The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Amazing game, your ass will burn right after you die in a mom boss room when you had a hard run :)

This was my first steam purchase over 10 years ago and I still play this game to this day. It is one of the best rogue-lites ever developed and made even better by the constant support from the dev team. My heart still races when I encounter some of the final bosses as they've done a great job with balancing the game over the years. 11/10. Get rid of spiked chests tho.

Amazing game can be frustrating with so much luck involved and if you just have bad luck as a person but its so rewarding when you do have a great run and unlock that next section

@NotAlbino you little maggot, you made me buy this game with your gamebreaking rigs. It's f**king unfair-hard game, i will become back my money, i hope you will in your next time a dog (with dementia) on the chocolate farm you maggot

The binding of isaac is one of those games that I had known about for ages. By the time I picked it up, I knew what to expect. Except it turned out I didn't. At first everything felt just like any other roguelite, a pool of items, some special things nice, but nothing new.

Then devil/angel deals started appearing.

then i thought i beat the game.

Then i found out i was only 1/_0 done with the game.

Then i found out that not only where there post mother bosses, but there where a__n_t_ _nd___s

Then i found out that...... i could go on like this for a long time, because i found out enough for the game to last me almost 200 hours. Thats without going for extra achievements (albeit i still went for challenges).

Thats while using the wiki to plan routes and strategies.

And even after all that, I still managed to get blown away when because after 180 hours, d___p___ made the game feel completely different.

+Isaac is a cheap game for what your getting, even at 60$ its really cheap. This thing is MASSIVE.

+Isaac has an incredible story

+many items completely change the game, and there are limitless combinations to use.

+the art is really neat, i love the pixel art, and some of the bosses just blew my mind away, again you can get to late game, and you will be absolutely shocked by what awaits you if you get the full version.

-my only issue was how confusing it was to do the story, without the wiki I wouldve gotten lost really fast.

In general I recommend isaac, there is no reason to avoid getting this game. All around its a stunning piece of work, and deserves massive praise.

Is this the most entertaining game, I have played? No. It is not. But it is certainly entertaining. And most important is that a "run" only takes so much time. There's natural checkpoints to get back to life. And the game will have evolved next time, because of the vast amount of unlocks, which keeps the game from getting boring.
5/7 would recommend.

This is the best game I've ever played, saying that while writing a negative review is ironic I know however there is a problem that just happened to me halfway through my save file. I'm not sure what I did but I must have closed out of the game improperly recently and now all of my steam achievements have vanished. I'm not sure if there's anything I can do to change this other than redoing them on another file but if someone could help me I'd gladly change my negative review.

Ended up buying this game for myself after buying the first Binding of Issac and Rebirth for my partner as these were some of his favorite games. He ended up getting me interested in these games as well and I bought this one and all dlc so I could play online and its honestly been fun with repentance plus! Would recommend for just base game alone as you can do local multiplayer and have fun that way (though it is different without dlc), but dlc is constantly being fixed and updated along with repentance plus. Nothing is ever really the same between runs and as you play more, you get more characters you can unlock to change up the gameplay that much more and even cool challenges you can try by yourself or with friends. Be warned there's still issues with lag on online lobbies with repentance plus, but it is constantly getting better in my experiences so far.

While this game is fun, its just not AS fun as many of the other games in its genre. The animations and everything about the game are just fine! fun to look at even. There were however some mechanics to the game that I just didn't enjoy. The turds were too tough. The 'upgrades' were not very substantial sometimes. And acquiring a build was entirely left to RNG. I 'beat the game' after a matter of 3 hours but that was only because I got a couple of ridiculously strong upgrades that just happened to synergize. The lack of a choice make the only way to play just blasting through as fast as you can to acquire some kind of wild build that actually works and dying about 50 times before each good run. Again, a decent entry into the genre and fun artwork but I prefer a game that has more strategy and choice involved in my runs. I'm sad to give it a 6/10.

isaac has been a part of me for every chapter of my life. i always come back to it or more precisely, it always comes back to me. at my lowest and at my highest, isaac has been the backbone of my being. im afraid without it, i wouldnt have been able to type this right now. really thankful for edmund and the team for bringing us this gem of a game. isaac has been the perfect stand in for me, as of typing this right now im in the rebirth journey of my life. and hopefully just like isaac, i can find peace with myself and have the strength to shape my story just like in repentance.

10/10
Would get just Rebirth then get DLC's when you like it and REP+ is free and does QoL changes and Co-op

Bro this is the best game if you have a toaster PC, nah but for real they don't actually make games like this anymore like what the hell, it's so simple let so addicting this game has been around for years and to this day it still gets supported that's insane nowadays games are one hit wonders they come out, shine for a year and just die off completely, similar to today's music, i highly recommend this game to anyone that wants to feel the 2000s style again, this game is a pure example of not judging a book by it's cover, don't get fooled by the graphics, yes it looks dated but who the heck cares the graphics don't make the game it's the mechanics of the game the pure skeleton that makes the game, love it.

Game good
insane replay value and just one of my personal favorite games since i first found it when afterbirth + came out

I died from the last boss attack and kill him 1 sec before that, game choose to fuck me and dont count this and this is not first time, this game can f**k you like no other games 10/10

The Binding of Isaac is a really deep game when it comes to item synergies and what feels like millions of possible builds. Each item you pick up has the potential to change the way you play, like one might replace your regular tears with lazers or one makes you throw up big green explosive bombs, that do very high damage, but can also damage you, giving you a high risk, high reward play style. With around 700 different types of items to pick up and use, it offers a lot of variety to play with.

And the game offers many different types of characters to play as, all with a unique and distinct play styles. One might be all about getting hit on purpose to build up damage for the remaining floor you are in while one is the complete opposite, and only gives you one hit before you go down, with the upside of flight and tears that can travel through rocks and obstacles, as well as an unique dice item, giving you a potential re roll of the item you might not wanna take, with the downside of it sometimes deleting the item. Its like gambling in a way, you will do that a lot in the game. Take risks that pay off, but also might backfire on you

What i also like is the way achivements are tied to actual useful things. Each achivement you gain actually unlocks something new for you to find, like a new character, new floors, new paths to take and most importantly, new item unlocks. The achivement system is a good way to keep track off, what you might need to unlock next.

The one small negative i have to give is the game its the type of game you need a friend or a youtube guide to understand what to even do to unlock certain bosses or items. Its very cryptic and confusing if you dont understand it, but once you know, its easy to hop into the game and plan ahead where you want to go in your run, which boss you are working towards and so on.

Overall a highly recommended game, if you still are unsure if you like it, buy the regular game game Rebirth without the dlc, try it out and if you like it, buy all the dlc. (small warning, you might have problems with converting the save from the rebirth to newest repentance + DLC, so if you want to avoid it, you could also just buy everything all at once. Its worth it and you get 200+ hours out of it)

Tons of content. Addicting gameplay loop. Lots of moddability.

You run around as a naked midget spitting at people. You eventually meet a chick but she's trying to stomp you down because she hates people under 170cm, but she violently screams and hides away if you pretend to be a Jehovah's witness.
Despite having "binding" in game's title, there is no shibari set in the entire dungeon.
Also I wasn't able to find a garbage plant because there is no bovine transformation, either. I think Steven lied to me…

This is one piece of trash. You should play it.

Best traumatic childhood simulator!

This game has a really unique artstyle and has tons of content through the dlcs. Every Run is different and Binding of Isaac never fails to suprise and challenge me. In addition to that you can really see the developers have put their heart in this game and created a really fun game.
With Friends this game is even more enjoyable.

All in all do yourself a favor and go beat Mommy!

10/10

My name is Edmund
I made the Isaac
It was difficult to put the items together
But unfortunately something went so wrong
And now i cant do anything but sing this stupid song
My name is Edmund Edmund Edmund Edmund

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

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tons of replay value and each run is around 30-40 minutes so its a pretty fire way to pass the time when you're busy but got a little time to burn 9/10

This is great game, it really is. Unfortunately Tyrone,the executive producer, supports A.I and while he isn't the creator, I hope that post he made will get him fired.

And send us Dead God badge for compensation pretty please.

It took me FOREVER to defeat mom but the game mixed up every round. Sometimes you got trash but sometimes you got the perfect setup. This game does take time and skill but in the long run this game is a 10/10 no question. ;)

Quality game. High level of difficulty, but you get better as you play so just gotta stick with it for a bit

"Dead, rotting child in a chest dreaming about a horrid basement" simulator. Got to love creativity of games and the absurd amount of content this game has about a dying child :3

Highly recommend if you love roguelikes with a lot of replayability and synergies, because ohh boy... this game is probably the best when it comes to stuff like that. It's hard to top it.

usually when i play this its with a gun to my head because i dont know anyone who isn't diagnosed with at least one mental illness who plays this but overall its a very wholesome game for the entire family about issac's mom just not quite understanding him and going on a lovely adventure together and learning the true meaning of family after they find issacs long lost twin. too much poop though

To say The Binding of Isaac hasn't been a big part of my life would be an enormous understatement.

At the time of writing this I have achieved Dead God with 970 hours on steam and I promised myself that I would write a review of how impactful it was to me. No matter how unorganized it may be. I found out about Isaac from two Youtubers. Northenlion and Bisnap. I watched Northenlion for Super Meat Boy and Bisnap for Spelunkey. None of their playlist compared to the number of episodes they made for the Original Binding of Isaac. I was HOOKED. The game's art style was infections that a young me would draw the characters on sticky notes to make them stand up, I didn't stop there In 6-8th grade I'd draw them next to the notes I'd write for Social Studies, Science, and Language Arts. I bought Rebirth according to steam on:Jan 31, 2015 and also bought Isaac on the PS-Vita, My Phone,and Nintendo Switch. I played the HECK outta rebirth it is a major upgrade from flash. I'd download mods so I could reskin them beacuse I had no idea how to extract the sprites from the game nor did I know that was even a thing at the time. I only had ms paint so when I did reskin them they would always have a white background which lead me down to finding paint-dot-net a program that I still use to this very day! Anyway I think that's all I wanted to say about Isaac that I can think about on the top of my head. Lastly I'd like to thank Edmund and his team over at Nicalis! Thanks for reading my messy ""review"" of The Binding of Isaac.

Beware : this game is a legal drug !!! you can easily become an addict, so play with care

The game story/lore is really dark btw but that's peak

great indie game that's been alive for about 15 years+. wish they would push out updates more for repentance + but i understand they're working on their new game.

Very addicting! Ever since I got the Steam Deck, I've been playing nothing but this game until my hands hurt.

I'm not usually into rogue likes, but once you start a run in Isaac, and even if you get a bad start, you have this desire to keep going just to see what happens next. You might get an item that completely changes your run. There are so many items with a lot of surprising and fun synergies/interactions between them! Not just the items themselves, but the combination of what you choose to do with those set of items, the consumables you currently have, your current health, the different types of rooms, your character, etc. can drastically impact your game. So, it's surprisingly deep and very engaging. It's not a braindead "shoot enemies, don't get hit, and get items" experience.

Basically you're constantly getting into high risk but high reward situations, and you can't help but go, "FUCK IT LET'S GO!" A a rush of dopamine get sent in the brain when you win that gamble. When you lose, you're not even mad. It's still fun.

So many unlocks! There's so much content and always something to work towards.When you unlock new items or characters, you have even more synergies and possibilities to all of your future runs! The "Challenge" runs are also very fun where you are put in thematic gimmicky runs that not only provides more unlocks when you complete them, but also a nice change of pace from the regular game.

I recommend with all the DLCs for the full experience.

If there's an uncontested face on the roguelike Mt. Rushmore, it's The Binding of Isaac (Repentance). It is genre defining in many aspects and still a good game even if you have nothing to compare it to. I've often seen the game described as an ungraceful and messy game that's fun anyways, but I think that's only true as far as Edmund's delightful habit of trolling his player base goes. In most regards, what makes Isaac timeless is the fact that many of its mechanics are simple but provide endless room for the most defining trait of any good video game: ZANINESS.

Almost every character in Isaac has a simplistic, projectile-based basic attack that can undergo any ridiculous set of modifiers from the game's ludicrous item count. It can do anything from carpet bombing bosses to shooting jelly donuts that fly outside the bounds of the map and then wrap around to shooting reflective bullets that hurt you. It is simple, it's funny, it's timeless. The less appreciated aspect of Isaac is the resource game, to me. Isaac is uniquely interesting as a roguelike because it offers a way to utilize every type of resource the game offers you in a plethora of ways. Cards, health, bombs, keys, coins, all of them have a plethora of use cases and Isaac offers perhaps the most proactive options for Risk vs Reward to try and control the outcome of your runs I've seen in any game. Maybe not the most effective - Isaac still feels uniquely privy to just terrible runs in a way that many other Roguelikes you can rock a >90% winrate on don't have, but to me that's not a bug, it's just a feature. Getting Bob's Brain as The Lost is a hazing ritual all of us have to go through.

There's plenty else to appreciate. Isaac's aesthetic is often off-putting to newcomers, but kind of charming in its cartoony and grotesque way, and many items and bosses from this game have become famous for a legitimate funny or cool factor that you can't dispute. The game is ripe with unlockables - frankly, too many of the fucking things, but you can unlock everything relevant to accessing all the major parts of the game fairly easy and after that it's an enjoyable game to slowly chip away and and accumulate a wealth of funny items and modifiers to the game.

The only real critiques of Isaac I feel as though I could possibly make all stem at earlier expansions which made a lot of flawed or weird choices, but most of the serious ones are addressed or optional by the current state of the game with Repentance. Honestly, as far as actual options for this game go, either Vanilla or Repentance are very enjoyable, so whatever you get you're in for a time that's worth recommending the game to me.

had 250 hours in this game and it came out with an online mode. i wanted to play it so i signed up for the beta. backed up my game as well. flash forward to now. lost all notepad progress, lost anything showing me what ive done. how am i supposed to remember what ive beaten with who. and to make it worse the videos ive looked up to get it back tell me to go into something i dont even have. and now i cant even use online mode anymore. hate this game which is sad because i used to enjoy it. seeing that blank notepad makes me want to never play it again

Fun game. Every run feels like a brand new game.

One of the things I love the most is how, by the end of each run, the items make my character look like the most miserable toddler in human history, fitting.

Man where to start...

The Binding of Isaac seems to be a pretty classic game - i wouldn't know though, having not played it. However, there is something I can comment on here, and that is the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. After a quick look at some gameplay of the older version, this game, no pun intended, is a godsend.

Not only is the base game great, but for around $50 Australian, you essentially get an entire revamp of the games mechanics, tons of brand new items, features, bosses and endings. The replayability of this game simply cannot be overstated. As someone whom, at the time of writing is probably about a 3rd of the way through, I must say I am so impressed with this game. The sheer amount of just... Stuff is so insane. The game takes 100s of hours to complete, and from what i know is made by a small developer.

Initially, I must admit I did not like this game. As someone who plays a lot of competitive games, all the luck based features annoyed me, but I have now grown to love them. That feeling of getting a gold in counter strike is replaced by getting Brimstone or any of the Seraphim items. This game is truly a work of art. Great story, and great gameplay. I have enjoyed my many ours playing, and cannot wait to siink in many more hours.

Incredible amounts of very polished content even without DLC (though I would recommend getting all of them). Incredibly chaotic and guaranteed to keep you occupied for a hundred hours. It also tells you absolutely nothing, would recommend using the External Item Descriptions mod. Still, if you like experimenting and figuring things out on your own, there's plenty for you here, and if you don't, you've already looked up the wiki.

In conclusion: It's fucking bad this trash game

Never thought running around while crying and sh1tting everywhere could be so much fun

This is a classic and I heavily recommend this game to anyone.
Playing with controller usually is a better experience.

i dont play demonic azael i play christian azael by only doing angel deals also game is torcher and i would rather go be a cow on a trash farm instead of doing the solar system challenge

PS funky tumors bully you
PS fun
PS flys are really good
PS please take little brimstone out of devil deal i wanna be christian azael with lil brimstone
PS dont create game unless u wanna be a cow on trash farm
PS like this game
PS uhhhhhhhhh i dont know what to write anymore
PS the trash farm is coming run

This is one of my favorite games as every run is different.
There are so many items and synergys for the items.

Definitivamente um dos melhores jogos roguelike de todos. O jogo casa perfeitamente com a brincadeira e a religião, tendo personagens como Azazel, judas, Lazarus e outros de referência religiosa.
Isac é um ótimo jogo, mas realmente acho que se você quer ter A MELHOR experiência com ele, compre junto das dlcs.

this game is a great introduction to dungeon crawling games, although there is 3 DLC's with the game it's not forced to play the game, the DLC's just add's even more content to its already massive content pool like new items, new bosses, new endings and lets you download mods EXC. i haven't even finished the game and i'm only about 35% done might even be less that's how much there is to do i can not but recommend this game worth every penny

From the humble beginnings of a flash game to mass popularity.

Amazingly well thought out game with very passionate devs. Lots of items and synergies to explore and endless amount of runs to have fun with. The progression is nice with a good amount of difficulty, along with being a great time killer.

Definitely one of my highest rated games I've played, anyone who loves indie games and rouge-likes should give this a try. you won't be disappointed.

probably my number 1 favorite in the roguelike genre. there's so many synergies and paths you can take when you put enough time into unlocking them. and the themes of the levels and enemies are super cool too. so i enjoy playing this game on PC and my nintendo switch when i leave to go somewhere.

its a good game, ive played it to the womb on my xbox but on pc it was HELL even trying to get it open on here, i tried 3 diffrent times to get it open and they all didnt work untill the 3rd time which was DISABLING THE FREE DLC THAT I DIDNT EVEN KNOW I HAD BECAUSE THAT FREE DLC COULDN'T RUN BECAUSE IT NEED YOU TO BUY 30+ DOLLARS OF OTHER DLC FOR IT TO WORK!! so i essentially had a broken game that didnt work because of a stupid dlc....i know its not the devs fault but dude- how was i supposed to know that it automatically added a free dlc i didnt know of on here that breaks the game? good game, just steam fucking sucks times mates.

The King of Roguelikes. So many unlocks and secrets to discover, even after 400 hours. Progression feels great, and you naturally improve so much that you hardly notice the game's difficulty increasing as you get better. Great developer and community support, I don't know that this game will ever lose relevance.

Having seen how many hours some others have put in, I realise I have only reached the tip of the iceberg for this game. However, I did manage to finish it a few times and it really felt like I never saw the same item twice. Rebirth is the pinnacle of the Isaac games, where you can easily get lost in the addictive life-death cycle. If you enjoy roguelikes and haven't played this, what are you doing?!?!

Top notch. Fun game that doesn't treat you like a moron or feels the need to spoon-feed you the story.

One of the best indie games and a cornerstore of roguelikes, what more needs to be said?
This game got a grip over me ever since I was in high school and never truly let go, it has been in development for over 10 years and it shows with the insane amount of variety and content.

If you want to play Isaac for the first time I definitely recommend buying every DLC for the best experience!

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance+ is the ultimate roguelike experience. With endless replayability, insane synergies, and challenging yet rewarding gameplay, it perfects everything that made the original great. The new content adds fresh mechanics, bosses, and items that keep every run exciting. If you love roguelikes, this is a must-have. 11/10

This game is the peak definition of being brutal, difficult, and an absolute RNG-fest, but at the same time being incredibly fair.

Most of the time, you won't feel "cheated" by losing runs, as the game is naturally difficult to begin with, but unlike most other difficult games, it's actually a fair difficulty, as you can grow more powerful to match the game's difficulty 1-for-1.

I don't really like rouge-likes too much, but TBoI is a HARD exception to that rule. It's balanced, it's fair, and it's not utter BS.

Highly, highly recommended, without a shadow of a doubt.