Griftlands

As a Grumpy Gamer TM - I tend to focus on the negative when I review games. Well, ok so maybe that's just in all of life, but it happens to apply to games as well. Griftlands stands out against my normal tidal wave of meh and easily collects my admiration. I admit, I'm late to the roguelike/lite/bite/nite/fite/quite/whatever, but Griftlands is one of the best I've played. Looks good, sounds good, plays good, has a story mode (helllo morning coffee runs!... ok, sorry, different kind of runs), and just enough complexity in the system to make me go, "oh I should've..." multiple times in a playthrough. I liked Wildermyth a ton, Peglin was not enough peggle and too much lin, Slay the Spire is love/hate, but Griftlands just gets the love. Grab it, support the devs, or wait for a sale - but do yourself a favor and give it a go.

Androgynous looking women plague this game, and then you run into characters with they/them pronouns.

If you played slay the spire and wanted a story driven version of it, this is solid. The main gimmick this game adds is a negotiation mini-game that works mechanically in a similar respect to the combat. Nice thing about negotiation is if you fail negotiation by running out of resolve, it isn't the end of the run like running out of health. Having not every combatish encounter be life or death is a nice addition to the roguelike deckbuilding formula. The reputation system it keeps with the various characters works well in the story sections, as you have to weight the various bonuses you get from having allies vs. taking every advantage you can get. Friendly characters will help you out if they happen to be around, allies give you a buff all the time. Dislike and hated will do the same, but helping your opponents. You can eliminate your rivals to remove their debuff, but depending on how you do it, it can cascade with their friends hating you for being a murderer. There's also random encounters related to reputation, so it pays to have friends and eliminate foes. Rep system is also in the non-story game modes, but it's mostly a series of "[character] hates you" cause you killed their friend, which is marginally disappointing they didn't implement that more, but the story runs are where they clearly invested the most effort. As expected of a Klei game, very stylish artwork and animation. The world is richly detailed, with excellently written dialog. Voices are simlish, but with the amount of dialog there is, can't really fault them for it. Downsides: Never really found a combo that was terribly fun. There's good cards and all, but none of the decks I built were particularly memorable or had a memorable moment. It's well balanced almost to a fault. All in all, didn't wow me, but I enjoyed my time with the game. A good 6-7/10 for me.

对我个人来说它的剧情比肉鸽部份更有吸引力，可惜路线有限，时不时会想起来重玩一把，然后卸载等待下一次心血来潮

I really wanted to like this game, but something about the whole thing felt way too over conceptualized

good

it's mid, good-ish, but not mechanically deep enough to get real long term enjoyment out of it. unless you really like the rpg component of it, runs take a while. like 90% of "rogue-like" games, what holds it back is the lack of competitive balancing and not enough variety in competitive choices to make. which makes sense, it is difficult to balance a base game with too many tiered difficulty states due to the obnoxious amount of meta-progression systems that will slowly make the game easier, and card unlocks that FINALLY let you go into a build archetype. it also suffers from a lot of degenerate optimization loops, where the best play is to force play out the rounds until you hit the point of not being able to get xp. i don't like it when i try to min-max a game, and the actions i have to do are just tedious and boring. even if you were to hit the final difficulty and this was no longer an issue, you still have to grind to get there, and that's boring. some perks are just much better than others, "skipping cards grants additional shills" starts at base value 10, but you can go to 15/20/30? like okay dude, you might as well write in "spend meta progression currency to make one of the most important decisions in a deck building game 200% better". these upgrades are also TIED PER CHARACTER, come on. i played it for like 50-100 hours from epic launcher back when it released. devs are definitely not coming back to this game, but if they are, please get an autistic god gamer to do a balance pass and add a base game mode with a set difficulty and set balance on all the meta progression options. i get that you're expecting people to get those eventually, but the base game is too easy and there's limited options until you unlock everything. i'm still recommending it. the theming is great, but it leaves a lot to be desired.

我比较注重打牌体验，所以这个游戏我不推荐 有剧情，有嘴炮机制，有选择分支，这些都是很好的部分，但这些东西同时带来了大量需要阅读的文本，每一局冗长的游玩时间，卡牌解锁进度慢，重复游玩单调且坐牢 而且面对卡牌新手，难度过高，流派思路也比较松散，很难玩爽，玩过几次后就不怎么想再打开