Across the Obelisk

Absolutely insane, Paradox ruining everything they touch as usual. Check it out with Stellaris or Crusader kings, what a waste of an amazing videogame. It used to be enjoyable, my favourite in a long time since Slay the spire. But now all you see is really overpriced DLCs at every corner of the game, you can't enjoy a simple run without being smacked in the face with Ads to unlock new characters and maps by paying ridiculous prices

I love this game its not by any means bad, but it was ruined by greed and very overpriced and invasive DLC.

The new dlc introduces a steep price tag, a huge powercreep, a noticeable clash in art and arbitrary design decisions that don't mesh well with what the game had so far. If this is the intended way forward for this game I can't recommend this to anyone

Loved the game before Paradox took over with it's aggressive DLC strategy.

How am I suppose to convince friends to get this when there's over $100 dollars in dlc? Had a blast playing this during and before the Wolf Wars, but there's no way I can recommend this game with what its become over the years.

Let me echo the thoughts of the bulk of players who used to love this game. Main piece of advice - Do NOT buy this game!! The 'Why' It was a satisfying play through before it was butchered by insidiously embedded DLCs and characters. It's not just how they are overpriced, they are forced w./ little value added. They completely ruined vanilla game experience by blocking your routes to force purchase. Don't get me wrong I happily buy DLCs to support a developer, but these are basically micro transactions in the guise of a DLC. There is no way to avoid them. There are prompts when you open the game, prompts in character selections and then, the most egregious, it adds blocks throughout your game. There is no way to prevent this. The cherry on top? - it's keeps increasing your base games size w/ no value added. In short, the only time this game would be worth purchasing is if you could get it, and all of it's garbage DLC, at 90% off. The only reason I wrote this review is because pre-greed, this game was a personal favourite. All 72 of my hours are before sludge they call content.

I like this game. I like this game a lot. I think it's very very fun. The surface level design of this game is very easy to engage with but there's tons of content to unlock, mechanics to play around with, builds to create, and strategies that you can employ. It is the perfect example of being simple on the surface but very fun once you learn it, and the multiplayer is very engaging and actually feels like the other players are involved in the game (rather than other multiplayer card games where it sorta just feels like 4 people are all doing the same thing.) But holy crap Paradox is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ greedy when it comes to monetizing this game it's crazy. Five bucks for a [i]singe[/i] character. Five bucks for [b]character skins.[/b] The more expansive DLCs cost [b]as much as the base game[/b] despite adding a [b][i]fraction[/i][/b] of the content of the original game. I think this game is genuinely a blast and is genuinely worth playing, but if you're looking for a fun card game roguelike to play with your friends... Play Slay the Spire 2, as it's much more easily accessible. If you're looking for a singleplayer card game roguelike... play Slay the Spire 2. There are so many games that while they lack the mechanical depth of Obelisk, they do not have such an egregious price tag attached. It feels genuinely bad to give this game a negative review as I think it's very well-made, but you can pay $100 for all the DLC for this game or you can just take Slay the Spire 2 out of the box and have an arguably better experience overall despite STS2 still being in Early Access.

This game was my favorite deckbuilder until Paradox got a hold of it and they started pumping out crazy amounts of DLC.