I've only played a little over three hours, but I think I can say that this is a reasonably fun but less than exciting collectable-card style rogue-like dungeon crawl.
There is a character who goes up in level, but there is only one class available and no real options for customization. There are four areas you can upgrade, and each time I level I can raise each once once I have earned the resources to do so.
The deck is pretty basic, and as you level you can increase each cards potency a little bit, if you spend the money to do it. You get the chance to buy new cards as well. The game offers you the option to build more than one deck and switch them out between forays, but I don't yet see any reason not to simply built the best deck and always use it.
Apparently at level five, relics show up, If I am still playing that long, I may come back and edit the review to discuss them.
The dungeons are pretty basic, you get a few potions to help you on your way. These are fixed in nature and number, heal health, heal stamina, heal both, and a vision potion that reveals the closest rooms contents.
There are a few options, monsters, treasure, boss-monster and random encounter.
The monster and boss monster rooms have one the three monsters that you fight. Combat cards attack the first monster, the last monster or in some cases all of them. Some cards give you some defense. The monsters have various, and often unexplained abilities. There do seem to be a variety of them, and they have different types of attacks, like damaging your armor, making you bleed, etc. Basic stuff.
When you beat a room, you get a treasure chest.
Whenever you get treasure, it goes in to your deck, and can pop up during your battles. You have a limited number of save options to put them away, i.e. out of your deck. You do have to be careful not to let it overwhelm your hand.
Boss monsters are pretty much just a tougher monster room, though usually with bigger treasure. A lot of levels require you to defeat the boss room to complete that trips quest.
Treasure consists of cash (for buying and upgrading cards) resources (for upgrading characters) and crystals, which are the games experience points, but you don't get these during the first level of dungeons.
The final kind of room are the random events. They vary, and offer you a choice in how to handle them. Some are good, like the map rooms, some are bad, like the trap room, and you might find a card, but only for use in that dungeon. Sadly there seems to be a very limited variety of these.
And that is pretty much the entire game in a nut shell, go thru a dungeon, hopefully complete the quest, buy neews cards and upgrade your character when you can, rinse and repeat.
It all works, but it is pretty bland. The art is cartoony, as is the style these days, and the controls work pretty well, though they aren't asked to do much. An easy one thumb up.
