Death's Door

The idea of the game seems cool, but after playing it I wouldn't recommend it to myself and therefore I wont recommend this one to others. If you are interested I would wait for a discount.

great game, very polished and fun. expect lots of combat and collecting things

fun, cute and entertaining, all the things you want in a cozy game, yet still challenging

Great game! Especially for someone who wants a fun and not frustrating gaming experience. Plus cute characters and a great soundtrack!

I got this game in a bundle with Tunic for like a dollar and it was an awesome purchase. Just a simple game that reminds of the style of older Legend of Zelda games. A great time I would highly recommend.

What an amazing game.
+ Tight controls, satisfying combat.
+ Timeless graphics
+ Music that sticks with you for days
+ Wholesome story

Absolute beauty of a game that feels a lot like the art/swordplay of Tunic.

Solid Indie-soulslike with a charming art style. My only complaints are that the game felt somewhat "empty" at times with lots of running around and little to do and the "puzzles" hardly forcing you to think. Get it at a discount and you got yourself a fun weekend.

Very fun designs and world. Very satisfying combat. And as someone who likes crows, the perfect MC

A fun blend of Dark soul verticality, Zelda exploration, and hollow knight combat.

The combat is punishing, the game is not.
That is the essence of why i loved this game so much.

Fights establish a steady rhythm so that combat feels insanely smooth when you get it right - and there is quite the incentive to do so. If you mindlessly spam attack you definitely won’t be dashing out of harms way in time and getting hit results in you laying on the ground for quite a bit before being able to get up again. The combat definitely encourages you to be patient, consistent and quick on your feet and can be very punishing if you get greedy or lose focus …

… but the consequences to dying are almost always exclusively limited to a lost fight. Your respawn-points are within a very reasonable distance of the fights plus you keep all the collectibles and XP that you picked up since last saving the game. That is such a small detail but it made a world of difference to me. It felt like the developers genuinely cared about my experience and wanted me to have fun !!!! (i recently played Rain World). The world and story are rich with content but pleasantly condensed and it’s actually so nice and refreshing not having to do 5000 irrelevant sidequests (i recently played Cross Code) . Mostly useful collectibles and accessible hints on where to find the ones you haven’t picked up yet also played a part in making the game a very enjoyable experience all around.

The game was able to grab me completely with its polished combat, amazing soundtrack, colourful characters and stunning environments. After having played a few games back to back that i sadly did not enjoy too much, Death’s Door was the breath of fresh air that i needed. A game that is challenging, can be frustrating but never is annoying. That excels at telling its simple story well.

Note: I played the entire game with an umbrella that does x0.5 damage instead of a sword (for the achievement) so i have not experienced the game on the intended ‘difficulty setting’ but it worked really well for me.

truly one of the best games i have ever played, beautiful story and absolutely amazing characters i wish i could play this for the first time again. chefs kiss in every way

I had a great time with Death's Door! I did encounter a number of frustrating bugs, performance issues, and other irritations, but it's still an easy recommend to anyone interested.

Pros:
* Fun combat.
* Great music (Ceramic Manor theme is so darned good). The section where they synced up the pistons to the beat was incredible!
* The forest spirits are the cutest
* I thought hunting for collectibles was a lot of fun in this game. The difficulty was such that you don't need a guide unless you get impatient and I liked knowing exactly how much of everything I still needed to find.
* Great lighting and reflections. This is really shown off in the nighttime section in the endgame.
* Some unexpected humor and lightheartedness for a game about reaping souls with conspicuous blood effects
* Engaging characters. Your playable character is the only exception.
* Decent story. It's not overly complex, but it doesn't have to be to tie the game together well.
* Fun endgame content.
* Lots of nice little details. For example, I love that the shiny things you collect are visible on the desk right from the main menu! It's also just wholesome playing a crow that likes shiny things <3

Cons:
* The setting to turn off the controller's vibration did not work, and worse still, it kept getting stuck on. My controller would be vibrating on the pause menu while the game wasn't even focused. It was super obnoxious.
* BIzarrely high GPU usage (~65-70%) and consistent, irritating stutter at 1080p/60 for an isometric game with low system requirements. Using minimum settings didn't mitigate the issue and neither did turning off vsync as suggested by the developers. Turning off vsync also cranks your GPU for no reason, so that isn't much of a workaround regardless. I have an RX 6600, which is ~5x faster than the minimum GPU (R7 260X) and ~75% faster than the recommended GPU (RX 580). Perhaps it runs really horribly on AMD hardware, as the RX 580 absolutely wipes the floor with the recommended Nvidia card (GTX 1050), but this sort of performance just isn't reasonable.
* No borderless windowed mode.
* Inconsistent boss design. For a couple of them, too much of the difficulty comes from the isometric perspective. Some endgame bosses also seemed balanced around a player who had taken a different upgrade path than I did.
* I thought it was cheesy that every single chest, all of which were story essential, was a mimic. It is not "avarice" for the reaper to take the only path offered. The player doesn't even need to open the chest for the mimic cut-scene to play, so it was a pretty "stop hitting yourself!" sort of "gotcha".
* The ground panels that require a ground pound to open took me several hours to figure out because they didn't work the first time; I can only assume I was too far off center. Making the landing area more forgiving on those would have been a good idea.
* If you press the dodge button while charging a spell, you should still dodge. Oftentimes (all of the time?) you won't.
* With the hook shot, you can't just hold down left trigger and continually hit B like you can with other spells. This caused me to walk off cliffs a bunch of times before I finally got over the muscle memory.
* Steam achievement progress is bugged for multiple achievements (e.g. Weapon Master, Reap What You Sow)
* When trying to use the dash strike with the greatsword, if my dash was just barely on cooldown, the game would lock me into an unskippable stationary heavy attack. Just about every time this happened against a boss I took a hit, and since the dash strike is by far the most effective attack in the game, I ran into this a lot.

The game is cute and decent. I like the characters, places, and everything. The final boss was a bit of a struggle and felt like overpower, but it could be me being bad at dodging. I found out there were more things to do after beating the game, so I met owls, and that's it - too lazy to search the whole world just for collect 50 seeds.

The game is very pretty, the story is nice, and the music is great. It's really good at teaching you things without having a ton of tutorial popups and the progression was fun to me. Definitely worth.

A very cute and touching game that feels like a mix of souls-like and metroidvania. Very enjoyable gameplay that's not really challenging, so you wouldn't have to get good to finish the game. The game really needs a map, backtracking is a pain. Also, the urn puzzle is fucking stupid, the game did not teach me to inspect shinies I find. Exhausted all options and it was the only thing I had to look up... Very frustrating. 8/10

Very fun game! I can't even get mad when I die. Visually appealing, love the graphics and the characters!! 😁🕹♥

Death's Door is an incredible experience that, in my opinion, flawlessly blends a healthy amount of both souls-like and puzzle gameplay. The manner in which the puzzles are presented to you is clever and satisfying, not too much or too little information but rather the perfect inbetween that keeps the satisfaction of solving the puzzles on your own. Combat can feel clunkly some times, but thanks to a variety of different weapons offered to you, you are given a good blend of both fast and slow paced options for both melee and range while still offering a slightly difficult challenge that gave me a great deal of satisfaction with every boss I killed. I would recommend this to just about anyone who likes the metroidvania, souls-like, or puzzle RPG generas. Great game!

Fun game, good music, not challenging to the point of rage but the last boss cause a small amount of frustration, overall hidden gem i recommend you try if you're already thinking of trying it

this game is art. The mixture of art style with chihiro (Ghibli) references, the atmospheric music that never gets old and is interestingly built in a mix of noises and piano and strings landscapes is so fantastic and intrueging. Gameplay is very cool and feels like a souls game in top down perspective. Its like your walking through complex dollhouses in other universes. The setting with the dull momo-like (MIchael Ende) office, contrasted by the inspired Level Design behind the doors is so weird, unsettling and fun at the same time. Its a magical world full of little Riddles that are a great change of pace besides the fighting. Leveldesign is sometimes straight forward and then sometimes if you didnt see little things you find yourselves searching what to do next. If you find it you're proud but sometimes it feels a little frustrating when its just a doorway you missed because its not a door, but a little cutout on the edge of the map. But most of the time its me missing stuff and running around. The skill system is very cool. You're character gets better by completing the basic movements more efficient or faster. It reminds me a littlle of nier:automata in a simplified form where you too have to decide which basic funktions you wanna use with your android.

All in all its a welcome escape from reality into a world where offices are something else and at the same time so familiar as we know it. Philosophically its quite intrueging. What is the difference between our offices... and the one in the little soulreapers tale?

Are we not only collecting souls too, to get escape from death and have power over...

Death's door?

Really fun game, decent combat, not to fast not to slow. Sometimes frustrating, but now overly hard. Very adorable and very very sad.

Love baby flowers.

Such a cute and pretty game!! It's also funny at times. Wasn't too challenging, I'd say just enough.

Pretty fun little game but the difficulty spikes towards the end just leave you feeling frustrated.
The music is stunning though, loved every moment of every track.

Such a great game. Highly recommend if you like top-down adventure games. It scratched the same itch as Hyper Light Drifter!

Very fun. Great story and artwork.

9/10
The game is fun and challenging. Death is punishing, especially when you can get lost easily in a multi-layer isometric map.
The fight is chaotic and unpredictable, but the difficulty is peculiar when the late game is a lot easier than the start.
It's a great game with an amazing twisted story and a lot of great characters!
Recommended!

Loved this game so much such a joy

BTW for anyone that thinks they got the one seed missing glitch sorry to say you actually have misses one so bite the bullet and go through the list again you will thank me later.

This game was pretty good I would rate it 6/10 due to combat being repetitive.

I completed this game and enjoyed what I played overall, but off the bat, I gotta say that my chances of 100%ing this game is extremely low. The why will be put in the section of negatives. Let's start with the positives

My first playthrough of this game was the umbrella run, where you pick up the umbrella at the very beginning of the game and never unequip it. In other words, you will be doing half melee damage the entire game. I never upgraded my HP or my mana, and I never upgraded my spells. This means that the game REALLY rewards exploration, because I didn't even know you could upgrade your spells. I thought it was only the damage in the hub world. Anyways, I inadvertedly conquered the entire game at base HP, base mana, and base spells. It's about as close to hard mode as you'll get. The game must be VERY easy. The trek to the bosses were much harder than the bosses themselves. You have only 2 ways to heal. Entering/exiting the hub world, or planting life seeds that you can find littered around the world. The treks were where all the fun in this game were had. I got a real sense of enjoyment of having 4HP and not knowing where the seed pots or the hub world doors are. Dealing half melee damage, I had to rely on magic and play very skillfully. And when you risk being set back like 10 minutes while dealing half damage, you git very gud really quickly

The combat is fun, the gauntlets FEEL like gauntlets due to the aforementioned restricted healing methods, the soundtrack is an absolute BANGER. Every song slapped (except those sang by that one girl). It feels like you're on a grand adventure. The story and themes are surprisingly deep

Now why won't I 100% this game............ THERE IS NO MAP SYSTEM. There are 50 life seeds, weapon upgrades, a bunch of "shiny things", and an achievement to 100% the game........ and there is no map system. I got lost so many times in this game as it is, and I have to BLINDLY scour it to find all these little chotchkes that do nothing, life seeds that heal but I have to plant them for the achievement, and then weapon upgrades after I've already beaten the game. The amount of time I put into "exploring" this game was me being absolutely freaking LOST

I'm not pulling up a Youtube guide to find every collectable in this game. There should've been some sort of indicator, map system, or even post final boss item that you can get to help you find it. That's really the only major complaint I have in this game.

Another negative: Bosses are VERY easy. Again, I played this without upgrading my HP or my Mana even once, without finding the upgrades to my spells, and while using the weakest weapon in the game. First boss I beat first try at half HP, second boss was done on my 2nd try, 3rd boss took 5 tries, and final boss only took nearly 10 tries because I was hitting like a pool noodle and rushing in my impatience. I wish the bosses were more challenging, though the final boss was passable I guess

Overall, I enjoyed the game and if it had a map system and an assist in terms of finding collectables, I would 100% it. This was a major failure in a nice, short, fun game. If you don't care for perfectionism or achievement hunting, give this a go. If you're big on that stuff (like I am), whip out that Youtube Guide because it's the only way you're finding everything without doubling the time it took you to beat it in the first place

This was such a hidden gem for me. Playing this was overall a fun experiance, I do enjoy soulslikes once in a while but this was a nice break from the stress such games can bring with them.
It definetly had some difficulty here and there but it didnt feel like the game was just punishing me unnessesarrily.
The puzzles were super fun and the worldbuilding was something i enjoyed a lot.

You will like this game if:
- You like skill-dependant and reaction-based combat
- You like exploration of hand-crafted game worlds (or you like metroidvanias in general)
- You like the art style (as seen on the screenshots)

You won't like this game if:
- You avoid isometric games at all costs
- You don't like fast-paced battles
- You loathe word puns

I'm just not sure if I want to finish this game anymore. I've played for 5 hours, just trying to like this game, but I just can't. The graphics and world are all beautiful; but the combat and gameplay just isn't fully there in my opinion. The combat feels somewhat repetitive; although you do unlock new weapons, they all essentially function the same, except some attack faster and some do more damage. The water levels are genuinely annoying to play; sometimes there are so many enemies, its hard to even dodge in a good direction to avoid attacks in a way that doesn't plummet you into the water, losing you one health. And don't get me started on the backtracking. Without a guide, this game would take forever to beat. There are so many areas that you have to come back to once you unlock a certain ability that I have spent a large portion of my current playthrough just wandering around the map, trying to remember where to go next, just to give up and search up a walkthrough. I'm sorry, but if your game needs me to use external sources to simply unlock another area to advance the story, I don't think that's good game design.

All this is just my opinion of course. I know there are many people that enjoy this game (hence the positive reviews) but if you share the same gripes I have, I wouldn't recommend this one to you.

Not sure if I would give this one a second chance.

The game is good, quite simple and pose little difficulty for a souls-like. Do not let the umbrella achievement intimidate you, it's quite quick to get it. I didn't play it's prequel but I gotta say that the story is pretty straightforward and no bs. 8/10

- Crow Souls
- More of a Zelda-like than a real Soulslike, but thematically and in terms of world design it's very reminiscent of Dark Souls.
- Creative character designs and fun dialog.
- Has a character called Pothead because he has a literal pot for head.
- Also has a giant squid puppeteering a human corpse so he can pretend to be a mammal.
- Combat is satisfying, but not very complex.
- There's no ability to heal during fights - only at planters. I feel like this limits how complex fights can be and how long they can go on for, which makes some of the bosses underwhelming.
- There's no penalty for death, which makes it just kind of an annoyance.
- The structure of each zone is always the same: find four souls to unlock a door that grants you a new spell, use the spell to get to the next area of the zone which leads to the boss room, fight the boss.
- I liked the theme of the story.

Overall, definitely worth playing.

This game is adorable. I loved the world, the story, the little bird protagonist. By the end I was running on pure spite. The game respects your time if you want it to yet there are plenty of collectables to find if you want 100%. The combat, broadly, is very fair and any damage you take feels like your fault.

By the end of the game, however, it becomes quite apparent that the lingering hit-boxes and loose controls hold this game back. The final boss in particular feels like it should have been a victory lap if it wasn't a chaotic mess with you getting hit by things that aren't even on screen anymore.

It's a Great Game, the Bosses are Nice and the Soundtrack is Good.

Honestly, it is an outstanding game thru and thru.

Good bosses, amazing visuals, interesting characters.

10/10

if you liked Tunic , this is for you.

A small but very fine pearl away from the mainstream.
Not perfect, but it doesn't have to be.

I enjoyed every minute (even if I got beaten).
And maybe I'll give it a go with the umbrella.

a delightful, contained experience! i don't play a lot of souls-likes or metroidvanias but this definitely makes me want to try more of them.

the health system is a great idea, being quite literally the number of times you can mess up before you have to restart from a checkpoint. the game is forgiving but challenging, you don't lose anything for failure, but the mechanics are enjoyable enough to really make you want to experiment and get better!

completion objectives are approachable, nothing feels inherently unfair, i don't think i ever thought "well how was i supposed to know that!?" at any point during this game, each level is a tutorial for the next, each boss introduces 1 or 2 new mechanics that recur and add to the complexity of each boss.

the different weapons are fun to play with, nothing crazy out there, but enough of a difference i could feel myself developing a play-style, i did my first run through with the biggest weapon i could find, maxing weapon damage, and, because it felt so approachable, did the umbrella run for my second run, which caused me to focus on magic damage, which felt fresh and enjoyable, the lower weapon damage only encouraged me to try a different strategy and get better at incorporating my move-set.

if i had any gripes it might be the occasional bug (my game crashes every time i try to exit to main screen, crashes upon completion, but never in game-play.) and, more so, the control scheme is a bit cumbersome at times. on my first play-through i played exclusively with controller and found myself frustrated by the two button input for magic attacks. the game has aim assist but i found regularly that shots i thought would hit would fly wide, making it feel unreliable and discouraging me from using it. for my second play-through i swapped to mouse and keyboard which helped tremendously with aim, but now had to deal with clunky 8 way movement, and more damningly the magic abilities are mapped to 1-4 with no way to cycle through them like say the scroll wheel or q and e, meaning i had to take at least a finger away from movement to swap abilities, making that feel clunky in turn.

these were minor gripes that didn't really mar my play-through, other elements felt like the developer had a lot of care for the player, like that there's a special background behind the umbrella while you are still eligible for the 'umbrella only' run achievement.

TL,DR; the game is a light and airy experience. pleasant and simple the whole way through. easy to pick up, easy to put down, and if i were recommending it to friends, it would probably be to those without a huge experience of difficult to punch through genres like souls-likes and metroidvanias. this game left me satisfied and unfrustrated.

A competent soulslike with a lot of character. A bit too easy and too linear to become a favourite of mine, but definitely worth experiencing.

It has a very clean art and a solid story / npcs. But the threshhold from an avarage game to being a very great game is very thin. The game felt like an unfinished concept. With some retouchings on the level design, power up design, scaling, normal enemies variety ect, it could be a great game. The lack of orientation option is often annoying. The overall difficulty is meh.

Strongest point was the story, true ending mission felt very mysterious and some bosses, I liked their attack patterns.

I would recommend this game only to newbies metroidvania players, as it is not refined to sit with the best of this genre. Avarage game but enjoyed it. I suggest you to buy it only when on sale.

a cute little game. But it has it's downsides. hitboxes are inconsistent, and there is SOO much back tracking

Great game. Artwork, story, soundtrack and game play are all top notch. Pretty chill game to play but you are kept engaged throughout.

This game is amazing, I felt like a kid playing this game, reminded me when i played Zelda the minish cap,the combat is simple yet engaging and intense when you are sorrounded by enemies,the art is retro and fluid makes you fall in love very fast, the bosses are intuitive that you could defeat them without even dying, also rewards you for elxploring the map, I only defeated one boss and i already love this game.

Good fun when you get into it. Even for casual gamers like myself.

Uma ótima continuação de titan souls com um combate excelente, mundo criativo e uma boa história

Fun indie souls-like game. More approachable than the more difficult games in the genre and it has some gorgeous art and design.

Just got reminded of how much I liked this game.

Nice design aesthetic. Throughly enjoyed all the character designs as well as the worlds. Music was relaxing. The story walked a nice line between amusing and somber. Combat was just challenging enough without getting too frustrating. The game-feel was well tuned (loved the arrows for example. Felt fast and punchy). Enjoyed it enough that I actually felt like collecting all the little thingies to get the "true ending".

Might do a replay soon..

This is by far the most light souls like experience I've come across and I really enjoyed it, I really like the art design, very subtle yet very expressive, I feel like it's just such an easy experience to enjoy, the controls are not complex at all, getting all of its achievements it's not that hard either, and the soundtrack is always quite fitting. Great game.

Awesome game one of my favorites I have ever played. The challenge level was good and the umbrella academy achievement was a hard and fun challenge that was difficult but not impossible. The story was easy to follow and while it was kind of sad sometimes there were lots of funny and charming characters along the way that made it balance out. Each area felt unique and I found myself excited to fight the new enemies in each area.