Noita is quite an interesting game. On its own, its pixelated aesthetic but solid physics make it an attractive game to begin exploring. it's mildy challenging and confusing at first, but even though it makes the first runs frustrating and monotonous, once you find the path you should be going and the way the spell crafting works, in a couple of hours you'll already be praying to find trigger spells and modifiers to either make your favourite synergy of a shotgun that fires dynamite or discover new ones, like orchestrating a gigantic explosion on your own by creating a cloud of flammable gas by transorming water into acid or bathing the monsters in oil before shooting a fireball. The levels/biomes with all sorts of different materials make every spell potentially more useful or a little more limited as well, for example: Levels filled with liquids or metallic tiles will allows you to do much more crowd control if you have spells that create electric charges, but will make digging with explosives almost an impossible task. Varied enemies also make every area much more distinctive and present their own opportunities at tricking them into a quick, clever death or using their projectiles to your advantage (and potential demise too!).
Where the game already presents lots of depth with endless combinations of magical projectiles, casting patterns, modifiers and bonuses, mods have made the experience even more unique. Sure, you could cheat and get yourself a mod that erradicates the shuffled casting wands have or by making you OP in different ways, but there are plenty of mods that add lots of new spell effects, enemies, that slightly tinker with the alogrithm to create new biomes or improve the current ones, or that randomize your starting loadout even more.
The few things I can point negatively about this game are that you'll end up reading a wiki to discover Noita has a small bit of hidden lore you'll easily mistake by breadcrumbs of in-game triviality and that the same environment will usually backfire if you're not careful when making your way through, which could sometimes look miles more punishing than what it should be.
All in all, Noita is a game that is pretty, deep, entertaining, hard and that can even end up slightly addicting if you have a particularly strong curiosity, and all is very well boosted by the mods workshop has at your disposal. Noita gets a solid 9/10 from me

Noita is quite an interesting game. On its own, its pixelated aesthetic but solid physics make it an attractive game to begin exploring. it's mildy challenging and confusing at first, but even though it makes the first runs frustrating and monotonous, once you find the path you should be going and the way the spell crafting works, in a couple of hours you'll already be praying to find trigger spells and modifiers to either make your favourite synergy of a shotgun that fires dynamite or discover new ones, like orchestrating a gigantic explosion on your own by creating a cloud of flammable gas by transorming water into acid or bathing the monsters in oil before shooting a fireball. The levels/biomes with all sorts of different materials make every spell potentially more useful or a little more limited as well, for example: Levels filled with liquids or metallic tiles will allows you to do much more crowd control if you have spells that create electric charges, but will make digging with explosives almost an impossible task. Varied enemies also make every area much more distinctive and present their own opportunities at tricking them into a quick, clever death or using their projectiles to your advantage (and potential demise too!). Where the game already presents lots of depth with endless combinations of magical projectiles, casting patterns, modifiers and bonuses, mods have made the experience even more unique. Sure, you could cheat and get yourself a mod that erradicates the shuffled casting wands have or by making you OP in different ways, but there are plenty of mods that add lots of new spell effects, enemies, that slightly tinker with the alogrithm to create new biomes or improve the current ones, or that randomize your starting loadout even more. The few things I can point negatively about this game are that you'll end up reading a wiki to discover Noita has a small bit of hidden lore you'll easily mistake by breadcrumbs of in-game triviality and that the same environment will usually backfire if you're not careful when making your way through, which could sometimes look miles more punishing than what it should be. All in all, Noita is a game that is pretty, deep, entertaining, hard and that can even end up slightly addicting if you have a particularly strong curiosity, and all is very well boosted by the mods workshop has at your disposal. Noita gets a solid 9/10 from me