Charming pixel art, interesting mechanics, great atmosphere, and a genuinely fun deck‑builder.
If you can grab it on sale for the price of a coffee, you really can’t go wrong.
Cards serve as your health — you die the moment you run out — but the game gives you several mechanics to avoid that.
Unlike most deck‑builders, you don’t choose branching paths on a map. Instead, you have a set number of steps and can decide at any moment whether to fight a normal enemy, take on an elite, trigger an encounter, or visit a shop.
Equipment is a great mechanic, though if your entire deck is built around it and you meet a specific boss, you’re basically done for.
Encounters are fun, varied, and your choices actually lead to different outcomes.
A lot of negative reviews seem to miss that the game lets you increase the difficulty.
Death is mostly harmless on low difficulty, but becomes a real threat once you raise it.
Balance is good overall. Broken combos exist — and they’re part of the fun — but you won’t be able to pull them off consistently.
RNG is handled better than in many other deck‑builders.
I’m not a big Slay the Spire fan, so I appreciate that this game is far less grindy.
As for the reviewer who finished his second run with 100% evasion — he was extremely lucky. Across 60 hours, I managed to reach 100% evasion only once — that card simply doesn’t appear often enough.
There are only two characters, with one specializing in card removal. She’s harder to play since cards are your life, but great if curse cards bother you.
This is one of the better deck‑builders out there and definitely worth trying, especially on sale.
