Twinworld Survivor

Love the pixel anime feel of this game. Fun to play until the last level, then there’s not as much to do… very buggy. There are blue and green chests that show up in levels surrounded by destructible terrain. But when you think you are touching them, most of the time nothing happens, as they are actually in another location but invisible. Very hard to pickup what you can’t see.

To point out immediately, the game has no additional transactions or P2W mechanics. It’s all done in parody and you will eventually unlock features (via “cracking” as they call it in game) such as premium battle passes, ad skips (there are no ads to watch and the game simply locks the option to do so) and everything else that would normally require premium currency will be available to you. The game has an energy system where you regenerate 1 every two minutes and a stage (costs 5 energy) will take about 7-9 minutes on average. In practice the energy limitation is a non-issue when with you eventually unlock “ad-free” features. For a priced game, it feels very unpolished, unoptimized and has quite a few bugs. There isn’t much production value in music or sound direction, I’ve had more than one issue with invisible walls, random crashes and slow load times in the main menu. The game requires a constant, stable connection; unlike other games of this genre you will lock up and be unable to control your character or play the game if connection is interrupted or lost. They do have a discord and it seems they are actively working to fix some of the more prominent bugs (save data being lost was recently addressed), but the game in its current state is not worth picking up over other games in this genre.

I got some cool weapons from beating a level then next level my character runs off screen uncontrollably. After restarting my game is back at the 1st level and all my stuff is gone.