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The game has been mainly presented as rogue-like, dungeon crawler and Vampire Survivors-like.^[2] During the game, the player moves between different rooms to battle waves of increasing number of enemies, collecting various weapons, using the mouse cursor.^[3] The game runs in the player's desktop where the player can interact with their computer during the game process, instead of using a conventional window.^[4][5]

The game was widely described as "nostalgic" and "old-school", as the game's UI uses old Visual Basic-style sliders and buttons. Many journalists compared the game to Vampire Survivors and Rusty's Retirement.^[1][4][2] Some reviewers also stated that the game "brings to life childhood fantasies of turning a computer desktop into a playground".^[6][2]