where i quickly fell in love with the sacrilegious aesthetic and game play, the way Isaac slowly morphs into a strange being with every item you pick up. you'll have endless fun discovering every synergy, every little secret and mechanics. This game does not hold your hand at all. literally there is no tutorial and if you raw dog this game without the wiki or mods you'll probably take years to figure everything out. yes.Years. family members will have weddings, children, those children will have children, and you will still be playing this god forsaking game con Los cocos toos reventaos.
RNG is the core of the genre but no other game has achieved the same satisfaction that isaac has ever given. this is also where you will contemplate life, years will go by and you wont even have platinum god unlocked. before you get a win streak of 2, you'll suffer through a -99 win streak, yup, its horrible. As Isaac fires his tears your own tears will slowly fall on your keyboard, asking yourself why you suffer everyday trying to enjoy this game, you'll say its fun, just to have 20 horrible runs back to back and rage quit to take a breather. Isaac culiao will be your best friend and your worst nightmare. the addiction will slowly set in as you have 1 good run after another. hungry for the next brimstone run that wont show up for a whole week, but you'll still try to get it. eventually you will be like the rest of us, hating this game to the core, cursing its name every time you talk about games with your panas but coming back to it again and again like a religious junkie looking for sacred heart.
Youll love this game. Just dont take the losses personally, or the nerfs, or the unfairness.

Maldigo el dia que te conoci isaac chuchetumare
Juego kl penca

What to say about Issac...

This has to be the only game I bought on every device I own. I bought it for Xbox, Playstation and switch.... I have so many more hours on this game than shows and its honestly one of them games that is quite like a good beer, its very Moorish.

You wont run out of fun play throughs its an incredibily challenging game and the infinate number of builds you can do makes it honestly one of the best valued games out there.

If you have not played this game. Get it now, don't waste anymore time in your life without playing.

As a proud owner of a keyboard, I find great fun in games that use WASD and arrow keys at the same time, I have played for over 50 hours, lost hundred of runs and its still great, please buy this game and try it, it deserves your attention.

btw please dont step on the shiny metal spikes on the floor

Ts as religious as Evangelion - it kinda has something to do with religion but it's hard to point what. And also it's great. Heck yeah.

After all these hours, I have played, I highly recommend that game if you like roguelikes with poop.

:') Great game! Somewhat difficult, but very addictive. :')

A perfect roguelike with a large variety of options(?) - every run is unique! I recommend continuing even if it looks bad at first; the run will improve after a few floors. Even if it doesn't, you'll discover that the smallest combo with low-tier items can lead to a win, and the victory will taste even better when you achieve it through your own skill solution. Even a loss provides valuable knowledge about synergies, enemy patterns, etc.
It's a great game that can and will be frustrating, but the desire to play it persists and even increases. Because DeadGod is waiting.
However, the coop mode is abysmal dogshit with unplayable latency, but it's still in beta, so I hope it will improve.

Игра если вы хотите потеряться по жизни.

После 1000+ не только на лицухе, но и пиратке я понял что в эту игру можно играть... вечно.
Обычно другие рогалики не могут похвастаться таким же уровнем рейграбельности, чаще там просто случайное выпадение предметов, генерации локаций, иногда боссы разные будут (но во многих проектах чаще всего фиксированные боссы), сами предметы редко являются гейм ченджерами (или как это называется). Но вот в Айзеке ты как игрок мало что контролируешь. Ситуации сгенерироваться могут самые разные, ибо ты никогда не знаешь в какую именно локацию попадешь (но сказать по правде они друг от друга мало чем отличаются, плюс можно свернуть на альт-этажи), какого босса ты будешь бить в комнате босса, и что делают предметы - никто не расскажет.

Первые 100+ часов как по мне это исследование. Понимание что делает какой айтем, расходник, автомат/попрашайка и т.д., узнавать о синергиях (от очевидных, искуственно сделанных, либо когда один предмет дополняет другие. Изредка сломанные сочитания предметов), исследования всяких хитростей. Но всё это учить как стишок не придется. Само запомниться.

По большей части игра про "думать" даже больше чем стрелять. Всегда можно сделать небольшой расчёт и срезать убытки, от мало до велика. Почти всегда можно схитрить, и умелый игрок умеет эту игру наёбывать и так и сяк, получая максимальную выгоду


Тем более на данный момент игру патчат и допиливают. Без длс брать не советую. Лучше сразу купить всё и наслаждаться, но опыт говорит что не всем заходит сама эстетика многим не нравится и вызывает какое-то отвращение от изабильного колличество говна в перемешку с кишками, уродливыми образами и т.д. но как по мне всё это из-за простого мультяшного стиля не так уже и мерзко.

i played this game a lot on pirated and finally got it on steam, cain and eve best

RNG in this game is so bad. game gives you like bean items from treasure room. health ups from boss room. If you are unlucky enough you cant get keys for 2-3 stages and cant open them. everything is luck based in this game of course if you play good you can beat most runs. tier 0 items are totally useless and most of the tier 1 items too. combos in this game gets boring after you test all of it . you see brimstone you win the game. you take mom's knife you win the game. every game you say like please god give me brimstone or mom's knife. dont give me tier 0 items . give me sacred heart give me godhead(opening this item is such a pain too). It gets repetitive and boring. most of the powerful items are unlocked late game. I do not recommend this game if you hate pure RNG.

A very nice rougelike.
Isaac is a known game , it has simplistic rooms and artstyle but it doesn't make it repetetive imo. There's plenty of pickups and diffrent items or characters with their unique abilities to play around with. There's not rlly much to say about isaac since it's a simple game but it has allot of options and items , even without dlc's.

8/10!

With 500 hours of this game on my Switch, i love this game, i love everything Edmund puts out honestly. But this is one of my many games that i encourage people to play.
No matter their skill, because despite how hard someone thinks this game is there are chances to learn and dive farther into their runs day by day.
It's been interesting playing a fresh, new save file, its a bit daunting to not have all the unlocks from my Switch save >_<. It makes me think about my decisions and appreciate buffed "bad" items more (like camo undies! holy moly)
always will be a 10/10 game.

does anybody remember the 3ds version of TBOI btw??

This is a great game to play in your free time, but it can also keep you busy for hours.
It has loads of items that are different every time you run it, which means the game never gets boring.

Unironically a peak game to discover as a child actively going through trauma (and a great game to play as an adult too).

The way it explores sensitive themes in such a goofy and morbid way is commendable, plus it's super fun (and chaotic), borderline endless, and really easy to pick up, with a dizzying amount of nuance to learn about if you're interested.

eyesac good.

It used to be a very good game, but with DLCs its formula just broke.

It is not explicitely explained what anything does, you need to experiment. In the original game, it worked just fine. Most items had very obvious effects, so you pick it, learn what it does, and in consequent playthroughs you pick or not it based on this knowledge. But now there are 2 problems. A lot of things aded with DLCs have extremely obscure effects, and there are so many items that even if you learn what it does, you may not see it in hundreds of hours again. As a result, you have pretty much no idea what anything does even after playing for a long time.

Item synergies is an essential gameplay part. In the original, many items were transformative to your gameplay, and stacked with each others. You could get your tears replaced with a missile strike which spawns cluster bombs which blast death rays all around that leave damaging puddles. But most new items either have non-tear effects ot are basically stat changers. So you don't feel that transformation anymore. Also, there were a lot of set items, and with smaller pool, you had a fair chance to get the set for a powerful bonus. Now you may never know that set is even a thing, because bloated item pool makes it very unlikely to get it.

As a bonus, the difficulty kept being cranked up. It gave old players challenge mathing their skill, but as a new (or returning after a long time) it will likely be way too hard, even on normal. Poor attack telegraphing, overcrowded rooms, special stuff like champion monsters stacking unfavorably and breaking otherwise balanced rooms...

If you want to play this game - do NOT buy DLCs. They will make the game much, much worse.

Very cool game
very hard
a lot of stuff you can do
i would recommend you go at your pace
and if you want more binding of isaac
BUY THE DLC!!!
hell GET ALL OF IT
ITS SO PEAK!

Jacob and Esau make me want to kill myself.

As soon as I finally unlocked them and tried them for the first time, this game transformed from a game I loved, a game I enjoyed — even when it was difficult, even when it was frustrating — to game that I profoundly, sincerely resent myself for having purchased. I want to fucking die every time I even consider coming back to this game. I want to fucking kill myself.

There are so many other, great games that are always consistently enjoyable — even when they are difficult, even when they are frustrating — that I can no longer in good conscience recommend this one.

This game is the leading cause to several low marks on important assignments, kinda kickass if you ask me

Thank you Edmund McMillen for blessing me with this absolute gem of a game
Actual peak gaming
Everything about this game is good - especially the DLCs and the modding aspect
If I listed everything I like I'd be here all day
It's just so good, play it if you can spare some change (the game is way better with all of the DLCs so you may need to save up a little bit but worth every penny)
Can't wait for Mewgenics :D

The best game ive ever played
The amount of variety, the skill the LUCK, the story the DRAMA. Its perfection

Прикольно, за 9 часов первой игры научился различать хороших персонажей от Калловых, но калл не простой а золотой (ещë радужный есть)

Over 1k hours on pc and about 200hrs on my switch great go to game for random fun and always different never have the same run twice great time killer

hell nahh bought afterbirth and afterbirth+ the game did not work 21 bucks down the drain horrable and really underbaked game i would not buy it if i could refund the base game i would

PSA: This game is unfair and will make you question why you spent hours on a single run just to die to spikes and get nothing for it. (Skill issue tbf.)

Played it when it was a Flash game, 100%'d it on Switch, now back at it on Steam.

10/10. This game sucks. I love it.

Man I´m not this type of player... like, I normally don´t like gore-y things, or this type of aesthetics. I´m not a cozy player either, I´m more fantasy/sci-fi/slice of life kinda thing, I like horror games and such but... this actually borders in a type of dmency I normally don´t seek out willingly. HOWEVER, the game is SOO GOOD, it was purchased by a friend of mine and left it there, one day I decided to play it and it´s frickingly addictive and the genral innuendos or the straight out told things left me in awe. I deffinetely recommend this game if you like rougue type games, it´s a bit more random than others and playing at this point the number of items are overwhelming, but with a good guide you´ll get the hang of it pretty fast.

I have no idea what is going on in this game it might look disgusting but it is so fun with hundred of hours worth of content

This is the only game I own that consistently undoes progress or just deletes my save files.

Amazing Game, Recommended if you want bullet hell , luck based , grinder game

---{ Graphics }---

☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Dont look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS


---{ Gameplay }---

☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't


---{ Audio }---

☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf


---{ Audience }---

☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma


---{ PC Requirements }---

☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer


---{ Game Size }---

☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data


---{ Difficulty }---

☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls


---{ Grind }---

☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☑ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding


---{ Story }---

☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life


---{ Game Time }---

☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond


---{ Price }---

☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money


---{ Bugs }---

☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs


---{ ?/10 }---

☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☑ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10

makes me feel like im back in Newgrounds when the site was still alive and popular. a beautifully shitty game, its great. go play it.

So this Game Was Perfect. But for some reason the devs thought it would be silly funny to start nerfing items.
The best part of the game is getting lucky and having fun breaks and fun broken synergies which were rare. But when they did happen it was a dopamine dump. And with the most recent update they just nerfed a bunch of shit

its a good game but it might be a little boring at the begging for some people trust the stranger (me) its worth it and its better than overwatch since its getting updated everynow and then if you have question i might be a bit of help :p

It's really fun, maybe even *too* fun. I'm afraid I'll end up putting 500 hours into this game..

Isaac is toooooooooo strong,so they have to weaken the items in each update to make sure your bad experience.
It is unbelievable that a single-player game can constantly undermine the gaming experience of players. (In fact, there is an online mode now, but too many bugs, lag and error crashes make me think that online cannot be regarded as a complete mode)
It must be that the sales of the anniversary celebration event some time ago were so high that the development team now wants most people to get refunds.

I been playing this game recently and for being new to the rougelike and indie game and controller supported game, i REALLY recommend this game for beginner, its a beginer friendly game in my opinion and is easy to learn.
+ with the new updates that allow coop for 2-4 players, it is really great to play with friends and family, you can also play online with random stranger and a fun way to begin the journey for more rougelike like tboi (The binding of Isaac).
SO my personal humble opinion i recommend this game especially if youre new to this type of game. Have fun and enjoy.

I got 1001% and I don't even like this game.
I'm glad I never bought Repentance because that would be another 300 hours of my life vaporized; and the sickening part is that I would be happy about it.

Amazing game, your ass will burn right after you die in a mom boss room when you had a hard run :)

This was my first steam purchase over 10 years ago and I still play this game to this day. It is one of the best rogue-lites ever developed and made even better by the constant support from the dev team. My heart still races when I encounter some of the final bosses as they've done a great job with balancing the game over the years. 11/10. Get rid of spiked chests tho.

Amazing game can be frustrating with so much luck involved and if you just have bad luck as a person but its so rewarding when you do have a great run and unlock that next section

@NotAlbino you little maggot, you made me buy this game with your gamebreaking rigs. It's f**king unfair-hard game, i will become back my money, i hope you will in your next time a dog (with dementia) on the chocolate farm you maggot

The binding of isaac is one of those games that I had known about for ages. By the time I picked it up, I knew what to expect. Except it turned out I didn't. At first everything felt just like any other roguelite, a pool of items, some special things nice, but nothing new.

Then devil/angel deals started appearing.

then i thought i beat the game.

Then i found out i was only 1/_0 done with the game.

Then i found out that not only where there post mother bosses, but there where a__n_t_ _nd___s

Then i found out that...... i could go on like this for a long time, because i found out enough for the game to last me almost 200 hours. Thats without going for extra achievements (albeit i still went for challenges).

Thats while using the wiki to plan routes and strategies.

And even after all that, I still managed to get blown away when because after 180 hours, d___p___ made the game feel completely different.

+Isaac is a cheap game for what your getting, even at 60$ its really cheap. This thing is MASSIVE.

+Isaac has an incredible story

+many items completely change the game, and there are limitless combinations to use.

+the art is really neat, i love the pixel art, and some of the bosses just blew my mind away, again you can get to late game, and you will be absolutely shocked by what awaits you if you get the full version.

-my only issue was how confusing it was to do the story, without the wiki I wouldve gotten lost really fast.

In general I recommend isaac, there is no reason to avoid getting this game. All around its a stunning piece of work, and deserves massive praise.