Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Our Lord and Savior?

Has the basis for a great game, but in it's current state feels very luck based in the beginning, with it almost feeling rigged at times. The gameplay loop is pretty interesting, and I love the idea of losses being punishing. The villain is a very interesting character, but I feel the cutscenes in between losses and new runs are a bit too long.

I'm not usually into card games, but this one is awesome! The 3D cutscenes are cool, and you even get to walk around in first-person sometimes (yeah that scene...). The bosses look and sound amazing. At first, I thought winning was just luck, but it gets easier once you figure it out. The story is super dark, which I didn't expect at all. There's still a lot I don't get, but the game design is genius. Ever heard of character development? Here, you get to experience the opposite, in good way.

Not a very good game. The graphics are poor even for a polygon game, there's no real interaction, there's no way to permanently increase your cards so each time you lose you start the run from scratch, there's no actual strategy involved, and the game purposely draws dupes at a rate much higher than probability would allow (with 8 cards, a dupe draw should be 1/7, but in reality it was more like 1/3 across about 200 draws.) When you draw dupes, your hand is burned and you get damaged. If the dev goes back and actually tunes the game properly, maybe adds a way to edit the deck or earn upgrades, then this could be good. But as it stands, it's just a game inspired by Inscryption that is solidly worse in every way. This might feel fair-ish at a 99 cent price point.

Decent build up to mediocre card game. The card game gimmick is basically this: You get a certain number of attempts at winning a card game and need to reach level 13; each round consists of you clicking your portrait over and over hoping you don't draw two of the same card and if you do, the whole hand gets scrapped. Once you win one battle you get some reward choices such as new cards, removing cards, HP buff, etc. and move onto the next battle. Choosing how many times to click your portrait, with the rewards choices at the end of each battle, is the extent of strategy here and isn't enough to keep my interest. I'll keep an eye out for future updates and if more complexity is integrated into this game I might update this review.

Very intriguing game! It's a short little indie game, but it keeps you curious until you're able to see the whole story (not long after you beat the card game), and the card game itself gets more involved the longer you play. The theme is interesting and the horror elements are well done - not jump scare, but a healthy dose of creepy and body horror. The card game is very challenging until you've given it a lot of tries (not terribly unlike Balatro - but very little math involved). There are several different methods/tactics you can try in order to beat each level, but I only found one that (nearly) consistently beat out the RNG. Because realistically, the RNG is quite brutal and punishing on this game, especially if you're a completionist (like me). However, hopping in and out of a new game is easy enough that the punishing RNG doesn't feel entirely devastating (not after the first half dozen runs anyway). Ultimately, I've found it's the random selection of special cards that really shine, and each of them have a slightly different tactic in how they can help you try to progress (though for a few of them, I haven't found them especially helpful yet). Anyway, that's it: it's a fun creepy card game within a fairly short and mostly undeveloped theme of cosmic horror and creepiness. Really not a bad combination for an indie game and I enjoyed the several hours I put into it, while also still feeling accomplished to have gotten all the achievements.