Legacy Of Evil

I did not expect a top-down shooter to make me think this carefully about who to keep in my party. Legacy of Evil, from Uruca Game Studio out of Brasilia, is a vertical scrolling arcade shooter where the whole strategic hook lives in a beautifully low-key mechanic: fallen adventurers are scattered across each stage, and touching one pulls them into your procession. Warriors, mages, priests, rogues, barbarians, paladins, bards, sorcerers, and rangers all attack simultaneously when you do, each class adding its own damage profile to the pile. A big party hits harder, but it also fills the screen and makes dodging the boss patterns feel like navigating a stampede. Trimming down is a deliberate call, and it creates tension the moment you spot that passed-out ranger in the corner. The four stages, Cemetery, Dark Forest, Killer Mountain, and Dravlo Castle, escalate in the way classic arcade games used to earn their reputation. Enemy waves move fast, and the game offers no apology for putting hazards behind you when you can only fire forward. Bosses are the real test: the projectile patterns read bullet-hell, and the party-width trade-off the game built around you suddenly becomes very urgent at those moments. It is genuinely hard. The roguelite layer, where gold gathered on a run gets spent at the Town Store on passive upgrades and drop-rate improvements between attempts, helps soften the repetition, but reviewers have flagged that upgrade costs sit high relative to the gold earned per run, so expect to grind a few loops before meaningful power shows up. The narrative is thin on purpose. Count Dravlo Stradic, a once-noble figure corrupted into a vampire tyrant, is pure genre furniture, and the game knows it. The story exists only to explain why you are walking through a cursed province with a crowd of fantasy archetypes behind you. That restraint keeps the pacing honest. There is no slow tutorial, no extended cutscene, just the opening level and the immediate question of whether you can juggle movement and party management under pressure. Local co-op is supported, and the dynamic changes noticeably with a second player sharing the chaos. Early user reception, while based on a modest sample, has tracked positive. The Steam community board shows the developer actively patching bugs, including a freeze tied to the Sorcerer's ultimate in multiplayer sessions and achievement tracking issues, which suggests a small team paying attention after launch. The main honest caveat is scope: the game reportedly runs under an hour for a clean main-story run, which puts the replay pressure squarely on the upgrade loop and the challenge of pushing for a cleaner, leaner party run. If you find the core mechanic compelling, that loop will hold. If you need narrative breadth or environmental variety beyond four stages, it will feel thin. Kai, Scout Team