Rack And Slay Review (Steam)

by Pete Collinsworth · Published May 13, 2024 · Updated May 16, 2024

Rack And Slay Review, The rogue-like dungeon crawler where you’re a billiard ball! Push monster balls into holes or traps in randomly generated levels. Draft from a large variety of 100+ items with stackable, game-changing effects. Find combos to build your own synergies and customize your playstyle. Rack and Slay!

Rack And Slay Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
561.32MB download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support.
Graphics settings – fullscreen, and light intensity.
Game settings – screenshake, screen flash, blood/skulls, always fast forward, fast forward speed, gamepad detection, show controls overlay, and bigger tool tips.
Three save difficulties – Rookie, Intermediate, and Standard.
Puzzle like billiards gameplay.
Initial tutorial pop-up before playing your first game.
The goal of the game is to eliminate the enemy balls by potting them or hitting them with spikes, bombs, etc.
Three run-style ways to play – raid (1 level), delve (5 levels), and crawl (10 levels). You choose the difficulty aswel.
Wild run is where you get a random run with special run modifiers and a chance to add more modifiers.
Daily run game mode.
Earn gold from picking it up and from buffs/abilities to then use in the shop for things like health or a redraw of the cards.
Between each round, you pick one of three random cards to use.
Wide variety of cards from extra coins to more power-ups or abilities.
Power-ups and health can be picked up in the level by hitting them but having the enemy hit them gives them the power/item.
You get an aiming line and where the ball will go direction-wise, a handy set of fine-tuned buttons helps line up shots.
Clear levels to rank up to and unlock new items for the shop and to appear in the game.
The Hud shows health, progress in the current mode, shots left, etc.
When playing a mode with levels you take damage from every enemy you don’t clear if you run out of shots.
Challenges mode has a set of specific runs and lets you tweak the difficulty.
You take damage when you pit yourself or go into a spike or other element.
Very moreish and has you coming back time after time.
Easy to learn.

Rack And Slay Review Cons:

Bare minimum graphics settings.
The initial tutorial for some reason confused me more than it should have.
The music is not great.
Aiming is very sensitive, yes it has the fine tune but the speed of the baseline aiming is really fast.
No online leaderboards which feels like a missed opportunity.
The ball physics feel a bit all over the place especially the speed of them.

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