Man... This was an unexpected gem I found when i googled "terraria roguelike" just out of curiosity.
This is amazing! Perfect! No notes!
I had a few runs end early, but when I finally got a good run going, I was met with an unexpected level of polish, clarity and balance! Every new item was very exciting, and I was quickly able to learn that some items will actually make things worse for me, and just throw them away.
Now I was finding it pretty neat until I got to the moon lord level, the long hallway stood out as a weird design decision, but I just assumed it was to build hype to the final boss. I found the use of the pillars very clever, and the moon lord fight was just challenging enough to be a nice final boss fight to end things off, but then the brain flew away, and then I saw a timer on top of the screen, and suddenly the long hallway finally made sense. I kept anxiously backtracking through each level with a genuine smile on my face. Excited to see what awaited me, the final boss batle was incredible, it felt very cool and the very challenging, but not too much. Just enough to make it feel just right as the "true" final boss battle.
I stayed through the whole credits, listening to the music and taking that experience in. This was unexpectedly incredibly amazing!
If this mod, as is, had original assets, I would happily pay $5 or more on it, but if it was developed further and had a larger variety of starting gear, maybe some unlockables, This would be *easily* good enough for a $15 or $20 game. Just amazing.
This had me jealous as a gamedev that I had never thought of some of this stuff.
To whoever created this, this is incredible, I genuinely hope you pursue game development further.
Thanks for the mod!!