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Sephiria
- Developed by
- TEAM HORAY
- Published by
- TEAM HORAY
$17.99
Save Bunnyville from a doomed fate: a top-down action/RPG roguelite from the makers of Dungreed. Explore the depths of the tower, collect and upgrade artifacts, and defeat hordes of demons to keep your village safe.
Consensus
A79.2/100
Steam players94.5% positiveVery Positive12,970 reviews
Metacritic ↗Users: 8.5/10
VG Insights estimate ↗≈674K copies · ≈$7M gross
What creators say
What players say
A top-down pixel-art action roguelite from Team Horay (makers of Dungreed) where you play a bunny defending Bunnyville, building power by fitting artifacts and tablets into a Tetris-like inventory grid, with up to 4-player online co-op.
Sephiria is received as one of the best recent action roguelites: the local Steam snapshot shows about 12,970 reviews at 94.5% positive (Very Positive), and the Steam store page showed an Overwhelmingly Positive rating earlier (97% of roughly 2.9k reviews), so sentiment has cooled slightly as the audience widened at 1.0. Players and critics praise the inventory-puzzle build system, big weapon/costume variety, pixel art and co-op. The two Metacritic critic reviews are 90 (TheSixthAxis) and 83 (This Is Game). Complaints cluster around netcode and disconnect-loses-the-run in multiplayer, artificial pacing gates, boss design that pushes evasion builds, and repetitiveness after many hours. It left Early Access (April 2025) for a full release on July 31, 2026, and some fans felt little was added between the last EA build and 1.0.
Players love
- The inventory-management build system (placing artifacts/relics around tablets and talismans in a grid) is called unique and addictive; several reviewers describe optimizing the grid as the core puzzle of the game
- Large variety of weapons (6 main weapon types, each with 50+ upgrades that change how it plays), costumes with unique stats and set bonuses, and artifacts gives many viable, distinct builds
- Snappy, responsive combat with a wide range of archetypes (tank, greatsword, bomber, frost, lightning, meteor mage)
- Clean, expressive pixel art and cute character designs; boss music and chill soundtrack are singled out
- Smooth progression curve: weapons, artifacts and unlocks are introduced gradually, with very wide meta-progression and plenty of secrets to unlock
- Co-op for up to 4 is seen as well balanced and a standout feature for playing with a partner or friends; you can leave a co-op run and return to your own village
- Strong quality-of-life features such as loadout preferences and control over favored item spawn rates, plus multiple difficulty levels
- Large amount of content and polish with a charming story and lots of care from a small studio; players report hundreds of hours
Common complaints
- Multiplayer netcode: delay-based and server-priority hit registration makes dodging unreliable for clients, especially at 100+ ping; many negative reviews are purely about this
- A disconnect or host drop ends the run for everyone with no rejoin and no mid-run save, which can waste an hour or more; it also happens on LAN for some players
- Progress can be lost on game crashes, reported by some players including on Linux
- Boss design: large unavoidable-feeling attacks, unclear telegraphs, long invulnerable phases, and one boss with a screen-wide tentacle barrage that some find annoying or unfair
- No epilepsy or photosensitivity warning and no flashing-reduction toggle despite a newer chapter 3 boss with map-wide flashing attacks; raised repeatedly by affected players and their friends
- Some reviewers find combat shallow or hollow (one-button combos) and enemy rooms either too easy early or visual damage-soup late
- Story is called over-the-top or cliche by some, and cutscenes/dialogue get skipped; boss cutscenes are repetitive when retrying
- Localization quality issues (for example a Russian reviewer rates the current translation about 4/10)
Can feel tedious
- Runs get long (an hour or more for some) and the constant inventory shuffling plus fast-travel backtracking through non-continuous map paths pads the time
- Repetition after roughly 20+ hours: players settle into one build and have little reason to vary it because the game is easy once core synergies click
- Padding in progression: extra runs demanded per chapter and slow meta unlocks feel like a grind
- Late-game boss fights described as bosses spamming hard-to-avoid attacks; the final boss can kill in one attack and delete an hour or two of progress
- Evasion is widely seen as mandatory, which flattens build diversity at the top end
What's unique
- The Tetris-like inventory grid where artifact placement next to tablets and talismans is the main source of power, comparable by one reviewer to a Materia or Attache Case system
- Deep roguelite meta-loop with a village (Bunnyville) and story chapters gated behind repeated runs
- Weapon upgrade system where anvil upgrades make the same weapon play like a different one
- Costumes that act as class-like set bonuses (evasive cat, big-inventory fox, fast white wolf, scholar lizard) with trade-offs
- Co-op where main story progression belongs to the session host while you can still return to your own village
- Dungreed-style synergy ideas expanded into the central build mechanic, presented in cute bunny-themed pixel art
Players want
- Add rejoin/reconnect and a mid-run save or checkpoint for multiplayer and crashes; several reviewers suggest a save point after the first boss
- Move to client-side hit detection or rollback-style netcode so non-hosts are not penalised
- Add an epilepsy warning and a flashing-effects toggle, plus other accessibility options such as OLED-friendly text colors and a way to disable hold-to-continue prompts
- Rebalance evasion/defense builds and healing scarcity so tanking and offensive builds are viable; tune boss telegraphs and invulnerability phases
- Reduce the artificial progression gates (some chapters require extra runs for small lore rewards) and speed up meta-progression and rewards for winning runs
- Improve translations and add more post-1.0 content (players noted little changed between Early Access and release); a voting system for which floor to take in co-op was also suggested
Summarised from Steam reviews and community discussion.
Steam tags
MultiplayerAction RoguelikeInventory ManagementRogue-litePixel GraphicsRogue-likeTop-DownFantasyCuteProcedural Generation
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Tier list Part 4 (2025)
Sephiria is a top-down action roguelike dungeon crawler from the makers of Dungreed, currently in early access. Its hook is an inventory-placement system where artifacts and item positions power up your build rather than traditional leveling. He loves the adventure feel, story, weapon variety, pre-run customization and music. He calls it a hidden gem deserving more attention, placing it at the top of A tier with S potential if balance and content improve.
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