so I just played about 20mins of The Vagrant, which is on sale for $1.59 / 1.59€, I got it because it looked cool in the pictures and it was cheap enough to take a leap of faith.
Let's get the obvious out of the way right off the bat, the protagonist couldnt be more animu waifu if she tried. Shes basically naked, so surely this is trash bundle fodder right? I expected a simple 2d action game, I did not expect a fully fledged 2d action rpg with great vanillaware style art, npcs to talk to, stores to buy stuff, gear (enchantable gear even apparently), magic skills, a talent tree with various stat passives, cooking system with various buffs to get and new moves to learn... what's going on here, at first glance this looks like a $15-20 "normal" indie game that given the subject matter would even had made some waves (*cought*ifitwasonswitch*cough*), I keep looking for "the catch" and I can't find one. Oh wait, it must be like 2 hours long right?
welp, that's not it! So unless the game is straight up broken and deletes your save or something, which given the very positive reviews on steam is probably not a thing, again, The gameplay seems fine from what I played, if a little loose (also the lady's dash attack makes her cross the entire screen which messes with my positioning) and enemies dont block your path so you can pass through sprites which again makes adjusting for attack postioning weird, but those are small things in a otherwise enjoyable game (again, from the 20 or so minutes I played).
I'm struggling to wrap my head around the game's low base price (and in this case, sale price). But hey, one fiddy for a vanillaware-style 2d action game is not shabby at all especially since those dont usually land on PC.