Now that I've done everything the game offers and there is a month until the "last" dlc releases, I thought it might be a good time to drop a proper review on this one helluva game.

I love rogue-like games and my favorite one is by far Isaac, the foremost reason for this has to be variety because, damn, is this game keeps on giving and giving. There are a total of 547 items with the afterbirth and afterbirth+ expansions and while some of them don’t add new mechanics to the game most of them do just that, which means you are never playing the same thing and your run is always fresh and intriguing but Isaac offers more than a ton of items to keep you interested, it also makes it so those items synergize with each other and even after 420 something hours there are item synergies I’ve yet to see and by the looks of it the last dlc “Repentance” is going to bring around even more item synergies.

Another reason I love this game is that how challenging it is, right of the bat it throws you in any random seed with no tutorial whatsoever, the only thing you have is the basic to learn yet hard to master controls engraved on the first room of each run, it says you run you shoot now have fun, and you die a lot when you first start the game (at least I did). You have hundreds of enemy types, each with their unique properties and dozens of bosses with different attack and movement patterns, %90 of the items don’t even tell you what they do when you pick them up and while some are obvious like the item which turns your little crybaby tears into a damn deathray, you might miss some of the less obvious ones. Isaac is not a rogue-lite it is a rogue-like which means you can’t just lose one run and start the next being more powerful, how far you get in a run is purely based on skill and luck, so basically you have to git gud.

I already pre-order repentance and I probably won’t update this review as I’m sure it will be great and I’ll love it. All in all this game is a masterpiece and even if you are more of a casual player you should give it a chance because it is so much fun. Much love to Edmund and everyone who contributed to the makings of this game, thank you all!