Into the Pit

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4.5

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 5 out of 8
  3. Negative: 3 out of 8

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  1. hamik17594
    Nov 9, 2021
    0
    There might be something fun somewhere in Into The Pit, but after several hours in the game, I sure haven't found it. It's been a long time since I experienced combat this unimaginative. I've maybe never seen upgrades this worthless. All wrapped up in a world where nothing is readable and it wouldn't look good even if it was. Into The Pit can go Into The Bin.
  2. damacaner
    Oct 21, 2021
    7
    Good game overall, with some flaws.
    - Enemies are bullet sponge. If you played Borderlands 2, you probably got used to this but it is far worse sponge now.
    -New content unlocks slowly. You need to rescue 45 villagers in total to unlock all contents, every floor has 8 rooms, 1/8 chance of lost villager room appearing, and you need to clear 4 rooms before proceeding to next floor. Do the    Good game overall, with some flaws.
    - Enemies are bullet sponge. If you played Borderlands 2, you probably got used to this but it is far worse sponge now.
    -New content unlocks slowly. You need to rescue 45 villagers in total to unlock all contents, every floor has 8 rooms, 1/8 chance of lost villager room appearing, and you need to clear 4 rooms before proceeding to next floor. Do the math for all 45 villagers I passed Calculus 1 with D-. (approx 80 hours grind to unlock all content. wtf.)
    -Uh... Repetitive. Before unlocking the next content you need to grind at least 1.30 hours and it is boring, repetitive as hell.
    -This is a fast paced game, and enemies comes from nowhere so game is kinda hard.
    Pros:
    +Kinda rich skill pool. It is still repetitive after the first 5 hours.
    +Fast movement system from Quake 1.
    +Free with gamepass.
    +Sounds are good.
    +Cant find any pros.
    +Just buy a gamepass and play 3-4 hours.    … Expand
  3. hosolah302
    Oct 21, 2021
    2
    Into The Pit stumbles in two major areas: gameplay and progression. Fundamentally, it's "Quake but with bad visual design and worse level design?" and the progression is such a convoluted, grinding, unrewarding waste of time that the game seems to WANT you to stop playing it. We're immediately grinding for 'motes' which serve a variety of unclear functions, none of which improve theInto The Pit stumbles in two major areas: gameplay and progression. Fundamentally, it's "Quake but with bad visual design and worse level design?" and the progression is such a convoluted, grinding, unrewarding waste of time that the game seems to WANT you to stop playing it. We're immediately grinding for 'motes' which serve a variety of unclear functions, none of which improve the gameplay to the point of tolerability. You know those games that give you upgrade options like "Your projectiles move %1 faster" when projectile speed is functionally irrelevant? This is that.… Expand
  4. bobby_heat
    Oct 27, 2021
    5
    I'm not a tryhard at all... but this was by far the easiest roguelike I have ever played. I think I died 7-8 times throughout the entire game, until the true credits rolled. If you have any ability to understand combo potential and stacking upgrades, the combat becomes essentially meaningless because of the unbalanced power - but still fun (think Quake or Doom). I played the entire gameI'm not a tryhard at all... but this was by far the easiest roguelike I have ever played. I think I died 7-8 times throughout the entire game, until the true credits rolled. If you have any ability to understand combo potential and stacking upgrades, the combat becomes essentially meaningless because of the unbalanced power - but still fun (think Quake or Doom). I played the entire game with a single-shot sniper spell in my left hand, and a spray/shotgun spell in my right. I just stacked damage and DOT upgrades on top of those every time, and upgraded all the health support runes.

    The game is also unfortunately very shallow in how it approaches randomization: you have a crystal for each zone (a zone is just a series of five layers of four rooms, then a boss - a.k.a. "a run") and you can mix two crystals together to make another zone that is just a mishmash of enemy types and textures from the two you used to make the new one.

    Each zone has 3 villagers in it. You save all 3 by completing the zone. There are 45(ish) villagers in the game, but you only need to save 30 to unlock the crystal for the final zone and boss. That's the entire game.

    I'm glad I got this on gamepass, and the only reason I kept playing until the end was because it felt like playing Quake or Doom. My total playtime was around 10-11 hours to see the credits. Most of my deaths were caused by things outside of my control, like getting caught on wall textures or being overwhelmed as soon as I spawn by what felt like an enemy spawn glitch.

    Only purchase this if you are an FPS junkie and have absolutely nothing else to do with a weekend. Even then, just get gamepass, try the game a bit, and then play one of the better games on there for the rest of the weekend.    … Expand

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67

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

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  2. Mixed: 8 out of 9
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  1. GameCritics
    Dec 14, 2021
    65
    I have a great fondness for roguelikes, but this one puts me in a weird place. Mechanically, Into The Pit is a welcome throwback to classic FPS games with the added twist of randomized elements to keep things interesting. However, the pool of random elements is too shallow and there are not enough interesting combinations to keep all but the most dedicated players interested.
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  2. GameSkinny
    Nov 11, 2021
    60
    Into the Pit is a retro FPS/roguelike that's far less than the sum of its parts. It's got great action, but everything that surrounds it is questionable.
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  3. COGconnected
    Nov 1, 2021
    67
    It’s a fast paced shooter, that feels really tight as a first person shooter. It’s meant to be played in fast bursts, so maybe it’s the perfect exciting thing to get you pumped while commuting on the bus. Or the kind of game where you breeze through the dialogue, turn off the sound and play while listening to a 25 hour audiobook. Into the Pit is a well-constructed roguelike shooting game and if you’re the kind of person who hears those words and yells, “I’m sold!” then you will probably have a lot of fun. But it’s not going to make believers out of genre-skeptics.
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