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The idea of a game where you argue with internet strawmen and try to beat them seems appealing to me, and I'm glad that the gameplay is actually even better than the pretty memey concept. There's a lot of depth and different card synergies to try out. Pretty easy to squeeze in a run here or there too. Figuring out what packs work really well with each other in constructed mode is pretty fun too. I've had a lot of fun trying to get the baneposting combo working, and oh my god it's really strong when you do it right. Definitely gets a thumbs up from me.

Underneath an aesthetic that I can only describe as what you would probably see if you were to freebase social media, there’s a clever deck builder that stands out from the pack. Drafting themed packs versus taking individual cards works very well, and the way the fights play out keeps you on your toes. Real-time with pausing probably shouldn’t work this well for a card game, but it really does here. Definitely worth your $10.

Esoteric rogue deckbuilder 💩🤮💩 made by the hacker known as 4chan🥸. Where you have to fight against AI users 🤖 and beat them in their own game 💩 by posting tons of unrelated messages and images without losing your sanity 🧠 or getting banned 🔨, just like the real internet 🌐💻🌐. You have to build your deck by choosing 3 internet personalities, each with their own unique cards (posts 🖼️), to fight against the AI menace. Personalities are funny on-the-nose satire of many internet archetypes, ranging from the e-girls and emos, to SJWs and #gamers. You can also modify the AI-generated avatar for each personality as you see fit. Personalities are given to you after completing a captcha on the rogue mode (the main mode of the game), but some of them are unlocked for future runs behind specific conditions, like defeating a certain AI bot, or using a specific set of personalities. The list is huge and I won't bother unlocking them all. The flow of the game consists of recycling your posts to get emojis, and spending those emojis to publish posts against the AI. The AI will flood you with timed posts that depletes your sanity if they go off or if some conditions are met, so you fight back by making your own posts to farm downvotes against the AI, while also preventing the AI posts from damaging you. You can play either in real-time as the author intended, or play like a normal human bean 🫘 and go step-by-step so you can play your cards better. There are different kinds of emojis for different cards (not interchangable until later in the game), so the game is already difficult to finish as it is. The AI opponents, just like personalities, are also satire of internet users. Although some of them are tied to lingo that is only known on places like SomethingAwful or 4chan. Sneed. Short game, very niche, very rough in many places (difficult menu and roadmap navigation), and with some bugs (you might encounter out of place icons and invisible personality picks because of race conditions related to animation timings, either for skipping too fast, or the game assuming that you should have died). Buy it only if you really really want to play this.

Other reviews are pretty descriptive of the gameplay and tone but I will just say it's worth the price. If you have any experience in ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this will be very entertaining. As of this I had just beaten my first run, but I've hardly seen everything at this stage.

Pivoting from the nword deck to egirls

Gas-lite ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Hilarious deck building game with lots of different combinations.