The Binding of Isaac

you can very well play this game if you don't got the money for the "big deal" (repentence or simply rebirth). for only 2$ this game offers SO much, but it tends to get "repetitive" in some way..but keep playing to unlock new things. definitely recommend the full game tho. oh, and for the w.o.t.l. expansion it's also a great deal for only 3$, + I think you can get some sort of bundle which offers both of this games for a lower price. In conclusion, buy this game/bundle (which includes w.o.t.l. expansion that merely DOUBLES the game's content); but DEFINITELY BUY REBIRTH OR OTHER FULL ISAAC GAME LIKE THE REBIRTH BUNDLE (REPENTENCE....) IF YOU SEE IT ON SALE! they usually do summer or winter sales, I will personally get the big deal this summer. good luck P.S.: if you have a pretty good laptop or pc as mine..I'm sorry but IDK. this game is peak but this specific one is quite old and uses a very funky full screen format and it tends to get laggy the better your pc is..ik💀 for me it plays..decent i'd say...my friend which has a 10th gen ahh old laptop plays it smoother than mine. it could be also because I got 165HZ for a really old game maybe. just keep that in mind

Spent way too many hours crying in a basement shooting tears at flies and I regret nothing. The Binding of Isaac is one of those games that looks rough around the edges but somehow swallows your entire weekend whole. The roguelike loop is stupidly addictive, the item synergies are absolutely unhinged and dying on the last boss for the 30th time in a row genuinely builds character. Dark, weird, biblically cursed in the best way. If you enjoy being punished by RNG and still crawling back for more, this is your game. Just don't ask me to explain the lore. That said, if you haven't tried Rebirth yet, what are you doing. It takes everything here and cranks it up to eleven. This is the appetizer. Rebirth is the meal. [b][8.5/10][/b]

I wouldn't actively recommend Flash Isaac, but there are no neutral options & it's a lot more positive than negative to me. As someone with over three thousands hours and 100% completion on its remake, TBOI:Rebirth, TBOI is a fine game. It functions properly, and overall it isn't too unfamiliar coming from the remake. The game is enjoyably balanced for the most part, and has very good Flash era graphics that I personally prefer over the pixel art art direction TBOI:R takes. My main grip with this game is that a lot of rooms are seriously unfair. I'm not even talking about Eternal Edition (I'll get to it), just straight up normal rooms have layouts and enemies you literally can't do anything about unless you have flight, spectral or any sort of quick way to kill enemies and/or escape. And with how scarce dps upgrades are, it can get especially infuriating. The hitless achievements are looking horrific, and I think I might need to reset until I get a stupid op first two floors and then somehow not fumble later on. Which isn't a good look. Eternal Edition has its own set of issues, eternal enemies are not very well thought through and often lead to unfair situations. However, I have found Eternal's hard mode to be significantly easier than playing on normal mode or simply on Wrath of the Lamb. You get a lot of HP upgrades, and typically getting one damage upgrade will be enough to finish a run, as the final bosses are ridiculously easier. It's a weird balance. TBOI is very strange in that regard, sometimes extremely good sometimes horridly bad. Overall, I would recommend TBOI:R over TBOI, as the remake does right everything that Flash did wrong. I will not talk about my issues with Rebirth here I have a completely other review for that. If you come from Rebirth and are curious at how Flash plays, I'd say it'd be right up your alley. It's more Isaac afterall, who wouldn't want more Isaac? Just be aware this game is old and has poor design decisions, and thus might get frustrating or put you in unfair scenarios.