When comparing Hades vs WazHack, the Slant community recommends Hades for most people. In the question“What are the best roguelikes/roguelites on PC?” Hades is ranked 30th while WazHack is ranked 32nd.
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Pros
Pro Excellent gameplay, interwoven with story
Pro The most variety you'll ever get out of a roguelike
The amount of different builds you can do with each weapon aspect and boon is limitless, plus the game will always keep you interested by expanding the story with each death or victory.
Pro Different story experience, depending on player actions
Pro Offers an impressive amount of variety in items and monsters, which keeps the experience fresh
Over 300 items and 130 monsters, WazHack offers a lot of variety that will take a lot of play throughs to experience.
Pro Unique twist on roguelike gameplay where the game takes a side-scrolling approach
A 3D rendered side-scrolling roguelike, makes for some very unique mechanics, thanks to not being top down like many traditional roguelikes. While it will still have the player progress in randomly generated dungeons, exploring for new items and gear, the battle mechanics will be more akin to side scrolling platforming.
Pro Surprising depth
Many approaches and strategies are viable in a simple shell.
Pro Controller support
Cons
Con Wide variety at first, but then becomes very repetitive
Con Very fast gameplay
Con Costs money to get the full experience
The game asks to spend money on each character type separately to go deeper than 300 feet; cost about $1 each.
Con Some quirks with control scheme and interface
Some specific action in the game are hard to pull off with touch screen, causing the player to move when trying to open menus.
Con Somewhat crude art-style
Graphics are reminiscent of freeware games from the early 2000's.