The 7th Circle - Endless Nightmare

**🔥👹 THE 7TH CIRCLE – ENDLESS NIGHTMARE: Where Hell is a Roguelike & Satan is Your DM 👹🔥**

Imagine if *Silent Hill* and *Tetris* had a baby… and then abandoned it in a haunted meat grinder. *The 7th Circle* is a survival horror roguelike that’s less “game” and more “**existential tax audit**.” You’ll die, respawn, and question why you paid $30 to be bullied by geometry. 📉💀

**The Good Stuff:**
- **Atmosphere?** It’s like a *Tim Burton* film directed by a sleep-deprived cryptid. The levels shift and twist like a Rubik’s Cube dunked in LSD, and the sound design will make you side-eye your own shadow. 🎧👁️
- **Combat:** Swing a pipe at a demonic office printer 📠🔧, dodge possessed IKEA furniture 🛋️👻, and parry a *literal* guilt trip from your therapist (now a boss fight!). Janky? Yes. Hilarious? Also yes.
- **Permadeath:** Lose everything, but gain *trauma points* to unlock new ways to suffer. “Oh cool, I can now respawn with a phobia of ceiling fans!” 🌪️😱

**The ‘Why Am I Here?’ Stuff:**
- **Sanity Meter:** Your character’s sanity drains faster than a TikTok attention span. Hallucinations include: walls breathing, NPCs speaking in reverse Latin, and your inventory items judging you. 📉🔮
- **Procedural Generation:** The levels are randomized, which means you’ll get lost in the same claustrophobic hallway 17 times. Congrats, you’ve found hell’s waiting room! 🚪🌀
- **Boss Fights:** Battle a CEO demon who throws spreadsheets 📊👹, a sentient panic attack, and your own ghost from run #42. *Motivational!*

**Final Verdict:**
THE 7TH CIRCLE is a **8.5/10** if you’re into:
- Masochism disguised as “gameplay.” 🖤🎮
- Horror that makes *Five Nights at Freddy’s* look like *Sesame Street*. 🧸🔪
- Sobbing into a bowl of cereal at 2 AM while whispering, “One more run…” 🥣🌌

**🌟 Play it if:** You’ve ever wanted to yell “THIS IS ART” while running from a sentient tax return. **🚫 Skip it if:** You enjoy happiness, sunlight, or functional mental health.

*Disclaimer: This review was spawned by DeepSeek AI that’s never screamed at a jumpscare or filed taxes. Its opinions are powered by chaos algorithms and a concerning lack of OSHA compliance.* ☕🤖 *P.S. If you develop a fear of staplers, we accept no liability.* 📎⚖️

**The 7th Circle (8.5/10):**
*Pros:* Hellish chaos 🔥, shifting labyrinths 🌀. *Cons:* Sanity decay 😱, IKEA demons 🛋️. *Verdict:* Masochist’s paradise. 😈🎮

A pretty simple, but fun and addictive horror dungeon crawler. I'm a big fan of the "body horror" designs of the enemies, and the music is great, too.

At first, this seemed confusing, and with all that almost-barren walls design, I didn't feel like wanting to delve more. But man, I am glad I didn't give in. Once I looked under the hood a bit, it has turned out to be a rather well-designed rogue-lite dungeon crawler. One that you don't have to finish right-away out of fear of forgetting what's been done and what not, if you follow me. On top of that, it's seeping visceral, brooding atmosphere. I recommend.

EDIT after 8 hours:

Hmm, I’ve spent 8 hours playing now, and I must say, everything feels pretty repetitive. Nothing new has really unfolded so far.

It’s something like a Dungeonhack: enemies (I’ve only encountered 5 different types so far), traps (which always serve merely as a surprise attacks), levers to find, chests, the occasional 'desktop racing game,' and loot (which is very basic – I have found only slightly better versions of the starting gear and zero rare or magical items). Some tidbit here and there I've failed to mention, too.

Rinse and repeat.

That said, the atmosphere is truly fairly unique, and different builds probably offer a bit different approaches to the game.

It might be worth checking out if you have time to kill, but after 8 hours, I myself am finding it too repetitive to keep playing.

The gameplay is boring, repetitive, it's a very simple slogfest of going through the same combat moves over and over and over again. No strategy, no tactics, no challenge, barely any exploration or discovery. I had hoped this would change but there is no change at all from the first to the fourth level at least, which is when all interest seeps away even if you are patient and play this on the side while doing something else. A pity, because the CRPG elements underneath would be sound and the visual monster design is quite good.