Into The Grid

Very cool deckbuilder with a *lot* more strategy and planning needed for the between-combats parts than any other that I've seen. Risk-management and resource management are vital to success, and the trace/alarm system puts an imposing clock on everything (though the most recent early access patch sort of nerfed that clock, I'm expecting it to be fiddled with more as they go). Combat mechanics are pretty good too, and the in-combat visuals are great. There's ineteresting and unique mechanics which will be relevant every run, with all enemies getting 1-3 allies of varying threat/utility and the player having a special meter that can be utilized with several different strategies. One downside is that all that resource management makes runs much slower and longer than they are in most games. You can't just trace out the best choice from several routes on a map, you have to plan out every move and restrategize every few nodes.

Into the Grid has a solid foundation and a lot of promise to become one of the greats. There are two characters so far with a third on the way, and they tap into all the familiar deck styles like draw spam, discard spam, tutoring, amplification, and so on. The battles take place in first-person view, and one thing I think the devs do extremely well is incorporating camera work into the enemies' moves, with the camera jumping around to track swift opponents and recoiling when struck by heavy hitters. It's very grounded. The player's own moves are implied with VFX cues, very responsive with menu options to adjust their speed. Navigating the clusters and layer is done in isometric view, and players have a tremendous amount of lateral authority to pick their battles once they get the hang of it. Though I will say that a lot of overworld strategizing feels necessary to succeed. Most of the "planning 40 turns ahead" mentality is in the overworld, actually. The battles are relatively straightforward if you have a good deck, but getting a good deck involves pursuing the fewest number of battles in order to open up the most number of doors in order to pick from nodes in an ideal order. I like this and don't think it should change, but I can understand if some people might need to adjust to that. The card art is all cool, and weird, and beautiful, and cyberpunk as hell. One of my big hopes for the game is that we get an option to appreciate it in greater detail during a battle if we want, and have ways to show our favorite cards some love like with foils and extra VFX. As far as UI and UX goes, I'd say that the only big issue I ran into is high-draw decks becoming almost impossible to select cards from with precision. I had a couple of mistaken plays here and there with 20+ in hand despite being mindful of this. Perhaps exact duplicates could condense into a stack after x3 are present, or something like that. But even if it's never changed, thank you for letting me draw 80 bajillion cards! Draw caps are boring! I wanna crash my computer from drawing so many cards!!! On that note it plays smoothly for the most part, but I've noticed what I'm pretty sure is a memory leak as the run progresses. Diving deeper into new layers, adding cards to your deck, and even winning battles seems to compound the issue. Near the end of a 4-hour run with Darwin with a 30+ card deck, adding a new card made the game chug for a solid 4 seconds to think about it real hard. This was also a spam deck and just drawing and discarding it all began to make the game stutter. So I saved and rebooted the game, and that calmed it down.

Very fun deckbuilder with a cyberpunk theme. The new updates have added a lot of functionality and progression systems that really augment the gameplay and replayability.

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2026/07/08 大きめのアプデ入ったのでレビュー一新 ■まとめ ログワイパーでの追跡0化が強すぎて攻略がワンパターン化。 ひどく簡単になりました（ノードを使用するまでずっと追跡0で敵を倒せる） 今後高難易度モード導入予定らしいのでそれからな気がします。 現状はワンパンクソゲーですが、それはそれで爽快感があって面白いのでお勧め。 ■概要 サイバー空間で敵を撃退しつつ3つのエリアをクリアするデッキ構築型ローグライト。 一定回数何かをすると敵が強化され、進行が困難になる。 なので重要度を理解してないとあっという間にゲームオーバーになる。 ただし慣れたらカード1枚でワンキル可能になる。 アンロック前提のゲームバランス。 パッシブや能力値が増えると格段に楽になる。 アンロック無しでのクリアは無限ループもどきをするしかない。 アンロックは少ししただけで勝てるようになる。 でもフルアンロックはかなり遠く、100時間は覚悟しないといけないかもしれない。 カードのアンロックはすぐに済むけど、パッシブが重たい（別にいらないけど） 半分以上のパッシブは役に立たない。 カードの効果はかなり個性的で基本的にどれも強い。 初期デッキで十分とか特定のカードが引けないと勝てないということもない。 ドライバというレリックというか追加パッシブも強力。 ただしこちらは引きによっては何の役にも立たないことも。

Spent nearly an hour just on a run to finally get some new cards and upgrades near the end. One, ONE playable stage, with different difficulties. And it's gets old very quickly. Game is very pretty but honestly isn't worth it.

Pretty, but convoluted. Does too much, too early, and with unintuitive design choices making it difficult to want to pay much attention beyond my first couple hours in. Gave it a few tries, and it just never felt comfortable - quite the opposite, I felt uncomfortable with the UX, the terminology, and the fight sequences the entire time. Pretty though.

tl;dr It is a "game" in the sense that it runs and you can do things. I would skip unless you are really into the vibe, or want to see someone (either skillfully or unitentionally it's not clear) "nerf" most of the mechanics in normal card games to make a repetitive/grindy/dark souls like-experience. It's possible that they just don't have much content and are trying to make the game a grind to make you feel like your money's worth at which point the game could easily become more about the deck building and less about the player skill in the non-deck building elements (knowledge of monster attack patterns, the fiddly totally unexplained way that deck shuffing seems to work, when to trigger skills, how and when items to affect the map) and raw meta progression. (As an example... imagine that the way you advanced in magic was buying upgrades to double or triple your starting health... stuff like that). I think that also, perversely, unlocking the "wrong" card packs probably makes the game harder? Since you only get 2-3 card choices per run before your health is so low that you have to prioritize survival and avoiding combat. ---- I'd ideally like to make this a bit more neutral. But it's probably best to say that this is a tech demo. The "bones" of a game are here. You have some cool monsters (with kind of techmagical spirit creature vibe), some kind of creative (again quasimagical/spiritual feeling) modifiers that turn up on runs. The writing is good in a few spots. They have an interesting, if completely bizarrely named, 2nd currency (called VIM) that acts as a break point for changing how some cards work, and also lets you "spend" it to use certain skills. What it doesn't have is actual deck building mechanics. In principle you're they have cards and stuff, but there is almost no card removal, (I think I saw in once in maybe 10 runs) and it's quite hard to add new cards. Often it's kind of like playing the first hand of dominion over and over again and making tiny little optimizations to shave a round off of clearing monsters. So it feels a little bit more like a deck builder, dark souls game? However there are only 5-6 monster types? And the optimizations are kind of annoying. And the cards you add are just incredibly powerful. Card draw is gimped since your deck only reshuffles at the begining of the round, so if you start off with 0 cards in your deck then card draw (and most of the skills are card draw related) just doesn't work.