Hyperspace Deck Command

This game is a legitimate hidden gem. Yes, it's a roguelike deckbuilder, but before you start booing, it's an amazingly good example of the genre thanks to melding together the best bits from other games. In the same setting as the developer's other games you control a moon-sized megaship from an Iain Banks Culture-style fully automated luxury space communism society, on a mission to defeat a hegemonizing swarm which is invading the galaxy. Given that all the enemy ships are named things like 'Lawyer', 'Shareholder' and 'CEO', I think the developer is Making A Statement About Capitalism. Side note: the developer also lists the USD/hour amount he's made from the game in the card list ($1.40 currently, if you're interested), which I don't think I've ever seen before. There's some nice microfiction in the description of certain cards, like Missile Heaven, which is where the AI running missiles go when they explode. When you're in an encounter, there are four orbits (outer, median, inner and solar), with your megaship being permanently parked in solar orbit. Every turn, you can play a card and all units' timers count down (a bit like Wildfrost), with anything that reaches timer 0 acting. After a fixed number of turns, enemies move down towards your megaship (a bit like Monster Train, I think), and if they get into orbit with it, will attack every turn, though each megaship can generally defend itself. To stop the enemies, there are a wide variety of ships and tech cards from five different factions, each of which focuses on three different status effects. The combat is pleasantly kinetic, with ships firing on each other and missiles shooting out from your megaship when you play a card that represents it attacking, and there is an amazing amount of content and replayability here, with loads of things to unlock, optional difficulty modifiers, and a whole set of randomizers and alternate play modes unlocked after beating the 'real' final boss. The only thing I can say against it is that it's clearly been tuned with an eye to the hardcore fans as the default difficulty is pretty hard and to actually fight the last boss you need to turn on 20 points worth of additional difficulty modifiers, whereupon you get the pleasure of challenging an even more difficult set of enemies. Some builds will have absolutely no trouble with anything before the last boss and get bodied by the final encounter; you really need a heavily optimised set of cards to win.

更新：牛逼疯了快玩，等我打完真boss再更新评测 [hr][/hr] [h3] 这是一款50%雪居之地+20%怪物火车+30%别出心裁的创意的牌组构建Rougelike [/h3] [spoiler] 可能还有1%对远行星号的致敬（笑） [/spoiler] 本游戏的核心机制与雪居之地相差无几，甚至初上手会有一种强烈的“照搬”的感觉：按出牌推进的倒计时行动模式，使用至多三个挂饰（本作中为U盘）强化玩家各类卡牌的系统.... 新手接触的第一个流派“Low-Tech低科”中就有倍感亲切的“对敌方施加为延缓行动的雪球，对友方施加为加速行动的阳光”的“电能”效果。 与此同时也引出了本游戏核心差异特色：同一张卡牌上的效果取决于施加于敌我目标，可以是正面效果，也可以是负面效果。以最常见的游戏机制“护盾”为例，在本游戏中该效果为“力场”图标，施加于友方时体现为护盾，施加为敌方时体现为抑制（减少下一次攻击的伤害）。一张“造成1伤害并施加3力场”的卡牌既可以作为3-1点护盾为友方使用，也可以作为1点伤害+3点抑制的压制卡对敌方使用。这个机制大大增加了各种状态效果的操作灵活性，并将每个流派的主要状态效果精简到3种，与此同时各种效果交织相互作用提供了远超想象的战术自由度。 游戏中共有5种派系，每种派系各有3个指挥官、3个旗舰、3个辅助舰、3个母舰(Megaship)。指挥官提供一套初始战术牌组并能部署为一艘舰船提供独一无二的军官加成，旗舰和辅助舰组成了你舰队初期可靠的可部署战力，母舰的血量与效果各异并提供初始的主炮卡组。[b] 除了旗舰与指挥官派系绑定，辅助舰与母舰均可跨派系混搭。而你的游戏内卡池则同时包含指挥官和母舰所属派系的卡牌。[/b] 局内战场体验则更多融合了怪物火车的体验：场景中共四条轨道：远/中/近轨道，以及[spoiler] 锅炉房 [/spoiler] 恒星轨道 —— 停放着你的母舰。波次在这里既意味着新敌人从最外层轨道降临，也意味着所有在场敌人将向内侧轨道推进一层。一旦有敌人进入恒星轨道，便会和你的母舰展开每回合一次主炮互殴的“CQB近距离作战”【提示：母舰血可不会在战斗结束后自动恢复，至于炸了会怎样你猜（笑）】 [hr][/hr] [h1] 总结 [/h1] +++ 丰富的可玩内容和[spoiler] 踩着先辈的 [/spoiler]优秀的游戏设计 - 没有难度选项，也没有局外成长逃课；但提供战斗前自动保存，可以SL重新备战甚至还会随机敌人阵型 - 闪烁光污染+高饱和度色彩的画风 [spoiler] 以至于游戏内甚至提供改色彩饱和度的设置 [/spoiler] 和难以识别的游戏内UI无不在伤害着任何想要长期游玩的玩家眼睛 - （国区）[strike] 比雪居之地还贵的雪居之地like定价 [/strike] 降价了！快冲 - 没中文，[b] We need chinese! [/b] [h3] 如果你能接受它的以上缺点，这绝对是一款你不可错过的牌佬情书级作品 [/h3] 当然，你最好先试试雪居之地( ﾟ∀。)

Excellent. Deep rather than difficult, though at first you will be overwhelmed. But, it is very much worth taking the time to learn how the various elements work and interact with each other. After that, the depth of this game really shines, Note, this game has no expert streamers or guides, no card color rank/grades to hint at the power of a given card. It explains the systems well enough but doesn't guide you into whatever the optimal play is. Just lose and learn.

I feel like I've spent my entire playtime just trying to unlock something that will make it feel like I'm not being cheated by the gameplay. Sure, there's a ton of buff/debuff combos you can roll, but even getting a ridiculously overpowered set multiple times, I still die to *uncounterable* enemy compositions. What I mean by 'uncounterable' is that no combination of moves would survive the wave. The game lets you (without telling you) save once and return to whatever stage you're at, once per stage. I've used that multiple times right before losing a round to see if I could use my buff/debuff combos in another way from the start of the round... with the same results. And keep in mind, these are times when I've had overpowered loot or upgrade/card combos and thought to myself, for example, 'I'll try that wave again, must have missed something obvious, I'm getting 16 shield on a retaliatory ship per redraw... oh I can't kill the boss ships at all because they have more HP than my total deck/buff-debuff/ship damage output can even achieve.' face + palm. I don't feel like it's a lack of understanding of the game or bad choices, it's possible I've had an extremely poor extended RNG run. I will probably play more when I'm less annoyed with another no-win run, but only to see if I can unlock something that feels balanced. In all 9.7 hours I've made it to wave 7... once.

Hyperspace Deck Command is one of the best Roguelike Deckbuilder I ever play. While it's not going to hold the rank over Slay the Spire or other famous games, it's the game that do its own things really well. At its core it's a mash-up of Wildfrost and Monster Train with its own spin of dual-use status effect but unlike some mash-up games, its blended system is well-executed. [What I Like] Tactical combat in this game is just about right. There are rooms to maneuver but not too many or too little and enough granularity to give you different results. My favorite part is the completeness of space combat tropes. You have some standard shielded cruisers, fleet carriers, stealth ships, minelayers, boarding, radiological warfare, etc. [Something to be aware of] This game is pretty tough and unforgiving with some learning curves and you need to figure out some part that the game doesn't explicitly explain to you. Some runs can also go downhill quickly if you pick the wrong route or don't have a good answer for enemy gimmicks. Overall, it's a game worth dozen of hours with a lot to unlock that you can mix and match in your playthrough. It's two thumbs up recommendation from me.

Incredibly fun and satisfying deck-building roguelike with some (to my knowledge) genuinely innovative ideas. After about 180 hours I'm at 98% unlocks, just for context. This game solves, to me, one of the biggest flaws/frustrations with deck-builds/card games, and that is how often you get stuck in a situation where you can’t do anything useful. Drew a hand of cards with too-high mana cost? Tough ♥♥♥♥. Drew a hand with only ‘defend’ when the enemies aren’t even attacking? Tough ♥♥♥♥. With Hyperspace Deck Command’s dual status system, it’s extremely rare that you find yourself in a situation where you just can’t do anything useful, even if there are no enemies, you can buff your allies, and if all your ships are dead or retreated, then you can debuff the enemy, or hell, you can even use one tech card to buff another tech card in your hand. Combine this with the orbit/unit positioning system, which creates lots of interesting choices regarding which of your units you let take damage and which enemies you target, creating situations where you can play risky, letting a unit die so another can hit a high-threat enemy, or spread out damage to keep everything alive or use constructs for bait. The upgrade system (which a recent update made even deeper) is also really fun and lets you make some really really busted stuff, while generally being quite grounded (you don’t need to make some game-breaking thing to win a run, far from it). These choices, be it which cards i play where, how i place my units, or where i put what upgrade, are crucially not ‘A or B’ choices, but way more nuanced/multi-faceted. Do i buff the damage of my AoE ship, or my quick-acting multi-attack ship, or do i instead use it as a debuff on the enemy boss, or this weak enemy that is just barely going to survive and attack next round without the added damage-taken? So yes, if you like loads of crunchy and interesting choices in your deckbuilders, pick up HDC today! To me the main ‘cons’ for this game are two-fold: - The difficulty/learning curve. When I started playing, I lost a good number of runs in situations where I couldn't see how I was supposed to have been able to win, like the amount of enemy health, damage and actions left me no chance of victory. Since the game’s meta-progression is purely unlock-based, this sometimes left me feeling like the game was quite RNG-heavy and that if you didn’t get a good build going, you were just screwed. However, this is very much not the case. I can pretty reliably win runs now, both because the cumulative updates have made the game (slightly) easier, but also because i have way more knowledge and ‘feel’ for the game’s mechanics and encounters. I still count this as a flaw, as i imagine new players will still have that “I didn’t stand a chance” feeling, and i absolutely understand if some people bounce off the game after losing a string of runs with that feeling lingering. I wish the game could better communicate why you failed, but i also don’t see how it could go about doing that. - buff/debuff/faction balancing. This may get alliviated, and it is far from egregious (which itself should indicate the quality of the game) but there are some factions and their status effects which generally feel a step or two stronger or weaker than the others. Some of this could be ‘fixed’ just by adjusting some unit/card stats, but some of it is also just that the way certain buffs/debuffs work, mechanically, feels very weak/powerful, and there there might not be any clean way to bring them in-line with the others without changing something fundamental about that status effect’s mechanics. It’s nothing that breaks the game or faction, and even the weakest status effects have potent combos and strategies, but i leaves me feeling a little like i’m gimping myself by using faction A rather than B, at least if i’m going for maximum-difficulty unlocks.

Hyperspace Deck Command is a fun! It can be a little tough at first, but quite rewarding once you figure out your game plan. There are a large number of commander/flagship/megaship combinations to play-through. It has an awesome, different art style compared to what you typically see for this game genre. I like the deck building and numerous options. You have to be quite strategic working through your runs. A fun game to dump some hours in!

这个音效和音乐完美正中我的心巴 真的太帅了 唯一缺点就是没汉化 游戏玩法是雪居之地和怪物火车的结合 不过有一点挺气人的 就是强化增益 比如加护盾之类的不能给母舰（类似于火车的薪火）有些卡牌有双作用给我方和敌方分别是增益和减益 作者会出中文吗 求求了 我真的很喜欢这个。

Decided to give it a try based on whim and the sale, and now this game has its hooks sunk into me. The mechanics are all well thought out and complex enough to force the player to consider many variables at once, yet isn't overwhelming enough to be lost in the sauce. The only issue that I am having with the game so far seems to be the difficulty curve, especially after the first boss. Some mechanics on the enemies seem to be very difficult to counteract, like "Defensive Mines," and can cause in an auto loss for the run if you simply have the wrong build. And since there isn't a very large community surrounding this game yet (hopefully that changes overtime), I haven't been able to find any guidance to help with this spike. So if you get stuck, expect to fail a bit and problem solve on your own for a bit to progress.

Hands down one of the most interesting, well designed deck builder games I've ever played. Everything is unlocked by leaning into the strengths of each faction (or combination), giving a dizzying array of options and build paths. The game is *just* hard enough to really push you to get synergies rolling and the writing is honestly hilarious. If you like deck builders at all you should buy this.