Into the Pit

Critic reviews

• Game Skinny

  Thomas Wilde · Nov 11, 2021

  6.0

  Its fights are fun, fast, and hyperkinetic, but because of how the game is built, they’re all over in two minutes or less. No single room in the Pit holds more than about 20 demons, and even near the start of a run, most of them are glass cannons. They’re placed to wear you down through attrition, rather than pose a genuine one-on-one threat.

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• COGconnected

  Jake Hills · Oct 30, 2021

  6.7

  Into the Pit is a well-constructed roguelike shooting game and if you’re the kind of person who hears those words and yells, “I’m sold!” then you will probably have a lot of fun. But it’s not going to make believers out of genre-skeptics.

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• Xbox Tavern

  Jamie Collyer · Oct 20, 2021

  7.9

  Old school FPS fans will be right at home here, brought in by the fast movement, impactful weaponry and the constant back-peddling and side-strafing attack methods emblematic of classic shooters. Even though I’m not generally a fan of Roguelikes by the very nature of the repetitive loop, I found myself getting very caught up in the grind here. Each run felt new and exciting, and when I was dropped a power or weapon that I liked it really got me hyped to get into the next room to use it. I think I finally get why the genre has been so popular, and I can see myself playing this for quite some time yet.

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• XboxEra

  Jesse Norris · Oct 20, 2021

  5.8

  Into The Pit has some genuine fun in it. It controls well, has a unique look, and has great potential with its rogue-lite offerings. In the end though for me, the lack of variety in multiple areas kept it from being something I could recommend except for the fact that it’s only $15 and is also on Game Pass.

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• Way Too Many Games

  Jordan Hawes · Oct 19, 2021

  8.0

  It is a nice change of pace that there isn’t a huge grind to get to anything fun, but that also means run time may be short for some. While I personally would have liked more difficulty in the portals and bosses, I also think this is a solid game to offer someone being introduced to roguelites that aren’t amazing on FPS games. Plus, it has its own unique ideas here that will make you feel like a bad ass powerful mage, and that always makes me feel happy.

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• PCInvasion

  Andrew Farrell · Oct 18, 2021

  6.5

  Although it shows promise early on, Into the Pit runs out of new tricks astoundingly quickly, leading to endless repetition and a total lack of challenge.

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