GUG

One of the coolest experiences I've ever had with AI generated content in a game. It's used in a way that's actually tasteful and leads to some of the most interesting gameplay if you're creative enough in your prompts, but can also be utterly broken. The AI isn't perfect and frequently creates passive effects on Gugs that have bugs and that's to be expected, though I do wish it happened less frequently. I feel like this isn't a problem that the developers can easily solve as much as it is a problem for LLM researchers, though. Overall, it's genuinely the most clever, well implemented uses of an LLM I've ever seen. The only lame part is the image generation as it creates Gugs that frequently look too similar to each other with no special features relating to their description. I feel like it's a bit misleading that this game isn't considered early access as AI or not, the game itself lacks polish and has a buggy UI and I do hope the devs iron that out. There's also some parts of the menu that say [come back soon] that also denote the game being unfinished as of yet. A tip towards anyone wanting to get into playing this but have a hard time generating Gugs that aren't terrible: The AI doesn't have a great concept of balance and it seems the devs have weighted it to trying to make Gugs that aren't too powerful. If you prompt something as boring as soldier or killer you won't get many spectacular results. If you prompt it with words that belong to certain game mechanics, though... that's where things get crazy. You can for example use the phrase "enemy battlefield nuke" and it'll create a Gug that nukes ALL enemy Gugs on their battlefield. On the other hand, if you just say "battlefield nuke", the monkey's paw might curl and it will create a Gug that nukes your side, too. EDIT: The game is definitely WAY too buggy not to be early access. The UI bugs so much sometimes you can't even start the game. There's just a lot of bugs in general that have nothing to do with AI and it's kind of a shame that they released it as a "full game" as is. in the few hours I've played as of this review there were so many bugs that prevented me from even properly starting runs. I still recommend this if you wanna get a few hours of fun for a cheap novelty and you might even get hundreds of hours but I can't call this a complete or even remotely polished experience.

trash ai slop, used to be a good idea during beta, but somehow the release is ridiculously bad. Unoptimized and laggy, no meaningful content, bad ui, etc.

it sounds a lot more interesting than it is

Fun game, many play styles. I have many team types that I copied from my Magic decks from back in the day. The game still has some balance issues, but I'm sure it will be worked out. I played the Demo a lot before release and much has changed for the better. If you are a fan of turn based card games like magic then you will like gug, There are a lot of possible deck builds you just have to be creative. Example (god, hades) are OP wiping the board clean when you are in a jam or use Jesus gug to revive gugs you have lost. I give this game 7/10.

Gostei MUITO da demo e achei a proposta da IA criando personagens a partir das nossas próprias frases muito divertida. Adorava colocar nomes de personagens de anime e ver a IA recriar suas habilidades. Infelizmente, no jogo final, boa parte dessa graça desapareceu. A IA está bem mais limitada, a criatividade é menos recompensada e os bugs incomodam bastante: personagens desaparecendo durante o turno, se matando do nada e habilidades com descrições completamente sem sentido. É uma pena, porque o potencial era enorme. Pra mim, a demo foi mais divertida que a versão final.

I really enjoyed the demo and purchased the game upon release. This said, upon launching the game it felt like it was just rebranded and pushed out the door as a full product. I waited for 6 months to see if there would be any improvements or fixes, but as of the time of this review there has been nothing. Sadly since then there really hasn't been any movement forward (patches, releases or communications from the Devs). The game still frequently generates unusable or broken GUGs which makes progression a coin flip. If there had been more communication or had there been some indication that work was being put into the game I probably would have remained interested - but as it stands I wouldn't be able to recommend GUG to anyone. As a tech demo or concept game this was promising. As a full release it falls short.

Does not work as intended

For it's cheap price you can fight with: immortal gugs insta-killing gugs And the Mightiest of them all: A gug that prevents all enemy gugs to enter the battle! you don't have to fight them if they can't even join. You got to think outside the box to make your Gugs!