Screen Rant's AK-xolotl review.
Quick Links The cuteness potential of axolotls remains woefully underutilized in modern gaming, an issue which new action-roguelite AK-xolotl seeks to resolve. It’s a firearm-filled cute’em up about everyone’s favorite critically endangered neotenic amphibian, mixing the shooter mechanics of formative classic roguelite Nuclear Throne with some light cooking and baby maintenance mechanics.
Raising Amphibiguns Yes, the premise of the game’s armed amphibians never ventures far past its titular pun, but it’s a serviceable shorthand that gets players right into the action with minimal fuss. The feel and essence here is mostly drawn from Vlambeer’s now-ten-year-old title Nuclear Throne, an early warning shot for the action-roguelite genre which combined challenging top-down run’n’gunning with randomized levels and pick-three mutations.
Other hub features include vendors, like a vulture creature who non-lethally absorbs the happiness from axolittles to provide permanent buffs, summoning direct reference to The Dark Crystal. It’s not the only such callout in AK-xolotl, which gets pretty sloppy with its memes, pop culture hat-tips, and even direct references to other action-roguelites like The Binding of Isaac or the lesser-known Blazing Beaks.
Each level contains one to three alternating routes with no backtracking, and they all end in the same boss every time, with no minibosses, corruption effects, or elite enemies to tangle with. There are barely any environmental hazards, no challenge loop system, no multiplayer, or seemingly anything else to help extend the game's longevity in any way.
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