Is Evoland any fun?

Basically the game evolution is the most fun moment. Gameplay is a bit dull and even tedious at moments (walking around the world map is a pain in the ass, you can't go more than 3 seconds without a boring random encounter).

From what I've read it's not very good as a game itself, more of an interesting look into the evolution of video games.

It's incredibly padded in some areas. If you can get past that, you'll probably have some fun with it.

The game relies on it being a nostalgia trip to work. You have to have played the old school RPGs and Action adventure games to really enjoy it. Also, ignore Metacritic, it's a terrible system that props up bad games, and destroys perfectly good games. The Haunted : Hell's Reach was utterly destroyed by this even though it's a really good and difficult co-op game.

probably not trash, but it's also extremly short, finished in a couple of hours.

80 is not a low score on metacritic. Also, I find it more helpful to look at metacritic user reviews than critic scores and deciding whether it's the game for you from there.

It's more like a nostalgic exercise for the genre. The fun parts are the gags ans resemblances with other titles (hahaha, a Diablo dungeon, hohoho, a city with 2D pre-rendered background), it's a bit dull and symplistic if you're looking for it only as a game. On the other hand, I have fun with it but I'd buy only for 3€ or similar (my case with keys) or/and if I raised playing those games.

It's fun for one run, not sure how much replayability there is. It's also pretty short and a somewhat shallow. It's more of a testament to the evolution and different styles of of RPG games and has very little back story.

I suggest you pick it up on sale if you liked Zelda/FF/Diablo games. Don't expect to be mind blown but the game pokes fun at those games it mimics and it's still entertaining.

It's good if you grew up playing 2D and 3D games RPGs from (primarily Zelda, ALTTP and FF7). If you did not, I can see it getting annoying, quickly.

Do not expect a grand storyline or even a long game. From what I remember of Sips' playthrough, it lasts no longer than a couple of hours.

This game is just a huge waste of time, fighting every few seconds in a dull random encounter. Enemies give no challange and there's barely any difference between them beside how they look. Sure, I enjoyed the game references and that kind of stuff, nothing particulary remarkable or amazing but the whole 'nostalgic trip' isn't worth the trouble in my opinion because it's too little compared to time you have to waste clicking shit that doesn't matter at all. There's no chance to loose, you don't need to think or have any kind of strategy. It's not mindless but often fun clickfest hack & slash style either (however, there's one level you play like in one, in a matter of gameplay it's just as unfun like the rest), most of the time it's pointless in jRPG style which takes additional time (oh look! Encounter! Oh look! Same animation over and over you can't skip! Oh my, you just won a battle you'd have to be brain-dead to have any trouble with, let's celebrate!). If I had to describe this game in one word, it would be annoying.

It's fun for the first 30 minutes or so, when you're getting upgrades left and right. Then you start running into the world map, where you literally get attacked every 3 steps or so. Getting from one location to another is ridiculously tedious - the random encounters were added just to lengthen the game. So essentially go get from the first cave to the town, expect at least 10 to 15 battles. This gets annoying really quickly and will never stop until you get to the end of the game.