Decks of the Damned

I should have played the demo. This isn't my bag.

My biggest problem with the game is that the core gameplay loop is pretty boring. It consits of staring at the screen and waiting for resources to spawn and sending your vampires to harvest them or your minions to hunt the animals. That's it. You spend most of the game staring at the map and clicking on resources as they pop up. Hope you like it. That is my biggest problem with the game, but I also want to adress a few other issues: 1) Minions and equipment: There are a few different types of minions to summon or tame, some with special abilities. For example: Ettins have a 10% chance to hit twice, ghosts have a 20% to heal themselves for half the damage they cause and ents have a chance the inflict damage on their attacker when being hit. The minions also have different damage, health and armour values. Same goes for equipment. Some equipment is more defensive, some more aggressive. At a glance, this may seem like an interesting system with diverse builds around each minion type and equipment sets. However, because the special abilities all have pretty low values (like ghosts having a 20% chance to heal themselves for 50% of the damage they cause), the special abilities are mostly irrelevant. There are no different builds, there isn't enough gear in the game to support that, even if you wanted to try it, it's purely about stats. Just get the highest stat minions with the highest stat gear. That's all there's to it. No options for different builds, nothing. 2) Biomes: Biomes are another point of supverficial depth. Just like there is a bunch of different gear and you have a bunch of minion types, there are also a couple of biomes. Issue 1) Biome choice: River and forest are the only two biomes with reliable access to cloth, which you need to build net traps, which you need to capture humans to turn them into vampires, which you need to increase your minion cap. This makes it feel like you have to spawn in one of those biomes, as you will miss out on minions otherwise, which are an essential component of the game. Picking any of the other biomes feels like a pointless handicap. They all have slightly different loot pools, giving you access to materials you can't reliably get in forest or rivers, but you don't need those materials. As I said in point one, this game is just about getting high stats on your minions, and you get that just fine by never leaving the forest or rivers. The biomes, while they do all offer a slightly different experience, are ultimately pointless. The different items from different biomes aren't significant enough to encourage you to try them all out. I did try several, and there are two main differences: Forest and rivers means reliable access to cloth, mountain and volcano means a little bit easier access to iron. That's it. There are no special items that can dictate the course of the run or what builds you use (again, there are no builds), it's just a slightly modified loot pool. 3) Combat: Combat is resolved automatically. Your units attack random enemies, enemies randomly attack your units. There are effects that increase or decrease the chance for a specific unit to be hit, but I consider that irrelevant. As I already pointed out before, this game is just about getting as high stats as possible on all your units. You don't have tanks, healers and damage dealers. The items that provide special effects all have such a low chanc of triggering that you might as well ignore it. So you spend the game getting the highest stats possible across your units, putting no thought but stats into their equipment, and then you watch them attack randomly in combat. The combat itself is just as brainless as the preparation for it. 4) Progression: Yet another superficial layer of complexity with no real meaning behind it. Progression in this game means: Unlocking more biomes, unlocking more crafting recipes, unlocking more vampire classes and unlocking more artifacts. I somewhat understand why artifacts are locked in the beginning. They modify the rules of the game a little. For example, there is an artifcat that guarantees that two river biomes will spawn and gives you two chests containing river items. The same also goes for mountain tiles. In a game where biomes give you access to different builds, this would have been an interesting feature, but here, it feels pretty pointless. Still, as the artifacts do technically modify the game rules a bit, I understand why you have to unlock them. But why are there unlockable biomes, recipes and classes? Why would you not have access to all of those from the start? The biomes are mostly irrelevant, so unlocking them basically does nothing, unlocking recipes allows you to craft stronger gear and stronger minions and unlocking classes gives you access to vampires with new abilities. The stronger gear and minions is basically just stats. nothing interesting there, just higher stats. The vampire classes are similarly uninteresting. The summoner lets you summon animals instead of having to tame them. That class is essentially just a convenice/time saver upgrade over having to tame them. It also gives you access to animals from other biomes, making the biome system even more pointless. I don't see any practical reason as to why a "large" portion (it's not really much, the game doesn't have much content, but most of what it does have is hidden behind unlockable stuff) of the game's content needs to be unlocked, rather than being available at the start. It feels like it's locked to make it feel like there is a progression system in the game. It's there to keep you playing until you have finally unlocked everything there is to unlock. It's supposed to appeal to your completionist spirit. So yeah. Not great. It's not a bad foundation for a game, but it is not a good game at all. If it receives updates that make the core gameplay more interesting than just "harvest resource", that flesh out the biomes, make every biome a valid choice and give each of them a unique feeling and if build diversity is introduced to the game, I could see it being a lot of fun. But as it is, I think it's just absolutely terrible.

I dropped this review because, at the time of writing, the game is getting bad reviews I don't think it deserves. It's a neat little deck builder and merge game with a satisfying sense of progression. I completed my first loop in 3 hours, including the tutorial, and that got me through burning down two villages and taking the local castle down, only to start building my own. It is not a polished experience. I came here for a breather from Book of Hours and this doesn't hold a candle to it. But if you want to experience that kind of emergent story telling as a vampire/necromancer, I found it to be a more immersive and satisfying experience in that regard than V Rising, which is just a MMORPG boss crawl without the MMO (which I don't enjoy). There's potential--they need an immersive tutorial that actually tells you what the castle is, or at least a better game manual--but it feels like a lite version of loop hero in that regard. So if the game's on sale and you want a couple hours of something different, it's worth a try, and maybe it will become something better. **Update** The game gets more fun after the third or fourth run. First run, I was just accumulating resources, raising an army, and attacking. By the fourth run, I'm selectively building up a raid camp, gathering resources to craft advanced armor, and stacking debuffs and stun locks to take down more challenging enemies. There isn't enough story here to make it a great experience, but it's a fun mechanic and it's more than worth the price on sale.

建议： 因为正式版确实是demo的补完，游戏完整性还不错价位也便宜所以给好评，但是我对游戏只有这个水平非常不满。 玩了2把，实在是没动力玩下去了，这游戏最大问题就是开局运营的同质化，每把的开局非常枯燥乏味，上一局结束带来的收益只能说帮助有限，整个游戏的是卡牌运营+肉鸽，卡牌运营这块做的还行，但是肉鸽这部分太差我接下来详细陈述我的不满: 核心问题就是毕竟是卡牌运营为核心，导致死亡带来的时间成本太高，并且核心敌人没太好的办法估计出一个实力区间，最终呈现出来的游戏操作就是我得加长运营时间来保证碾压这些核心敌人，而这游戏的运营又是重复度特别高的过程目前我没玩到什么特别特别随机的地方，一把就能看透出怪的逻辑直接背板就能度过这段运营时间，这也导致了我的新鲜感得完全靠制造新物品来获得，但是新物品制造的需求又难和随机，这就导致我的第二局整体还是很枯燥，游戏结束的奖励还是语焉不详的没有强反馈的。 哎，一个我喜欢的新游戏我都没办法一口气玩下去真是少见。 目前我还没想到太好的办法，粗略的想法是极大加强每张地图的后几波敌人并且强化他们的掉落。

C'est joli, avec de bonnes idées et plutôt facile à prendre en main donc je recommande MAIS … j'ai détesté certains aspects du jeu qui m'ont fait arrêter d'y jouer très vite. (et oui, je recommande parce que les éléments que je dénonce ci dessous sont ma cryptonite, ils me gâchent un jeu en quelques minutes mais ce n'est pas pour autant des "défauts") J'ai détesté l'aléatoire du jeu. Il m'arrive d'attendre beaucoup trop longtemps pour obtenir un objet nécessaire qu'un seul personnage loot et ce dernier, n'apparait que toutes les x minutes. Devoir attendre un élément si longtemps dans un jeu où le temps compte, cela m'a rendu fou. On retrouve l'aléatoire dans la capture d'ennemis pour en faire un vampire. Sur 4 vagues, je n'ai capturé personne (malgré l'utilisation de plusieurs pièges) et votre nombre de vampires définit le nombre de sbires que vous pouvez avoir dans votre armée. Idem pour les cartes disponibles sur le plateau, je me suis très vite senti limité par les 25 cartes autorisées. Je me dis qu'il est possible d'améliorer ce nombre en construisant un château mais je n'ai pas trouvé quand ou comment on peut le construire. Bref, je n'ai pas eut le courage de relancer une partie pour voir ce qu'il me manque ou ce qu'il me reste à découvrir à cause de l'aléatoire.

游戏是好游戏，但那个傻逼毒箭蛙是真的可以削弱一下了，闪避几率百分之20连续闪避了6次，1攻5血连杀我2只骷髅和一个石头人，结果就爆半点血液，害得我材料都没有了做不了仆从，白天给吸血鬼猎人活活砍死。 作为类堆叠大陆的自动演化类游戏，本作从题材上就很有趣味，不再是单调的野外求生，而是需要扮演一位落魄的吸血鬼领主来重建城堡，具体就是白天召唤仆从布防、夜晚努力扩张，通过卡牌召唤随从、制作装备、采集资源，在一小时左右的单局流程中完成各种目标，并解锁新的地块。 和其他大部分此类游戏不一样的地方是，游戏其实在根本上就限制了随从数量，不鼓励过多的人海战术，而是需要收集资源来给仆从们全副武装，拿上武器来提升战力。 而和堆叠大路相同的部分就是游戏的制作阶段，通过把各种材料放成一摞来建造生产，而且直白的是游戏开始就解锁了大部分的合成公式，只需要右键点击卡牌就可以看到需要合成的相应材料，十分的方便，不需要再花费时间去自行探索。不过相应的游戏的时间非常宝贵，因此在夜晚要争分夺秒迅速扩张，一定要准备好有限的仆从护卫，来应对白天猎人的攻击，玩家需要提前制作好棺材，每天白天吸血鬼都是无法行动的，强制在棺材中休息，只能通过仆从武器来进行被动防御，如此来循环十天完成当前关卡。 另外一点是游戏的地图大小要比常规的堆叠游戏稍大一些，因为资源是在地图上随机生成刷新的，而且怪物也会自行活动，所以地图特相应的并不小，只不过这也衍生出一个问题就是后期的地图不便于整理，随机刷新的资源导致整个画面太乱了。 在每个流程中玩家的最终目标是按照地块来不断征服，直到把王国全部纳入版图，虽然从玩法上来说还是很有趣的，但架不住每次地图扩张重开都是一样的重复内容，所以从这点来说游戏的重复度较高，内容稍显贫瘠了一些。但总体而言作为融合堆叠和卡牌管理元素的本作还是值得那些喜欢此类作品的玩家一试的，毕竟化身吸血鬼重振河山的剧情还是蛮有意思的。 [quote] 游玩百态，将游玩心得用汉语化作玩家的指明灯，(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧ [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35402408/]点击这里关注汉化语录~[/url] 如果喜欢这个评测，请点个赞让更多人看见 [/quote]

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Way too tedious to recommend. Having enough resources to craft but having to pull the perfect amount feels way too unnecessary. I'd love to dive into the game more but this is severely holding me back.

me deja dudas

[h1]If only this game have received a little more attention... [i]Maybe[/i] then developer could have had a motivation to actually finish it...[/h1] But it didn't. And the game was left in pretty bad shape. They didn't even remove "Wishlist on steam" link - looks like some kind of artifact from a demo. It's playable, yes, but other reviews are right - core gameplay is ok for one, maybe two runs and then it becomes outright boring. Game is just too easy (spawn all 9 minions and you can zerg-rush all human settlements) and too repetitive (build the same 5 crafting stations over and over). I [i]did[/i] enjoy it myself, but it isn't something I could in good conscience recommend to anyone else. Except if the game is on 50% sale again and you are [i]huge[/i] fan os Stacklands, like me - than it [i]might[/i] be worth it even in this sorry state.