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Launching the game on the last day of the steam sale without a launch discount is a bold strategy, but I hope it works out, as it does seem like the game is built for future expansion. It's a neat evolution from Keystone, which is a Starcraft 2 Custom map the dev previously made. I have hundreds of hours in Kestone and I have about 10 hours from the demo, but from the end of the demo I finished the story campaign in about 4 hours - the roguelike mode is definitely the main appeal here, and that's pretty good!

The demo as i have played was quite fun and also extensive. Noble of the dev.. For that reason, and small indie games need all the visibility they can get, i will give a positive review. If i change my mind, i may change my review.

Watch out, I suspect the NPC cheats. It'd be nice if we got to see that had a limited deck too, and at least see the random cards they were playing after they played them. Probably the npc units are just too damn powerful. But you do keep coming back for more. Heck, I bought this thing despite my misgivings about it. Hints: What you think is a good signature probably isn't and not using that reserve properly can hurt you. I've found decent success by juggling those with cards that i didn't think aught to be in them.

So far so good, although it's feels very early in development stage, would love to actually play the alien factions. One thing I'd like to see added is ability to check what cards my opponent played, the card that spawns an anarch and shoots missiles was very confusing and annoying, seemed like a bug until I checked discord to see that's how its supposed to behave

I HOPR MORE IS ADDED IF NOT ITS BEATABLE ON BOTH MODES IN UNDER A COUPLE HOURS, PLEASE META

About 20 hours of content. Was worth the money. Nothing special. Being able to control deck bloat more would be nice to really have different builds/runs. Most of the runs I had to repeat were due to back deck drawing from unpreventable deck bloat I could easily see room for this game to expand with playing as the different races and continuing the story (like as the aliens defending against the humans)

Really excellent game. Very quick to pick up and lots of depth. Plays a bit like mechabellum but with card game mechanics.

Broken balance, the missions are literally unbeatable

The story mode was a nice surprise for me, It's the first time in awhile the characters felt well balanced and not forced. The gameplay is an enjoyable loop of autobattling/deckbuilding, however I will say that it is tricky to hyperfocus one strategy. Lots of stage challenges can mess up a deck, so making sure you can cover your bases is important. This leads to generally (in my experience) medium-large decks with rag tag good cards, but signature strategies (one of the boss/elite rewards) guarantee you have that card in your opening hand. The later stages of the Roguelike mode have been rough, but the dev is active and already added some perks to help out the early game, and is looking and adjusting things as of this review. The demo is very good, and you can see if you like the game play plenty with it. It's certainly worth a shot if you want a unique flavor of autobattler/card game.

A very fun and roguelike. The cards are fairly simple, kinda like MTG cards earlier in its lifespan. Which is something I like. But despite the simplicity of many of the cards, theres a good amount of strategy and fun synergies between the cards. Some questionable mission designs, like the ones that brutally punish structure based decks. Other archetypes dont have hard-counter missions like this so its odd that structures of all things are being treated like this. Dev also seems quite receptive to feedback, and makes frequent blog posts talking to the players. Also this dev is the same guy who made Keystone Card game in the SC2 arcade. so if you liked that game, you will definitely love this game. Just keep in mind that its a rogue like, and not a CCG like Keystone was.