Dawncaster | The RPG Cardventure

Looks and plays good at first, but gets annoying and pretty disappointing when you have to start over and over again as RNG can screw you totally and easily, leading to tons of completely hopeless and miserable situations. Getting any cookie cutter build together is way too rare in my experience, so it normally feels like a punishing disaster fest, a simple bitter timesink. It would need some careful and thoughtful touches to make it worth the time and sweat.

(Note: I play Dawncaster mainly on my mobile device, my Steam play hours do not accurately reflect my play time) Dawncaster is my new obsession. I have played games such as Hearthstone and MTG in the past, and those are great games. And then came Slay the Spire, which opened up a new style of battler games for me. And then I found Dawncaster and I can't seem to stop playing it. The game is incredibly well balanced while also remaining broad-based. There is no "one OP build", you can make any build work, and the approaches to this feel endless, from character choices to card synergy and beyond. You can choose a freeze/burn build, or learn to bury cards, or trim your deck, or raise massive stats, or gain souls, pickup companions, trade-up for ultra powerful cards, gain experience, choose difference paths, use buffs/debuffs, and so on. The sheer number of builds, approaches and some luck is overwhelming and offers endless gameplay. Once you think you have a build that works for you, up the difficulty and find your flaws! This games comes with all the cards already so you won't be nagged endlessly for DLC's, and you can easily earn gold in game for assets that you want. I've never spent a dime past my initial purchase price which was already very reasonable. As mentioned, Dawncaster is also available on Android, (although the cloud saves don't align with PC). This is just nice as it doesn't matter which platform I'm on, I can always play Dawncaster. If you play and like the game, I encourage you to learn more about it. There is a lot of stuff to learn that isn't obvious at first, such as how to choose which energy to use when playing a card, how to choose which paths to follow, all the extra asset packs that aren't normally in play, and the endless combinations of new builds those assets packs include. Try different approaches, learn new ways to take the enemy down. I went from failing to reach the end of the game the first few times to making my first run where I didn't need a single rest to heal, and it felt great! The more you try, the more fun it is!

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Too much RNG. 9/10 deaths I have blazed through the game, quite repetively doing the same thing on all enemies and then suddenly die to some random attack I had no realistic way to know about beforehand. The enemy cards being obscured takes away meaningful decisions. Runic Dome is widely considered to be the most unfun boss relic in Slay the Spire for a reason. This game has Runic Dome turned on at all time. There is also too many random mechanics. The game is too cluttered. It's a shame because it seems like a really enjoyable game under all the RNG and clutter.

Decent for a while. But the cards have no synergy with other archetypes (of which there are too many). This makes savescumming a must to get the right card rewards, which starts to get annoying. If savescumming is so necessary, then it should just be much easier to get the cards that you want.

I'd agree with a lot of other plays on this, both good and bad. It's a great game, but punishing. You might have an otherwise solid build, and suddenly you're killed in 2 miuntes by a boss who seems randomly overpowered. I think a frog killed me in 2 moves from nowhere on one occasion, it can be annoying, particularly as the game can take some time to play through an attempt. But it's fun anyway.

I'm really enjoying this game. I bought it on a whim, a few days after purchasing Slay the Spire 2, and have devoted most of my time to playing this game instead of STS 2. I usually turn off music or lower to almost inaudible when playing games but I just love the way the music in each zone matches the mood so well that I've decided to keep it on. I also love the events and art. The game play is very fun! There is an insane amount of diversity via the ability to add different malignancies when creating a run and enabling/disabling different card packs. If you enjoy challenging deckbuilding games, definitely give this one a try.

[b]Mobile RPG cardventure upgraded for PC but still missing features for example Vsync.[/b]

An ultimately disappointing adventure. I was initially excited to see it had cross save on the phone, so I purchased it on android and then PC, only to find out that it only saved your meta progression, not your current run... which were way to long and the point of cross saving. Not only are the runs long and boring (because your card pool and strategy rarely change) but the meta progression equates to 10 extra life, or some cosmetic portrait each level. The game bragged about having a massive card pool, which it does, but none of the cards synergize outside of it's own mechanic. Because you aren't forced to take a card each round, your deck ends up being the same as there's no reason to take any card outside your niche. Boss fights CAN be interesting, but most of the time it's just a crap shoot trying to leverage your mechanic against whatever special conditions they have. Also the "RPGadventure" aspect isn't any different than any other game that I could tell. You're presented with the same "choices" with different buff/debuff outcomes that all the other cardgames basically present. The overarching story isn't that spectacular, though I haven't played any of the expansions. Some of the deck mechanics were neat to play, but my time with it ultimately didn't feel rewarding. Originally I wanted a casual card slinger to kill time while I gave Breach Wanderers a break. However, in most every aspect, this game disappointed me and I'll gladly sink more time into the aforementioned.

There's just too much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mechanics that completely shut down your run. Like having an enemy that becomes immune to your damage the first time you hit it. And you're doing chains. Or an enemy that cleanses itself making it immune to burn damage.