Facehand

Nice little roguelite deck builder here. This cured my boredom when I was bed ridden for two days with a bad back. Cons: It's pretty grindy. Even with a firmer grasp on game mechanics, I found it very challenging to do what's necessary to unlock more cards. So even after 15ish hours I had only unlocked a handful of unlocks compared to what's actually available.

I love this game! So fun and engaging. Cards are mostly clear and do as you expect. Saw this through a youtuber and wanted to give it a try and already have almost 4 hours in LOL - But I REALLLYYYYYYYYY don't like these enemies that have a "Do X Damage to all characters at the start of the hand". Just had an amazing run and everything was going super smooth, but due to the boss doing 4 damage to everything, it ruined all my cards.(Round 20). About 6 of my cards were useless and everything else barely attacked. (was running summons to see what I could do). - Second critique, It would be nice to add something that knows what build you are going for and kinda helps you. For instance. I tried to use the rats for 4 rounds in a row and only found enough to upgrade once per run. So if we are going obviously in a direction of summons or heat, buffs etc. Maybe give us more relevant cards, not perfect obviously, but something.

Facehand continues to surprise me with how enjoyable it is. I bought this, assuming it would be maybe 2 hours worth of enjoyment. And at first, that's what I got. I played a few runs, won one or two, and then put it down. But then after a while, it would pull me back in, and has done so a few times now. Despite it's simplicity, it is deceptively fun. My one gripe with the game is that I feel like there should just be one more additional strategy available. I say that, despite not having used every card yet, but it really does feel like there's one playstyle missing to feel completely there. Which is not to say that Facehand isn't a complete game, it definitely is. It just feels like, if there was one extra playstyle, the game would benefit so much more. But perhaps that would mess with the balance of the game, it's tough to tell. Either way, while Facehand is by no means treading new ground, it pulls off its shtick more than well enough to be a worthy addition to the library of those who like roguelike deckbuilders and/or autobattlers. PS: Unfortunately does not work on Steam Deck. While most actions are theoretically doable with the touchscreen, or the mousepad, the act of removing a card does not seem possible, since the game always assumed I wanted to actively drag a card if I ever touched it. A shame, and I'd love to see an update that made it work properly.

Oddly fun one to play

It's super auto pets but with deckbuilding. Well worth the modest cost. Difficulty ramps up very fast on higher ascension levels.

Really great game for the value -- pretty difficult, which I really appreciate.

Fun for the first couple hours when the game tricks you into believing there's a ton of viable builds, only to play a dozen more hours and find out that you will just be chasing the same overpowered combos all throughout your achievement grind, or waste entire runs trying to do something creative that just gets shuffled around by an anti-synergy boss mechanic and see an hour of your time wasted. I've seen enough. You might think I've had my money's worth of playtime, but games like these don't respect your time, they have a couple hours of good content at best, and then pretend there's an ocean of depth hidden behind 20 difficulty modifiers. There's not, it's mind numbingly boring and even if the couple powerful combos in the game were fun, padding them with trash bait makes for a stale game that left me feeling cheated. You want a real red flag that this game is stale boring trash that doesn't inspire any creative builds? Go check out the guides section. Notice how there's no posts about cool original builds, the only guide is for how to abuse a combo that breaks the game lmfao. Final verdict? If you've played all the other actual good games in this genre (Monster Train, Balatro, to name just two), then sure, get this one on sale. If you have S tier games in this genre to play still, wtf are you doing looking at this ugly emoji puke?