
CARDIAN is the prototype of a fast-paced micro dungeon crawler, set in a colorful tabletop world of adventuring animals.
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NOTE: This is an early prototype that was released to the public. Please consider this as you play.
CARDIAN is a fast-paced micro dungeon crawler, set in a colorful tabletop world of adventuring animals.
A card-combining battle system inspired by the old-school ATB (Active Time Battle) JRPG combat and physical card games such as Star Realms.
Three varied regions to master, each with their own enemies, cards and trinkets to find!
Beautiful card artwork filled with colorful animals.
Pocket-sized adventure with a playtime of around 2 hours.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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The Good: -Fun deckbuilding/The Bazaar like gameplay -Interesting mechanics, cards, and relics -No gamebreaking bugs -As of the time of this writing, it is free! -Can replay tutorial information The Bad -A bad tutorial is better than no tutorial, however the current tutorial needs a rework, and should focus on explaining each mechanic one at a time, and check for player understanding. Player should have an example battle in camp, perhaps sparring with an ally character -Deck building UI is not great, scroll wheel does not perform as expected -Enemies talk to the player once in a location, however the text does can sometimes be off screen, sometimes a ranged enemy dodges away from you when you move towards them and says something, but since the enemy jumped far enough away, you cannot read what they said The Ugly -Some cards are bugged, the extra information that appears when hovering over a card sometimes has code or back-end strings of text such as: <sprint=12 tint=1> -Dev/version text floating in the middle of the screen Final Thoughts Quite a fun game, I enjoyed it for a few rounds but found the combat a bit confusing (further details below). A very cool fusion of Deckbuilding and Auto-Battler like The Bazaar. This game has a lot of potential, however, it needs a more robust tutorial that guides the player through all of the rules and mechanics. Once you hit your first combat, you get I kid you not, 7+ info screens in a row that tell you how combat works with no pause in between, nor a check for understanding. I generally understood the mechanics, but many players will not learn by just digesting paragraphs of information. Best bet would be a guided tutorial for the first combat, pausing the game to check for understanding at each new rule/gameplay mechanic. With a better tutorial, cleaned up rules, and some bug-fixes, I think I would be willing to put more time into this game and pay for it as well.
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Played through as much as the game will allow you to play. What i take from this game is that yes the fast-paced combat is well done, confusing at times, but after a moment you start to understand it a little. Sadly at this time the game is very much incomplete, as you are only able to access one board and your camp. Once the game is a finished product i am certain i will come back to this and play it much more. All in all, i do recommend this game, just do not expect it to be super fulfilling to play until more is released.
Oyun; Eğlenceli deste oluşturma, İlginç mekanikler, kartlar ve kalıntılar, Oyunu bozan hataları olmayan, Eğitim bilgilerini tekrar oynayabileceğiniz bir yapım ve çerezlik bir keyfi var. deneyin.
Waiting for new update...
Интересно конечно, но в правилах так и не разобрался, отчасти из-за bad english.
Game has great potential! The tutorial is a bit clunky, maybe a practice round would be better, but I worked it out after the first battle so not terribly difficult to get a hold of either. But it was fun - I was kinda sad this early that there was so little to play, but I would pay for this game having played it. -Deck building would need work - Could get incredibly difficult as you collected more cards - and an index of what combo cards did would be nice, maybe an unlockable after using so many times - Given the amount if different combos it reminded me of Yu-Gi-Oh chain of memories - You'd deffo need a reddit subpage for all the combos unless your memory was peak xD Great game - Wanted more!
+Free +Pretty neat time based card mechanic +Some player choice +Decent audio -Extremely, EXTREMELY unpolished in all things non-audio -> it's a hot mess; this feels like an alpha version (actual alpha) that's borderline prototype -UX/UI = Disappointed. Would not recommend the game for myself, so I wouldn't do it to you either. ............................................________........................ ....................................,.-‘”...................``~.,.................. .............................,.-”...................................“-.,............ .........................,/...............................................”:,........ .....................,?......................................................\,..... .................../...........................................................,}.... ................./......................................................,:`^`..}.... .............../...................................................,:”........./..... ..............?.....__.........................................:`.........../..... ............./__.(.....“~-,_..............................,:`........../........ .........../(_....”~,_........“~,_....................,:`........_/........... ..........{.._$;_......”=,_.......“-,_.......,.-~-,},.~”;/....}........... ...........((.....*~_.......”=-._......“;,,./`..../”............../............ ...,,,___.\`~,......“~.,....................`.....}............../............. ............(....`=-,,.......`........................(......;_,,-”............... ............/.`~,......`-...............................\....../\................... .............\`~.*-,.....................................|,./.....\,__........... ,,_..........}.>-._\...................................|..............`=~-,.... .....`=~-,_\_......`\,.................................\........................ ...................`=~-,,.\,...............................\....................... ................................`:,,...........................`\..............__.. .....................................`=-,...................,%`>--==``....... ........................................_\..........._,-%.......`\............... ...................................,<`.._|_,-&``................`\..............
a little confusing to start of with, have a play first then go back to the tutorial videos for it to make a bit more sense. aside from that its started off as a great game. definitely will come back to it when there is more levels to clear
This was a fun game. You are thrown into gameplay without getting to practice how to play. However, once I knew what I was doing a bit, the fast-paced was fun. I was only able to play one map. Where's the rest of the game?
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