Kingdom Draw

This game has potential, and I want to like it, but right now, it just seems clunky and unbalanced. General critiques: -While I appreciate the lack of a scripted tutorial where they hold your hand and walk you through every turn, some sort of primer on the general rules of the game or a glossary would be nice. It certainly wasn't difficult to figure out what the numbers on each card meant or that most units can move two spaces per turn, but having that written somewhere would be nice. Other examples: maximum hand size, how many cards are left in your deck, what happens when your deck runs out, the fact that you can scroll to rotate the map. -I don't know how many campaign levels there are and if the early ones are meant to be difficulty-gating, but of the four factions, I was only able to beat the first quest with two of them. On the second quests and the other two factions, I was on the defensive the entire time before getting my ass handed to me or surrendering out of despair. -Given that you normally only get one card and one gold per turn, it seems unfairly hard to make a comeback when you're on the defensive. You spend three turns waiting to get enough gold to play one unit; if you're lucky, it'll take out one of your opponent's units before it dies. Meanwhile, your opponent is gaining gold 2-3 times as fast as you because they control a village(s), allowing them to play units more frequently or play stronger units. -Given that the deck size is exactly 40 cards, giving players 40 copies of each starting card seems excessive. I didn't look to see how many cards are in the game, but given that the starting decks only have ~6 different cards in them, the deck size of 40 itself seems excessive; the only effect it has is to decrease the likelihood of drawing one different card you may have gotten from a booster pack. -Certain abilities seem overpowered: --Regeneration: Unit restores to full health each turn, often seen on creatures with a lot of hit points to begin with. Unless you have a creature with Lethal, you pretty much just have to muster all of your forces to attack it on the same turn. --Vampirism: After winning a battle, unit gains +1 attack and +1 maximum HP AND restores to maximum HP. Only countered by Lethal. I would suggest changing to gain +1 attack and restore 1 HP --Siege: Unit deals 50 damage to the castle. Not only does this seems excessive as I have not seen the castles to have more than 30 HP, but it is also seemingly overpowered to have units that will just win the game in one attack. Recommend changing to dealing double (triple?) damage to castles --Lurking: I thought this would just let the unit treat water as normal terrain until I saw the AI move his unit across the entire map because this apparently lets you move between any two water spaces that are connected by a river. Recommended fixes/features: -When you have too many cards in your hand, you can't see the lower left corner of the map; the same is true of your opponent with the upper left. Recommend adjusting layout. -While you can scroll to rotate the map, it only goes counterclockwise no matter which way you scroll. Recommend making one way go counterclockwise and the other go clockwise. -Quests in ladder matches only progress if you win, which seems to put a needless barrier in the way of progression - good players will keep completing quests, while weaker players have an even harder time gaining materials to improve their deck. Recommend allowing quest progression even if you lose. -Two of my three ladder matches timed out. Agree with proposed solution of providing some gems or something if this happens. I understand that this is a new release, and so there are kinks to be worked out. As it is now though, the game is simply too punishing to be fun for me, I'll likely give it a go in another few months and see if there have been any changes.