Drop Duchy

Tetris + Deckbuilding + Strategy 10/10

A wonderful game with a contagious gameplay loop that makes you go for that "just one more turn". Lovely concept done well, I am greatly enjoying it.

Great game of tetris with resource management and roguelite mechanics.

DEUS VULT! 100/10 Drop Duchy is a roguelike using Tetris pieces. The actual gameplay of Tetris, you know, frantic placing of blocks, lining up full rows, failing, crying, all that, takes something of a back seat in practice. Emphasis is placed much more on spatial planning, resource management, and improvising the best continuation when THE DOWNTOWN IS THE LAST DAMN CARD AGAIN! How it works is that the pieces show different types of terrain. Each type interacts with the building pieces you deckbuild and shuffle in with the terrain, plus enemy buildings forced on you. Get resources by filling rows or from buildings, remember to raise some armies, try not to die. Between rounds, pick new cards and spend resources to upgrade them. The game's randomness may seem like it's everywhere, but in practice it's quite controllable. Between levels, you have generous card rerolls and can limit the random options to specific pools. During levels, just get good lmao. The great: * While you'll do two hours in one sitting, finishing a run provides a natural break for going to the bathroom or acknowledging family members. * It tickles the Increasing Numbers endorphins, but gentler than Balatro. Animations are more subdued and three-digit numbers usually mean you've reached endgame status. * The game rewards skill without being repetitive. Every level is different, your deck heavily affects your placement strategy, and if you truly do get messed up by terrible RNG the game offers zero-judgement save reloads. It's not cheesing if the ingame tip tells you to do it! * Also, you have powers to stack the deck and can rewind to before your last placed piece as often as you want. You'll rarely get stuck with silly mistakes. * The wooden board game aesthetic just does it for me. The pieces adjust to form continuous groups with surrounding ones, the UI is lovely, and sound design just crisp. The meh: * Everything in the game is an unlock. Most notably, each faction starts with like two buildings and a piece of snot. Do yourself a favour and run them through on Easy once at the start. Not only will you learn what they're about, at the end of that run, your next run will start with the equivalent of several level completions. In all fairness, ONE brief run is usually enough to get all the starting improvements. * This is very much a game to concentrate on. The unlockable factions' gimmicks are *interesting*, but can also be immensely frustrating. I already get cortisol spikes remembering spending the entire level making a Crusader Box only to learn the "Counts as a River" Bridge is still its own region and instead of 150 boys I now get 9 and die. * Despite the gameplay being varied, I would argue each faction has a few techs that are practically mandatory. You can usually arrange getting them, but have fun playing the Republic without Masonry. * There is a little bit of RoguelikeOnlyBossMattersitis. It inspires you to plan for a high army output level and maybe specifically *to* favour economy over army early on, knowing you can just take the damage and heal it up later by the power of three Bridges. But the point remains that bosses field significantly higher unit counts than any level before them.

简直是俄罗斯方块版的杀戮尖塔

7/10。 核心是俄罗斯方块，加入了一些资源管理；画风还不错，入手的时候价格也合适。 问题在于经典的游戏，往往本身就已经足够好玩——同时简单；而再做加法如果不是很出色，那么甚至不如什么都不加；这个游戏就处于这样一个尴尬的地位，俄罗斯方块加资源管理，可能本意是让落子更加谨慎，可连锁设计的并不算好，反而让人角色烦闷；有一个类似的资源管理——国王的凝视就玩起来比这个好玩的多。