Deck of the Dead

Well, it's free... but it gets very boring after the first 30 minutes or so

If you want to play Slay the Spire but free, this is fine? It has a couple unique concepts, particularly the Possession mechanic, but it desperately needs polish, and it steals so many effects and relics verbatim except for a name change that it's basically the same game with slightly worse graphics and SIGNIFICANTLY worse UI, to the point it is borderline impossible to read. Additionally, there are multiple cards that seem to be nigh identical to each other. If this game gets remade to be more of its own thing, I'd love to see it, but right now, it's more of a work-in-progress, incomplete version of Slay the Spire than its own game.

The core of the game is pretty fun, but there isn't very much content and there are a lot of bugs, typos, and small tweaks that need to be looked at. When the artifact area is full, instead of starting a new row the artifacts continue the same row and end up behind text and stuff. When selecting from your three artifact options, if you have clicked one you need to click it again and deselect it before you can select a different one. I thought that part was outright bugged for a long time because it doesn't indicate you need to deselect one to select another, and really you should just be able to freely click one then another without having to deselect. Also, when you die the screen says "YOU LOOSE" when it should say "YOU LOSE". The highlight of the game for me was probably the art style, it is really nice.

I'll recommend it because it's free. You probably aren't going to want to play it more than once, but there's no harm in playing it once as a playthrough isn't that long. It's a very simple Slay the Spire-like, without much difficulty or deck variety. There are some interesting ideas - possessing other characters changes your appearance, and gives you some of their cards. But without any kind of complexity or difficulty the execution of the idea sadly falls flat. Still worth a shot if you're bored, though.

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