Cards and Dungeons

Some runs you're unstoppable. Some runs the dungeon just has your number. That's the roguelike way, and this one gets it right. The permanent upgrades you unlock between runs mean you're never really starting from zero. Even the failed runs teach you something about a card interaction or enemy pattern you missed before.

UPDATE: Devs are claiming they engage constructively with feedback. [url=https://imgur.com/a/RzShlnJ]Here's the dev response I was referring to in this review.[/url] The review section for this game feels like a fever dream. They're all permutations of one another praising this game's risk, synergies, depth, replayability, and so on. People who sank "whole afternoons" into this game with 1 hour on record. And the one negative review, which gives completely valid and fair feedback, has an utterly deranged reply from the developers. To cut through the white noise; this game is just underwhelming. Levelling is simple health/mana number increases, and combat is just dodges and auto attacks through endlessly repeating halls of the same dungeon layout and spike traps. There's interesting bones behind the idea of ability use causing negative events, but the rest of the game right now is just so oppressively bland that I can't really recommend it to anyone. There is a future for games like this - more polish, more features, more revisions responding to feedback. I'd love to see new dungeon layouts, new enemies, more trap variety, and above all ways to dynamically alter the run. Make cards pickups with charges, or give them affixes with positive/negative effects, there's so many ways you could go. But right now this game isn't even worth its introductory sale price. And the way the developers have responded to their only negative review thus far should tell you all you need to know about the overreaching asking price.