Cartomancy Anthology

A great collection of beautiful games. Will play every one of them :)

由22个不同游戏开发小团队制作的22个游戏 组合起来的独立游戏合集，每个游戏对应塔罗牌的一张牌(查了下，是22张大阿尔卡那牌)；每个团队都围绕各自的塔罗牌去做了一款游戏，然后通过游戏让玩家去思考所要表达的东西、或者思考人生，这也贴合塔罗牌占卜。 游戏是先抽卡，抽单卡或者抽三张卡，三张卡会代表过去现在和未来；抽完卡之后会在卡的两边给出小游戏的故事、游戏标签和作者团队，可以决定是否玩这个游戏。抽卡环节是模拟的现实塔罗牌占卜，但似乎没有人解读。 其实这游戏就是一个创意合集，每个小游戏的画风、玩法都不一样，当然游戏的质量难免参差不齐。不过游戏的神秘感还是很强的，除了塔罗牌这个概念外，更多的是在打开某个游戏时的那种期待感，然后也会很好奇单调枯燥的游戏外表下是否会藏一些更深层次的东西，比如说meta元素。

Full disclosure: I contributed to one of the games in this anthology. But even if I hadn't been involved: the sheer breadth of the interesting ideas being expressed all in one package is a sight to behold, and I love that projects like this are allowed to exist. There is a great variety of games, each wholly unique and expressive, and each is so fun to "read" like a tarot card or just to play on its own. With 22 games all in one package, it's hard to talk about each of them individually in a short review. But there is definitely a lot to love, and a LOT of talent being unconstrained in how weird and creative they can be. I wholly recommend you check it out!

Oh my god that was my favorite game ever (Thanks, come again)

I have been very excited for this collection and so far the games are very fun! One major issue im running into is weird vsync stutter on moving objects on screen, so far the fix is to disable full screen optimizations but this has only worked on the main client excluding individual games that so far all seem to have similar issues.

This is a collection of small indie games inspired by the Tarot. Many of them aren't really games, just click-through cinematics and/or text. Many of the games are minimal, foolish, and full of bugs. Some of them are intriguing just the same. Some are pretty cool. Some don't work at all. I get the sense most of these games were made by very young designers; they lack maturity. My favorite is the Emperor; my least favorite is The World.

I haven't played all of the games yet, but what I've seen so far was of great quality and made by some notable designers, like Tanya X. Short of Kitfox Games. This is not amateur hour. In one game I had to cook for a very picky emperor, another was a queer visual novel with a dancing mechanic and gorgeous perfume ad fonts, "Tonight, Together". Buying the anthology was worth it for that one alone already. Like the store page mentions, these games are made for introspection, not for raw thrills, although quietness can be thrilling, too... I had my reservations at first, because personally I have no connection to divination and / or Tarot cards [i]at all[/i] (and in my opinion the store page makes this collection a harder sell than necessary) and probably would not want to play 22 games with a [i]direct[/i] thematic link. But it's not like that. Each game is very different and the Tarot theme is only used as a loose thematic bracket where every title follows a certain theme (also in a lose way.) I'm looking forward to being surprised by the other games, one at the time, over a longer period. No need to rush.

love this collection of small games

SO many absolutely incredible games all in one, all with so many unique concepts and ideas and just really cool stuff and incredible work from so many awesome people!! Almost certainly something in here for anyone to enjoy, and plenty of other stuff to explore beyond that!

All of these experiences are amazing and bring lots of joy. I highly recommend them.