The Eternal Cylinder

Truly no one else makes games like ACE team. This game is unique and weird with so much charm to it. You set out knowing very little and just learn along the way. I was immediately thinking about the old 2000 pc game, Evolva when playing this, where you evolve and mutate your characters depending on the actions you repeat and DNA you absorb. In this game you suck up creatures, minerals and flora and some can be ingested to mutate certain attributes such as a balloon body to float or a chemical mixing body to combine items into deadly projectiles. The only downside to this game is how little information there is. You do learn along the way through the story and just by experience but some sections can be obtuse at times. Thankfully you can save pretty much whenever you want to make mistakes more bearable. At some point about half way through the game I got the ability to fill out a mutation tree. Interacting with a certain shrine gave me a section on this tree to give specific resources to that allows you to unlock and use a mutation at will. I'm pretty sure I visited every shrine I could and yet by the end of the game I hadn't filled out that tree. It really seemed like something that should've been unlocked earlier. There are also some resources that are biome specific so if you miss them you won't get them until much later. Just some odd design decisions. Near the end the game also just cranks up the difficulty with the advanced enemy spawns. I didn't have much trouble as I was pretty leveled and had a full family but it was still surprising to see the random jump. I did run into one escape the cylinder section that I could not get past on normal. Idk how much procedural generation there is in terms of terrain but no matter what I did I could not outrun it. Even after bumping it down to low cylinder aggression I just barely got through.