The Vagrant

It must have yet again been the boatloads of positive reviews that caused me to try a 4€ game where all female characters have breasts the size of their heads. It wasn't as bad as it could have been though. The Vagrant was in fact not some sort of weird pseudo-porn game, but a reasonably good RPG... for its price point, that is.

The entire thing lasts for <10 hours, and I feel like whoever made this set out to make a game, fill some checkboxes, and call it a day. Like, sure, we have varying equipment, upgrading, decent combat, a skill tree, some cooking + potion buff system, an interconnected map, a story, etc., but it all feels pretty "meh" at best, rather bad at worst. I couldn't really highlight anything good about the game, and I find it lacks polish. To name some examples:

• Everything drops coins or other pickups, but they often fly past you before you can pick them up, meaning you have to run back for each thing you kill/destroy. This is annoying.
• You can knock monsters down. They are then invulnerable to damage until they get themselves up, forcing you to just sit there and wait. This is annoying.
• The map and story connections are just all over the place. I know I have a bad sense of direction, but I have no idea what links where or how, and they both have me completely lost with their spontaneous transitions.
• Some systems like cooking are rather useless, and you can just not use them without impacting the game.
• Possibly a design choice, but the art and animations feel way too much like paper cutouts with hinges. I know that's a sizeable half of what 2D animation is, but you're supposed to try to hide that.

So, yeah, there's definitely loads of better RPGs (and metroidvanias, if you think it looks more like one) out there. I could only maybe suggest it if your time isn't worth much and the price calls to you. Me, I care about my time, less so for my money, and it's not worth the former.
No recommendation.