An energy system doesn’t make sense on a game like this…
Seems to be a greedy move 🤦♂️
The animations are okay, I wasn’t expecting anything extravagant.
Okay so yes, this game is VERY similar to Slay The Spire, as I’m sure many reviews will tell you. The deck is essentially the Ironclad, with a few unique cards that change things up a little. In addition to that though, even the encounters are similar. Down to the 3 identical enemies that all start with one count of the buff that makes you immune to debuffs. There are a LOT of similarities, but I’m giving it 4 stars because I love Slay The Spire, and I love the differences in this game. I’ll sort the following thoughts into pros and cons.
Pros:
- Awesome progression. The idea of collecting shards that allow you to permanently increase the power of cards and relics to fight increasingly difficult enemies is a great idea. After a Slay The Spire run, you just play again. This game lets you power up in a meaningful way, and go back in even stronger, which I love.
- Great performance. I haven’t encountered any of the freezing or crashes other people are reporting. The game runs well, has decent animation, and overall has great performance.
Cons:
- If you’re looking for something different from Slay The Spire, don’t get this game. It’s very close lol. Lack of originality could be a con for some people, so I’m putting that here.
- Invisible calculations. There are a lot of modifiers in this game. If my basic attack does 9 damage, but my sword attacks do 15% more damage, and the enemy I’m fighting is exposed, the card still says 9 damage. The card may very well display the new damage number I’ll do when I drag it up to the enemy, but once I do so, the card shrinks down to a size at which I can’t see it at all. In a game that’s so tailored towards creating a game-breaking build and synergizing to get either a lot of damage, or a lot of block, I can’t see at all what I’m doing until I’ve done it. Would love to see that fixed.
Overall, I’m loving the game, but as most others, it could be better.
This is an absolute CLONE of Slay the Spire. The cards are complete copies of the Ironclad but with different names. This isn’t an inspiration but a rip off. Just because you may add one extra mechanic or relic to the game does not mean it’s inspired by. Take the extra mechanic/relic and go make a mod for Slay the Spire. Disgusting that anyone would even review this and try to pretend.
So for starters the devs have miscatagorized their game, at best it’s a rougelite as it has a heavy reliance on its meta progression and barely any on your own strategy and deck building ability
This comes from a lack of real variety of cards and the like, heck while I like the idea of the system it’s offering as it stands you’d get a better experience just booting up and card based rougelike on the marketplace
Fun game, fair balance, options to pay, but why would you ever do that?
It started out fine but as someone else said it just randomly stopped letting me play cards and it happened more then once. The only thing it would let me do is end my turn and that makes it impossible to play
I like the game, it’s a lot like slay the spire, but the control mechanics are a problem. I started playing got through about 3 stages, then the game wouldn’t allow me to play anymore cards. I was stuck halfway through killing hobgoblin on the 3rd stage.
This is a great STS inspired game, I wouldn’t even call it a clone as there’s a lot of familiarity with some added originality. Could use more cards, content, and characters, but maybe that will come if people download and buy.
It’s a competent card game, where you build a deck of cards. With Attack, Defense, Status effects… And go through the dungeons fighting things, it’s only the start of the game, but I feel like defense cards are kinda useless right now as it is… they will probably become more important later.
All in all the game is nice. I just wish there was more characters, and you didn’t have to play as this guy… just a nitpick nothing really that important just wish there was different characters.
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