Hell Deck

This is an enjoyable rogueliite, and the synergies are fun to experiment with. One of the ways to upgrade your units is to devour other units, so getting an engine going is important. Some units also have adjacency effects that buff other units. As you defeat enemies, you gain souls, which you can spend on relics (continuous passive effects), items (one-time effect used during battle), or use to remove units for your deck of units. During each combat wave, your units are randomly pulled from your deck of units and randomly placed on a 4x4 grid where they auto-battle the enemies as the enemies circle around the grid. This makes the game a riff on the tower defense genre. You lose if the number of enemies (shown on a meter) reaches 100. The further you get in your run, the number and rate of spawning of enemies increases. At the beginning of the game, you do get to choose one cursor effect from several options. Hovering your cursor over one of your units buffs it or debuffs an enemy. This gives the player some agency in the mostly auto-battle combat. That said, the hit box on the elite units that you battle is quite small, so maintaining your cursor on the elite is quite (too?) challenging. Might be a skill issue for me. Devs, this could be a nice option to change in settings for players Much of the descriptive text is unnecessarily small. Devs, I'd recommend increasing the size, or adding a UI scaling option. The game runs great on the Steam Deck using Proton Experimental. I mapped one of the back buttons to toggle the magnifier, and that helps with the tiny text. The game interfaces with the 2026 Steam Controller very well. I have the Windows Magnifier tool set to toggle on one of the back buttons, because you can't read the small text from the couch. I'm currently about 6 hours in. It looks like there are 13 increasingly difficult bosses. I have been unlocking new units as I progress through the game. I have currently unlocked 59/66 units, although is seems likely that the total number of available units will increase as I progress through the game. My W/L record for the bosses is so far: 1: 1/0 2: 1/6 3: 0/7 I spent a buck on the game, and have totally gotten more than a buck's enjoyment out of it. Should you buy it? Yes, if you have one of these control schemes available: - Steam Deck (and you don't mind using the magnifier) - Couch with 2026 Steam Controller, wireless mouse, or something like the Logitech K400 Plus (and you don't mind using the magnifier) - Sitting at a desk (and even there the descriptive text might be small - I'm not sure)