The Binding of Isaac: The Wrath of the Lamb

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  1. Isaac_adhd
    Jul 27, 2012
    10
    Very little game that gives you way more fun-moments than most big titles. You keep replaying it and it never gets boring. It's very hard and you need a lot of practice. Not that that is a problem. The game is packed with shady humor and it's really suited for almost everybody with some sense pf humor
  2. Rewe
    May 28, 2012
    10
    If you loved The Binding of Isaac, don't even hesitate before buying this. It adds more of everything, and is especially great for those that already 100% cleared the game. It is a tad buggy, but not enough to ruin the experience.
  3. Techenz
    Jun 1, 2012
    10
    This is one of the best dlc's I've ever had for a game, it actually changes the way you play! Overall the game is more difficult than before but why would a newbie buy it before the original? The game for me before was way too easy after killing mom after the 10th time (I've kill mom's heart 28 times). The items are fresh and the soundtrack's still fits perfectly + challenges are fun/hard.This is one of the best dlc's I've ever had for a game, it actually changes the way you play! Overall the game is more difficult than before but why would a newbie buy it before the original? The game for me before was way too easy after killing mom after the 10th time (I've kill mom's heart 28 times). The items are fresh and the soundtrack's still fits perfectly + challenges are fun/hard. For $3 you get a new game basically.… Expand
  4. I7aTP0H
    Jun 1, 2012
    10
    Great game, great DLC. I'm really amazed how such a little game can give more fun than big titles. This DLC add lots of content to the game, which means more hours of gameplay and higher replayability. There are some bugs in this DLC, but come on, that's an indie developer.
  5. Joelthethief
    May 29, 2012
    9
    If you already own the Binding of Isaac, why not buy this? Its cheep and adds tons to the game. New challenges, new items, new enemies will continue to do what this game does best: kick your ass. The only reason this scores a 9 and not a 10, is the fact that the difficulty might be just a bit too hard. Difficulty is one of the appeals of the game, however much like Ed McMillen's otherIf you already own the Binding of Isaac, why not buy this? Its cheep and adds tons to the game. New challenges, new items, new enemies will continue to do what this game does best: kick your ass. The only reason this scores a 9 and not a 10, is the fact that the difficulty might be just a bit too hard. Difficulty is one of the appeals of the game, however much like Ed McMillen's other game, Super Meat Boy, Isaac slowly ramps up the difficulty. Adding Wrath of the Lamb makes takes away this ramp, making the first few levels very hard. Completely worth buying, but consider your self warned!… Expand
  6. megadude510
    May 29, 2012
    9
    The Binding of Isaac, containing randomly-generated dungeons to explore with an insurmountable combination of bosses and enemies, made for a near-infinitely replayable game. The Wrath of the Lamb, being only $3.00, takes that to its extreme, making the deepest parts of the game darker, and the hardest parts even more difficult. You may have mastered The Binding of Isaac, but there's moreThe Binding of Isaac, containing randomly-generated dungeons to explore with an insurmountable combination of bosses and enemies, made for a near-infinitely replayable game. The Wrath of the Lamb, being only $3.00, takes that to its extreme, making the deepest parts of the game darker, and the hardest parts even more difficult. You may have mastered The Binding of Isaac, but there's more to come in this low-cost, high-content addition to the game.… Expand
  7. Crucket
    Jun 21, 2012
    10
    Binding of isaac already had massive replay value and this just pushes it to the extreme.
    3$ for 70% more content including 25 new bosses and mini-bosses, over 100 new items, a new floor type for every existing floor type plus a bonus floor, a whole bunch of new enemies, new rooms, and so much more. The new floors are much more challenging than the old ones but this is welcome after    Binding of isaac already had massive replay value and this just pushes it to the extreme.
    3$ for 70% more content including 25 new bosses and mini-bosses, over 100 new items, a new floor type for every existing floor type plus a bonus floor, a whole bunch of new enemies, new rooms, and so much more. The new floors are much more challenging than the old ones but this is welcome after mastering the vanilla floors, and now that there are over 200 items in the game, its even funner to go and play the game just to see what kind of build you get. While there are bugs, they are getting patched very often and are not a reason not to get this as, a dlc so gigantic is bound to have unforseen bugs.
    However if you have never play the binding of isaac, i recommend that you play without the dlc on first, as it adds much more difficulty to the game and you might want to be familiar with the game first. Its amazing how this 3$ dlc delivers more than a 15$ Call of Duty multiplayer map pack.    … Expand
  8. zhoomcar
    Jun 4, 2012
    10
    If you thought you had mastered Isaac, think again. For $3, the whole formula gets a total revamp. More of everything, and the creepy dial gets turned all the way to 11. Not recommended for newbies. Finish the vanilla game first, and if you want more, come back for the Wrath.
  9. saffers
    Jun 9, 2012
    10
    Binding of Isaac is by itself a great game, but now with almost 75% more content (I think) the game has much more randomness and new things like curses and trinkets
  10. Tashy497
    Jun 5, 2012
    10
    Words, words, opinions, critiques, should-haves, would-haves, this-and-that, next time this not that, wouldn't it be cool if, Blah, blah, blah, blah. This game is the $hit (period).
  11. Xcalibur
    Jun 6, 2012
    8
    I was really optimistic when I heard about this DLC first time. Finally it came out so I bought it. It was cheap, and what I get is, a really good expansion! So many new contents. New bosses, enemies, new room types, tons of new items, and new endings. It is really satisfying to play The Binding of Isaac - The Wrath of the Lamb. The new level types and curses and the trinkets makes theI was really optimistic when I heard about this DLC first time. Finally it came out so I bought it. It was cheap, and what I get is, a really good expansion! So many new contents. New bosses, enemies, new room types, tons of new items, and new endings. It is really satisfying to play The Binding of Isaac - The Wrath of the Lamb. The new level types and curses and the trinkets makes the gameplay better. Some of the new enemies are challenging but the difficulty is still fair. There is a new challenge mode with ten challenges, they're also fun and worth to play for some new items. In some challenges you start with good items, but there are no item rooms. So it is fairly balanced. It is a little bit more difficult than before, but it is still OK.

    On the bad side of TBoI : The Wrath of the Lamb, the DLC is glitchy! There are so many minor and major glitches. Fortunately I didn't run into most of them, but I experienced some and I read about them. The creators try to fix them, v1.15 is already out, but it is still glitchy. Hopefully, major bugs will be fixed, sometimes it can break your gameplay. For example, you can teleport into isolated secret rooms, there is no escape from those out. It can be very annoying.


    There is an other issue since the original game: performance. It is horrible on a weaker computer. There is absolutely no GPU support, everything is calculated by the CPU. If you have a bad CPU, you will get serious slowdowns. The game was written in Flash unfortunately, and in The Wrath of the Lamb, there is still no GPU acceleration. I'm sure if it was written for an other engine, it was way much faster. I was hoping Florian Himsl will do something about it.

    If there was no performance issues and glitches I would give The Binding of Isaac : The Wrath of the Lamb a 10. The gameplay is perfect, you won't be bored after playing it a hundred times. It will be always fresh, you will be surprised by getting new items, and other random stuffs.


    Even with the issues, this game is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!    … Expand
  12. MetricInchworm
    Jun 1, 2012
    9
    This expansion adds so much new content that it's hard to go back to the original. Using the new character, Samson, requires a strategy different from playing as other characters, and it adds a new level of difficulty to the game. Yes, it has its fair share of bugs, but I would rather have them patched later than to have had to wait even longer to get this expansion. Why? It's a diamond inThis expansion adds so much new content that it's hard to go back to the original. Using the new character, Samson, requires a strategy different from playing as other characters, and it adds a new level of difficulty to the game. Yes, it has its fair share of bugs, but I would rather have them patched later than to have had to wait even longer to get this expansion. Why? It's a diamond in the rough, not a polished turd. I find the glitches to be anything but detrimental (except for one where you fight a difficult boss from very far in the game) and in some cases, amusing, similar to Skyrim. It's three dollars. You can't go wrong. Just get it.… Expand
  13. gabriot
    Jul 20, 2012
    7
    Wrath of Lamb fixes a bit of what was empty in the original game. There's still major design flaws in the game (IE having dungeons generated with tons of things you have no capability of getting no matter what path you choose, basement doors opening up right from under you and taking you to the next level before you can get the powerups after a boss victory, enemy health bars beingWrath of Lamb fixes a bit of what was empty in the original game. There's still major design flaws in the game (IE having dungeons generated with tons of things you have no capability of getting no matter what path you choose, basement doors opening up right from under you and taking you to the next level before you can get the powerups after a boss victory, enemy health bars being completely not accurate for instance having an empty bar of health and still going on for a good 10 **** shots, etc. etc.) and there are still plenty of bugs. Trinkets are added which are a pretty "meh" addition in my mind, one HUGE qualm I have with them is that most of them are slight stat boosters, yet you get NO indiciation of what they do - it isn't like a normal powerup or item where in the bottom right it displays what it does, and you can't hover over the item icon or anything to get a brief description of what it's doing (That would just be TOO useful now wouldn't it?), basically it forces you to go outside of the game and look up online wikis to see what they do. That's **** unacceptable - bad design at its finest.

    On principal I also think it's **** you don't have an option to play normal binding of isaac gameplay, once you purchase this game through steam you're **** stuck with it. There's no option in game, no option to uninstall, nope you are now playinig wrath of the lamb indefinitely. Unaccaptable and lazy on behalf of the developer.

    I'm giving it a decent rating because despite it's flaws (which really irk because they'd be EASY to overcome if the developer wasn't so lazy) it's a HIGHLY replayable game, with a great amount of challenge and variety. Well worth the 3 bucks or whatever the **** it costs, it's definitely worth the money, just be prepared to rage often and heavy.    … Expand
  14. Dexter
    May 28, 2012
    6
    Binding of Isaac is a great game, I really loved him I bought the expantion right when it was out.
    the DLC added alot of things to the game, feels like playing it all over again when I didnt know what does what, feels good. BUT! and here comes the but - the DLC is full of bugs and glitches, and I do mean FULL OF THEM, there is so many glitches that sometimes you are not sure if what    Binding of Isaac is a great game, I really loved him I bought the expantion right when it was out.
    the DLC added alot of things to the game, feels like playing it all over again when I didnt know what does what, feels good. BUT! and here comes the but - the DLC is full of bugs and glitches, and I do mean FULL OF THEM, there is so many glitches that sometimes you are not sure if what happened is a bug or how it actually should be. if the bugs are fixed - it will be one of the best DLC for a game. right now it its not so fun, because of the large number of bugs in it.    … Expand
  15. GamerPiggy
    May 29, 2012
    5
    Unfortunately this DLC has bugs galore, along with some questionable design issues. Firstly, the first few floors are unreasonably difficult, even for Isaac. I realize that the game is new, and familiarity will quell this issue, partially, but even still, some of the enemies that are available in the first floor are ridiculous. This goes with one of the new bosses as well, although theUnfortunately this DLC has bugs galore, along with some questionable design issues. Firstly, the first few floors are unreasonably difficult, even for Isaac. I realize that the game is new, and familiarity will quell this issue, partially, but even still, some of the enemies that are available in the first floor are ridiculous. This goes with one of the new bosses as well, although the other boss is much easier.
    The endgame, however, is much easier than it's ever been. This is mostly because in order to get past the first few floors, you have to be over powered. Then, by the time you get to the later floors, your power has only stacked with each new item. This leads to ridiculously easy fights against bosses who should, and used to, pose quite a challenge. Hopefully the bugs and balancing issues will be fixed in time, but at the moment I can't really recommend this DLC; it's only 3 dollars, however, so buy it anyway to support the dev.    … Expand
  16. djvampyre
    Jan 28, 2013
    3
    The game was difficult but only because I had such a terrible time controlling my character. Seriously if you are going to make it this hard give me better controls.
  17. andrew77
    Aug 16, 2012
    8
    I gave the original a 10. this one is lower because of you either get really awesome items from the beginning and you can pass the game or you get crappy ones and die. Also the new character isn't all that great. Samson wasn't worth playing or perhaps was just too hard because I never got good items with him. I did enjoy seeing the new levels but somehow it just wasn't as fun as theI gave the original a 10. this one is lower because of you either get really awesome items from the beginning and you can pass the game or you get crappy ones and die. Also the new character isn't all that great. Samson wasn't worth playing or perhaps was just too hard because I never got good items with him. I did enjoy seeing the new levels but somehow it just wasn't as fun as the original. I played though only about 20x compared to over 100x with the original. overall however it was still worth the $3 full price from steam.… Expand
  18. marto
    Aug 8, 2013
    10
    I look at my Steam stats and it says I played this game for 300 hours. That says enough about this game's replay value. The story, characters, enemies and collectibles are very consistent with smart references.
  19. eternalsnows
    Jul 6, 2013
    10
    Games don't get better than The Binding of Isaac. Edmund McMillan is one of the greatest game designers of all time and that's apparent in every nook and cranny of Isaac. Yes, it is absurdly difficult and never gets easy no matter how much you play. The only way to win consistently is to become a total BofI expert. You have to know what every item does and understand all the tricks neededGames don't get better than The Binding of Isaac. Edmund McMillan is one of the greatest game designers of all time and that's apparent in every nook and cranny of Isaac. Yes, it is absurdly difficult and never gets easy no matter how much you play. The only way to win consistently is to become a total BofI expert. You have to know what every item does and understand all the tricks needed to maximize the potential of every choice that the game presents. It's immensely rewarding once you get the hang of it. The music is wonderful and the art style totally quirky and delightful. You won't understand how it's possible to put "embryo" and "adorable" in the same sentence until you play Isaac. A must have game for hardcore gamers.… Expand
  20. 1771174
    Jul 29, 2013
    6
    The binding of Isaac is a great game, and this dlc adds a lot of stuff making it feel almost a brand new one. Sadly, this has greatly unbalanced the game, in the means of making it difficult at a level that feels more frustrating then challenging. The new enemies are way more powerful than the old ones. There are more powerful power-up too, but they go in the same pool of the old ones,The binding of Isaac is a great game, and this dlc adds a lot of stuff making it feel almost a brand new one. Sadly, this has greatly unbalanced the game, in the means of making it difficult at a level that feels more frustrating then challenging. The new enemies are way more powerful than the old ones. There are more powerful power-up too, but they go in the same pool of the old ones, making it difficult to make builds powerful enough to match with the challenges of the new enemies. Rooms full of monster, where is almost impossible to get through without taking damage, are quite common, I've actually died a lot of times despite having very good power-up because I couldn't fly and dodge all that was being thrown to me. I like difficulty, but I like it when it is fair, and in this case it doesn't feel like it. My advise, if you haven't played yet vanilla, is to play it without the dlc. Then, if you really want more and are fine with what I described above, go for it, the amount of content it adds it's sure worth the price.… Expand
  21. TaraDarveaux
    Jun 5, 2014
    10
    A couple of bucks for so many cool additions to an already fantastic game. Get it now. I waited, but I shouldn't have because it's so very worth it. Trinkets were an interesting addition.
  22. Gason
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    A friend of mine showed me the demo of The Binding of Isaac and I bet it several times and began with The Binding of Isaac: The Wrath of the Lamb. And I had a great time with it. The best experience was in the beginning, because I had more things to learn, find or kill. I love replaying the game and beating the final boss with all of the seven playable characters. The game proves that theA friend of mine showed me the demo of The Binding of Isaac and I bet it several times and began with The Binding of Isaac: The Wrath of the Lamb. And I had a great time with it. The best experience was in the beginning, because I had more things to learn, find or kill. I love replaying the game and beating the final boss with all of the seven playable characters. The game proves that the indie games are also games deserving to be played.… Expand
  23. Bacondoughnut
    Aug 5, 2014
    10
    Most amazing DLC ever made. Expands the game to twice its original size, and makes the experience infinitely more likely to make you smile when you fight a new boss or pick up a new item you have never seen before.
  24. jromero82
    Nov 29, 2014
    3
    This game is really just something to play to pass some time. It does keep you replaying it over and over to try to actually get anywhere. But for most people, you will find it a waste of time and money. I tried this game at a friends house. I'm glad I didn't pay any money for this.
  25. Andromeda707
    Apr 6, 2021
    0
    8.2/10
    Wrath of the Lamb делает всё то, что и должно делать DLC для игры, в которой главное удовольствие заключается в процессе получения разного контента - добавляет контент. Много контента. Запустил оригинальный Binding of Isaac я прежде всего ради ознакомления, но в итоге залип в него на несколько десятков часов, и залипал бы и дальше, если бы не сделал одну непростительную ошибку -    8.2/10
    Wrath of the Lamb делает всё то, что и должно делать DLC для игры, в которой главное удовольствие заключается в процессе получения разного контента - добавляет контент. Много контента. Запустил оригинальный Binding of Isaac я прежде всего ради ознакомления, но в итоге залип в него на несколько десятков часов, и залипал бы и дальше, если бы не сделал одну непростительную ошибку - запустил Rebirth, и возвращаться в Adobe Flash просто напросто больше нет желания, ведь весь контент, преподнесённый в оригинальных частях, наверняка уже есть в ремейке. Тем не менее я в достаточной степени успел насладиться Wrath of the Lamb, оценив масштаб и важность подобного дополнения для подобной игры, и даже перевыполнил свой план, случайно выполнив несколько испытаний (при своих то кривых руках). Сатану и других супербоссов в итоге так и не одолел, но мы с ними ещё обязательно встретимся. Уже в пиксель-арт варианте.    … Expand
  26. p_ulisses
    Aug 1, 2020
    8
    It is from the same guys who did Super Meat Boy, so I wanted to check it out. For me it felt so much harder than SMB, and the keys position in the keyboard bothered me a little. But this is just some personal complaining. The game's challenge is great.
  27. Tromble
    Jun 30, 2021
    8
    The gold standard for game expansions, brings an already fantastic game close to being a masterpiece.