Death Howl

So this game most resembles the Magic the Gathering game Shandalar. The deck building is very good, and the gameplay itself is decent. The problem is the "soulslike" thing. Having enemies respawn every time you need to heal makes traversal a grind. Maybe it's not enough enemy variety, maybe it's the fact that each encounter takes 10+ minutes, maybe it's just the lack of a really banger soundtrack, but I felt my attention slip away from this game pretty fast. That's despite loving the art and gameplay and liking the story enough to want to see where it went but, ultimately idk if/when I'll come back to this one. I give it a tentative recommendation. It's well done and if you tend to play games in a bunch of shorter sessions (I prefer to do a few longer ones) I think the grind of it might not chafe as much.

"Lost are those who seek a way out of sorrow."

Atmósfera increíble gracias a unos gráficos y música brutales. El combate es cuanto menos original y el sistema de cartas y mazos funciona bien y es bastante exigente. Muy muy recomendable

The game moved me. It was such a beautiful and satisfying experience. A tale of love, life, loss and resolve. I am glad to have played and finished it. Thank you.

I have to let the ending of this game sit for a bit. Compelling story, fantastic deckbuilder. More content than I expected for the price.

I'm nowhere near the end of this yet but the story, atmosphere, and game play loop are off the charts. Without spoiling anything, each region has a couple different intended deck styles that are all unique while building off each other. I think the way they laid this out is super clever and fun, and I'm incredibly invested in the story.

[i][b]Revised after developer response:[/b][/i] Addicting, fantastic art, design, style, animation, sound and vfx. It feels more *visuallly* polished than it might look in it's pixel-art style. Dark Souls of card games. RnG and card complexity can be very difficult and frustrating.. and I mean PEAK FRUSTRATION. How do you play it? You die. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. It's called "Death Howl" because you have to listen to your character constantly dying. Sometimes you get to watch a full-feature film of the mobs wailing on your character's entire healthbar while you do nothing but watch. I really, REALLY want to recommend this game so bad. I think it's interesting, creative, unique, *sometimes* fun, and a really great idea. However, in it's current state my opinion is this game needs serious balancing. It just isn't balanced. I keep trying to convince myself that it's just my build, or just my placement or just my decisions, but after 40 hours, I I realized.. it's just not properly tuned. Some packs have a "small red diamond" but 5 mobs with 1 of which will just infinitely respawn anything you kill. Some packs have a "large red diamond" to imply greater difficulty, but 3 easy mobs your character will destroy in 2 turns. These are all signs of just an improperly balanced game- I don't envy the dev, balancing an RNG deckbuilder with pretty strong card complexity seems like a bad time... but I cannot recommend this game in good faith until there is some major rebalancing. I'll try again in a year to see if the dev smoothed it out. Until then it's a tragic thumbs down from me. Don't say you weren't warned! Devloper, would love if you added Display Settings support, specifically for borderless fullscreen. And obviously.. please fkn balance this game. C'mon.

Amazing art style. One of the best pixel art games I have played. The story is wholesome and the grind to build new decks throughout the huge expansive map gives you plenty of game exploration. Highly suggest for any TCG fan.

A gorgeous, rewarding game everyone should play at least once. A touching story combined with deep, interesting gameplay. 10/10

Death Howl is an impressive game. I bought it for the fantastic art and grid based tactics gameplay. I did not, however, expect to tear up multiple times during the ending! Gameplay+art+story=🥰 I really loved building the decks for each world. Very fun to see the strategies reveal themselves as cards were unlocked. it all felt very tight and meticulously curated. Big thanks to the devs for such a lovely game. looking forward to the next!