For Sparta

Bug Report: 

It's possible to reach a state where the enemies are outside the map and refuse to return.  I'm not sure what triggered this, but maybe one of my blueprints had knockback or one of the enemies decided to run away from me due to heavy use of shielding?

Bonus suggestions: 

• Not relevant here (I don't have that blueprint), but having some sort of indicator to make tiny enemies easier to spot would be helpful.  I.e., if all remaining enemies are tiny, have them become a bit more noticeable somehow. 
• Once "camp" becomes available, off-screen attacks should be canceled.  It's a bit obnoxious to have a random enemy shoot spikes 20 seconds after the camp appears (and if you're wondering why I was still around, I was collecting essence from ghost of sparta, who was already more than half-way across the map).
• Provide sort functions for the blueprint shop.

Suggestion:

Nerf Rage of Sparta as follows:

• Disable ammo regeneration while ANY shield is in place.
• Increase ammo regeneration speed (i.e., such a base Rage of Sparta with no other blueprints has the same maximum shield time per time period)

I would also suggest reducing the ammo count to 2 and/or dropping the buff time by 25%.

Why:

Currently, it's very easy to get blueprints such that a player is always able to refresh Rage of Sparta on first shield blink (i.e., well before the shield runs out).  For example, by combining Rage of Sparta with Quick Breath.  Similarly, Other shield buffs (Vitamin D, Blessings from the Bronze House) make it very likely that a player can complete a stage without ever letting their shield vanish. 

In contrast to the perpetual spear generator, this combo is not particularly fun, since it basically means the player is immune to all damage.

Alternative approach, which is perhaps complicated enough to deserve a custom mode rather than a pick-up:

After picking up Rage of Sparta, immunity (regardless of source) behaves as follows:

• Being hit sets the shield timeout to 0.25s (unless the timeout is already below 0.25s).
• Being hit with a shield turns the shield red.
• If the player attacks while the shield is red, the shield buff immediately ends.
• When a red shield ends (either due to timeout or due to attacking), the player is temporarily buffed with lower melee cooldown, higher attack, and increased defense.  The attack scales logarithmically based on how much damage the player blocked with the shield.  I'll note that this scaling is a bit of a risk-reward payoff, since typically using the shield to soak a ton of damage runs the risk that some of the damage will be soaked without the shield.
• Using the rage of sparta attack just gives the player a shield (which behaves as described above.

Obviously I've provided way too much detail for a proper item description.  So I'd use a description more like this:

"Replaces ranged attack with temporary invincibility.  Player cannot attack during damage immunity, but blocking switches immunity to a massive buff.

Below is a screenshot of my Rage of Sparta setup.

I unintentionally froze the game by creating a perpetual spear generator.  This requires piercing, ricochet, magnetic spear, and a small pile of invulnerable enemies (i.e., shield enemies).  I sent a more detailed description over e-mail.

Note that I was playing 1.2; possibly this was fixed in 1.2.1 .

An option to sell unwanted blueprints for essence would be nice.

this game is really hard and not worth 1.99 USD i just got huge amounts of shield enemy’s on only day 2

Awesome game, I recommend maybe a store where you can purchase heals or any other stuff but besides that this is awesome!

Minor bug in the version launched today: If you die with a campground available, the campground remains when you retry.  The easiest way to cause this to happen is to die via damage while possessing the, "kill all enemies if you take damage with less than 20 health" item.

Feature suggestion: A "catalog" menu which displays a grid of all blueprints.  Obviously, any blueprint that has never been encountered would be filled with a question mark.

This game looks amazing! (haven't downloaded it though😭). I have a question. Is this going to stay free and when will a full game come out?

one of the best indie game i've ever played

time for constructive feedback:
-I would recommend to have the player always look towards the cursor, not only when actually attacking.
-Make the level itself more attractive. You could easily randomize some parts on the ground and put some decoration on it. That would massively improve the overall look and feel

The game mechanics themselfs feel very good. Nice fast paced game :)

Hiii, I've made a video about the game and wanted to share some feedback about it, hopefully it is useful for the development :D

-The visual style is quite good and fits very well the game.

-I really like all the gameplay mechanics that you have implemented on the game as they feel pretty solid and fun.

-I think that the game has a lot of potential and that, with some extra polish on making the game a little bit easier on the first round and some other minor tweaks, the could have an strong base to star adding some extra details and extra mechanics to make it a little bit more engaging.

In conclusion, the idea is great and I hope you keep working on it. Hopefully this is useful for the development :D, also if you could subscribe that would help me a lot :)

Regards

Minor improvement suggestions:

Collecting gold at the end of each round is tedious.  I wish any remaining gold was collecting at the end of each round.

The player's gold collection hitbox is just a little bit smaller than I'd like.  It doesn't feel comfortable. 

We can have the "claim option" ?