Well it's out today. Anyone grab this like I did?
I'm enjoyed it the little I've tapped into it so far, but it does confuse me a bit too. It seems more like a procedurally generated game where you luck (good or bad) into a situation you can handle by the room really. It's very rogue like with some very thick Zelda 1 mechanics to it down to quite a few of the items and general layout which is nice.
I seem to get up on a screen there like 6 'floor' boxes and then the boss one and I can get around 4 into it before I get crushed. I've unlocked one of the characters already (forget name, he floats has -1 hearts) which was pretty cool. It seems to be more of short run in, go somewhere, die eventually and do it again thing. Or is there more after the boss that I'm missing? I like it, but also glad I'm only $35 into it too as it seems fairly priced at that level.