This is so much fun! The combat has a really unique flavor to it. The art style is simple but really charming, clear, and cohesive. I really appreciate the design symmetry: how friendly fire is a thing, how traps work on enemies, how enemies seem to use the same skills the player can use.

I only played for an hour and didn't see anything, but the mages, thieves, and goblins were all fun to fight against. The enemies without tells are a little more meh. Taking damage from stuff like rats and bats that just run into you felt a little more awkward and random, it would be cool if they had a 1 frame windup animation too. 

There are some changes I'd suggest but they might be too big given that you're planning on releasing later this year. Given the robustness of the loot system, and all the abilities tied to enemies, I feel like strict classes are working against you here. It would be cool if you could mix and match stuff more. You could also generate adventurer based enemies with more variety by mixing skills around like this. 

I'm also not sure if the perma-death is the best inclusion given that levels seem static. It would be cool if there was a mode where you could keep your dude but maybe have to start over from a uncommonly spaced checkpoints. It's interesting that you keep all your floors unlocked but starting from the beginning felt necessary with a fresh character anyway. 

Had lots of fun, will definitely wishlist this and pick it up when it comes out! 

The gamefeel is fantastic and the action really gets going once you gain a couple of level ups and better item drops.

There's something a little off about the pixel art style in terms of having different kinds of UI elements (especially text) that have a way different scaling to the actual gameplay. The art style is consistent, so this isn't as distracting after a while.

What I'd focus on before release would be to improve the writing. The steam page's top description should point out more about the gameplay and not be a story explanation (write it more like this: "Archtower is an X genre game where you Y and Z"). The in-game dialogue and quest descriptions had a weird tone (a father calling his dead son a loser out of the blue?). You probably want to get a proofreader to go through the whole script before final release.

This is my second time playing Archtower for DD and im glad to see it back. The combat is good as ever and the new features and environment decorations are great.  Fun to try different classes.  Wishlisted it and look forward to release :)

This is some good shit! It feels like a melee-oriented, roguelite Gun Godz, which is something I didn't know I wanted to play until now. It's definitely a game I will consider buying when its full release arrives.

I was near-instantly hooked with the combat, items and upgrade system. It was simple enough for me to understand, but seemed to have greater depth which I haven't fully tapped into yet.

I've only played one run for about 20 minutes, dying somewhere at floor 2, so I don't have much in-depth feedback to give at the moment. If there's anything I did notice, it was that the enemy variety felt shallow for the first two floors, but since this just is a demo submission, I'm not going to hold that against you.

I like the Idea with the Water and Swampy more outdoorsy feel, I don't like the Enemies ( just because I don't like Bugs in General), the Mosquitos are really getting under my Skin with that Soundeffect, so good Job on those I guess?  The Collision on the Swamp Trees feels off, I'd like it to be a little smaller, got Stuck on them quite often. Level 10 seems to be the maximum? I got stuck on needing 1exp for levelup, but never reached level 11. I like the new Blue drops, even tho I got only 1 and that was useless for what I was running, but it made me excited for whats to come in Future Floors. Barrel Destroyed might be too powerful, once activated at Stage start, I could just run around in circles passively dodging most attacks and having it take care of the Floor for me, but maybe it was just thanks to wearing full caster/crystal buff stuff. Twice I got attacked right when I was starting to talk with the Elfguy, I'd prefer it if enemies wouldn't trigger right at the beginning of a floor, so I could have some Time talking to the guy right in front of me first. I didn't test it, but what would happen if I killed the whole Floor first and then accepted the Quest to kill 24 Mosquitoes? Would that just not be complete-able until I exited and re-entered the floor or would it autocomplete?

Overall still a very nice Game, and I still wish it had random floor layouts ( or maybe just in an extra mode) for more replayability.