Stacy Sharp and the Night of Too Many Monsters

This game is sort of like what you'd get if you took Vampire Survivors and made it a 2D side-scrolling arena (without the scrolling), in which you run back and forth, jumping around, throwing knives at monsters, and collecting bones (the game's currency), until you dieget knocked out. During the arena part, you get level ups that let you gain new (temporary) powers and abilities.[1] You start in a tiny hub town place, to which you return when you dieget knocked out. It has a shop (which only opens after you've lasted at least 2 minutes in the arena part) that sells permanent upgrades, and there are other doors that open after you last increasing amounts of time. I've only lasted 7 minutes so far, so the only other door I've opened so far is the one to the item mixing guy. I've only played it for 35 minutes as of this post, though, says Steam.

The game is free. If it had cost even just a dollar, I probably would have just clicked Next in my discovery queue, but I'd say now that it's probably worth at least a dollar. Maybe even almost the same money as Vampire Survivors.

My only issue with the game is the weird effect that is on the text font that makes it annoying to read. It's kind of like that Zalgo shit, but not really. More like just a weird repetition/echo effect or something. Still, in any case, I wish there was an option to make the text not do that.

[1] - I could see the game becoming super easy if you lucked out and got a bunch of the power ups in a row that increase base damage and increase healing per kill, though. On the other hand, you could get unlucky and get two "choices" of the same power up that doubles your damage but sets your health to 1 (i.e. near instant deathunconsciousness, unless you have godlike reflexes or something).