I played it a lot, because I did not play it last DD. I did not record it, but I wrote things down and took many screenshots. I realized I got way too many important screenshots so I named them, organized them and zipped them. You can find them here https://mega.nz/file/uIskRIAR#IuiFpGtY0YZz6z9585pfQIco-JeRhFvOtrPixRc-pms

Let me know if mega does not work for you and we can figure things out. Anyway, here's a list of things I wrote down while playtesting:

• The game seems even more random now. There is less player involvement and control which is not something I like.

• It’s really hard to come up with builds when your starting symbols are random, and you also do not know what boss you are going to face.

• On first level, I found the broken machine to be much harder to deal with than the ghost.

• Turning off the extra tooltips stopped my game from lagging whenever tooltips appear. I remember us talking about how the lag was due to me playing the game with Wine on Linux, but it is odd that turning those detailed tooltips off fixes it.

• I still think shops should have some healing.

• Shops > Items > Symbols > Dropping Minigame > Pinball > Space Invaders

• I did not fight many enemies that were new to me, because whenever I got to level 2 and 3 I was very picky with my fights. Maybe just for testing purposes you could give testers ability to start on later levels with some gear.

• Headache did not seem to work with Rainbow.

• Nothing is capped! There should be a cap on Midas and Shell, and possibly introduce some “Sudden Death” after x number of turns.

• Sucker Punch should have minimum 1 dmg.

• I have never beaten the space invaders minigame (even with Joystick item)

• I played pinball once, and I at least got some tokens out of it.

• Unlocking system is nice. I would like to see requirements for Unlocks not just from the title screen (especially when there is no good way to get there). I would also like to b able to see a full list of items and symbols in the game.

• The most OP symbols in my opinion are Straws, Midas Touch, Empty Wallet. (See my multiple victory sreenshots in Victories folder)

• The coolest symbol is Angry Meal.

• Sometimes map generation really wants me to backtrack a lot. I wish there were less obstacle tiles connecting vertically that essentially split the map in half.

My Unlocks at the end

You can see the whole progression in the Unlocks folder.

A request: When in a battle, please give some way to see the name of the enemy, names such as “tinker” or “queen of diamonds” or “DJ”.

I went specifically for a starting deck that could grind the blue dice. In a previous run, I had bones, the green symbol that has dissolve and gives health, bitcoin, shield, and midas touch, and I ended up with over 2800 chips after two battles with blue cubes.

In this run, I got a starting deck close to what I wanted like the above, except I got fists instead of bones. The blue dice were defeated too quickly, but it still generated a good amount of chips from red dice. But then I stupidly decided to go up against the tinker, which was blocking a hole in a wall on the map. As it turns out, bones would probably have been better in this case, since bones would probably have worn down the shell accumulation.

Played a game of space invaders, and again got the “you won” screen bug. Pachinko also has the issue that if you click on “View Reels”, you can accidentally drop the ball.

Confirmation that bouncers can be grinded for both maximum health and for chips if you have the right deck and items. I did not have all the symbols and items shown below when I started grinding the bouncers.

• unlocking stuff is fun
• the newly rebalanced icons and items seem to be done well. i haven’t found any icons/items that i would take in every situation which is a good thing
• i like the new HUD, i think. i’m used to the last one
  • except that the black lines and outlines on the enemy intentions “thought box” visually messes with the black outlines of numbers
• i think the art and animations of the Grenade Crookey are really good
• i hate starting with random items. some builds feel impossible to win the first few fights with
  • i had hoped that unlocks would be unlockables that you’d be able to choose for your starting build. i’m just not a fan of the “play to unlock randomly appearing content” design and i can’t see what value it adds
  • i think Midas Touch in its current state is too good to be a starting icon
• the new map generation is mildly more interactive, but still nothing interesting happens on the map stage and i have too much freedom to sometimes avoid fighting entirely and walk to the money & healing, store, and then boss which feels optimal but not fun
  • even the fact that there are enemies that counter my build, that i have to know that before choosing to fight them, and that i can just not interact with them, is unfun to me
• something about your build relying on paying $100 to pick one of three random icons isn’t that fun
  • moreover, money is so limited that you don't get to make many interesting choices at the deckbuilding level before you’re spent
  • i think not getting an icon after every battle is a good change because that was the engine to getting easily overpowered, but it feels like there was nothing to replace its functionality
• i think Red Wine dissolves even though its description doesn’t mention it. i didn’t get to test it this build

Is it intended that Red Wine permanently doubles negative power?

I don't think you should have the intro movie play immediately upon the game loading. It feels like it jumps out at me and maybe I want to adjust the graphics or audio settings first?

Fantastic intro movie, love her expressions.

I'd like to be able to do maximized windowed because that allows me to see it on my full screen but I can easily jump back to my browser to type my thoughts.

So happy you got rid trying to time each reel. I ain't built for that kind of focus these days, I'm an oldfriend!

When the silver platter comes out, it should move slightly or have a shining effect, to indicate to the player they must click it to open it and see what they get. It would also be nice juice.

The "Enter" button for the gift shop is too small. Why don't I enter when I click anywhere on the gift shop?

It told me I got a hammer Symbol but now I don't see it... Edit: I understand now. It is available in the game but I don't get it. As someone who doesn't play roguelikes this confused me.

When I have the symbols window open, I'd like it if I could click outside of it to close it rather than having to click the top right icon again.

How do I use Perfume? Edit: oh I guess I need another symbol with Dissolve? I didn't realize that when I bought it.

You need SFX and music for Space Invaders!

I started another run. It told me I got a stinky cheese symbol. It looks like this symbol is bad because it heals the enemy? And then it says it applies poison to the opponent. Are "enemy" and "opponent" the same?

Is the slot machine completely randomized? I was trying to time the first reel but gave up.

It says the Bouncers are coming but it doesn't seem like they move each time.

Gave up after my second run. It's pretty hard. I sort of see how I can strategize it well but I don't think I'm patient enough to keep trying. But for fans of the genre I bet they'll love this.

Very cool concept. I'd wish for the following changes:

- The bandit being either completely reflex-based, but with infinite time, (each reel spinning indefinitely, and stopping ~immediately on button press) or not at all (no button press, combat is completely automatic). The way it currently is, with 2nd and 3rd reel stopping shortly after first one, automatically - maybe I am just skill-issued, but I always feel like there WOULD be right time to press the button, it's just too tedious for me, to calculate the reels in the head. And I just try to press when I see red or whichever color I stacked on the left and then hope for the best. Idk, maybe just offer all 3 styles of Bandit and let the player decide.

- The initial loadout not be randomized. Either always the same, or a few different ones to choose from ("classes")

- For deciding which symbols to pick up, perhaps I haven't understood the full depth yet, but I felt that just stacking one single color was easily the best strategy. Otherwise I would just get too many dud spins. Don't really understand the combo/multi pieces, though, do they count as any color? Anyways maybe you can come up with more ideas to enable mixing the colors, or balancing dud spins. Or maybe they already exist in the game. Was just my thoughts while playing.

My performance so far, if you care: First run died to first enemy (a dice), second run died to first boss, third run went up to 500 coins at first encounter, reached second floor, lost 60 health to a barwoman pitching drinks so I had 4 health at the 2nd boss and lost. I have no complaints. (Reading through this again, makes me think, what if there was no health, but you lost at 0 coins? Would fit the flavor very well and make for sth. different compared to all the other roguelites with coins.)

The animations and visual style I think are very cool and fitting. The unlocks are confusing to me, because why am I unlocking these things? I am barely even finding items in the game world. In the first 15 minutes I "unlock" 3 items, that have exciting descriptions, but I only find a single item to actually pick up. But this is something that I don't understand in many Roguelites, e.g. in Enter the Gungeon it makes absolutely no sense to me either. But in RoR2 I love it, because the unlocks come from doing more or less crazy things in game. There's the special satisfaction, the first 10-20 hours of playing RoR2, where you do something insane and have the beautiful popup with an item unlock. Like the game telling you, ya, that was indeed mad.

So, I am a fan of this genre and I would've bought your game on steam for 5-10€ from the pitch and screenshots. Keep trucking!!

edit: Playing a bit more, I realize I have been stupid. The 2nd and 3rd reels can never be controlled, I thought they could be if one pressed fast enough. So it's quite a bit of luck, all in all, I like that. The Multi symbols clearly have 2 different colors. That is also nice.

In the screen there's map generation bug I found.

Cool that you can control camera in minigames now.

I wonder if the 1st map is too hard? All the times combined I played OAB (with previous DDs) probably amounts to about 3-4 hours and I defeated the 1st boss only 2 times so far. I don't mind this, but I fear it could be a filter for a new player getting hooked. This is can only be determined by a sum of multiple people's experience, so that's just my hunch.

Nice to see there's more assets for enemies and pickups, and improvements  like health bar looking better now. The polish is increasing. Can't wait to see more.

Surprised the game started with the intro animation and there was no main menu (I think).

But the presentation is amazing and I manage to beat some native American ghost to reach the disco themed area.

I wonder if this game does rely on randomization and trying stuff again, because it'd technically fit with the casino theme.

Some enemies have fun designs and I also like the mechanic of bouncers going up to pressure you into progress.