Blacksea Odyssey suffers from a poorly implemented rogue-lite structure. Putting aside the duff controls, the main hindrance to your enjoyment will be having to suffer through levelling up the player character in a near endless slog until the game finally becomes fun.
Blacksea Odyssey2016
Blacksea Odyssey
2016 Spiral Summit Games70Good
Playtime
LongTypically 30 hours
Playable on
Available on
- $9.99
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Details
- Launch
- June 1, 2016
- Developer
- Blacksea Odyssey
- Publisher
- Spiral Summit Games
- Themes
Overview
Enter the Blacksea Odyssey, a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot ‘em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. Explore dangerous, interstellar spacescapes as you hunt enormous space-behemoths with a harpoon and rune-infused spears. Unlock fierce space-huntsmen and collect runes to customize your spear and space-board to hunt as you please in the deadliest competition in the universe - the Blacksea Odyssey!
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Reception
Press65
Players80
WorthwhileGreat- OpenCritic65from 4 reviews
It’s such a shame a few technical issues exist because when Blacksea Odyssey is doing what it does best, pitting you against giant space beasties armed with nothing more than a toothpick, and you’re not caught in a mess of vines, this game is a tough but enjoyable title. It’s not as readily gratifying as other games in the genre and if you like a long...
Blacksea Odyssey is a rather challenging game for me to score because it's filled with both wonderful highs and demoralizing lows.
Blacksea Odyssey is rather unique in the saturated genre of top-down twin-stick shooters. With it’s strong likeness to Toukiden yet played out as a top-down, Rogue-like, bounty collection game, it’s a game which you can easily spend many hours in without actually getting very far. It’s a great game for those who love games in the twin-stick shooter...
With plenty of replayability, fans of both twin stick and top down shooters should give Blacksea Odyssey a shot.