My favourite Steam review of Isaac: 1220+ hours played. ‘It’s OK’.
The Binding of Isaac is like reaching inside your food recycling bin on a warm day and finding a toy trumpet nestling inside. Yes, it’s a fun surprise. But it’s also crammed with rotten flesh and maggots. Yet despite being repellent, I can’t help but toot on my offal cornet and delight as festering meat flies everywhere. Isaac is so vile that the story begins to lose all meaning. And more than this, the ‘try, die, try again’ loop is so perfectly numbing that all I can think about is the next room and the promise of a power up. Yes, I sold a child’s soul to Satan. But look at my powerful tears! Doot doot! 90