Luck & Loot

I WANT to like it. I really do. The pixel art is good, the gameplay itself is fun. And there's a lot of different attacks and effects to add to your dice. But there are so many baffling choices that turn an enjoyable game into something just...not good. The First: Every enemy after the first fight has some way to ignore your Armor and harm your Health directly. Not 'past the first dungeon'. I mean as early as the second fight in the dungeon you start every run in, mobs start having one or more of the following, all of which ignore Armor: * Pierce is damage that just ignores armor. * Poison is a damage over time effect where the stacks = damage. IE: 4 stacks of Poison means you take 4 damage at the start of your turn, and then it lowers by 1. * Bleeding is the same as Poison, only it does not decrease after damaging you. It's just on you for the entire fight, and enemies can apply more stacks. * Burning, again, damages your HP. * There is an attack BASIC MOBS can have, called 'Punch', that applies 1 stack of Bleed...unless you attack on the same turn it's queued; Then it gets +2 stacks of Bleed per attack you use. Now this would not be THAT bad...Except I never saw any skills that reduce status effects until I unlocked the Ranger. Meaning the starting Warrior class has no way to mitigate all this health damage. Because there's no potions. No equipment (Technically, your equipment is what you add to a Die's face so it's rolled in combat). No Trinkets that bestow immunities that I found. And all these effects are applied REGARDLESS of the attack applying it being blocked or not. So no, blocking the Vampire Boss's attack that does 4 damage & applies 5 stacks of Bleed WILL NOT negate the application of Bleed. There IS, however, two attacks that apply Stun that I found. But they, too, have drawbacks: * They can only be used once per battle. So after stunning a monster once, that face on the die is a blank until you finish combat. * The stunned monster DOES NOT reroll his die after being stunned. meaning you did not AVOID the attack. You just pushed it back a turn. * All bosses roll 2 attacks. And they are activated from left to right. And so is Stun. So if a Boss' rightmost attack is going to apply 5 stacks of Bleed, you need two stun that round to stop it...Sorry, to push it back a round. Oh, and let's do some math here: You have, maybe, around 27 health when you first start. A decent run can get you into the 40's if you're lucky. But many mobs can apply 5 stacks of Bleed, or Poison. Or a fight will have 2-3 mobs all applying different damage over time effects. So 5 stacks of Poison, reducing each around, is an unavoidable 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 damage. That's 15 damage. That's a large amount of your HP. ----------------------------------------- And the second utterly baffling decision is that you become 'Fatigued' if a combat goes into Round 8 and above. In a game where you CAN and WILL have bad rolls where you either roll blanks; roll armor when you don't need it; roll healing when you (rarely) don't need it; or just roll a lot of healing and armor you need. And each combat round from 8 and up will damage you, then apply vulnerability, then damage you for a larger amount, etc. Basically, the devs want you to win every combat in under 8 rounds. When there can be up to 3 opponents. And I've only seen ONE skill that hits everyone, and it applies a status effect, not damage. And enemies can replenish their armor. And heal. And one can rez fallen enemies at 50% HP. Oh! And as I said above; There are attacks, like Punch (But it's not the only one), that hit harder if you use certain skills when it's queued. Meaning you may have to skip attacking to avoid high damage or 6+ DoT stacks. Or skip healing when every mob is going to paste you because Healing will inflate an attack, or skip regaining Armor for the same reason. Oh! And there's the Turtle enemy that starts with a whopping 30 Armor. And can replenish it. And if you play a defensive/armor skill while his armor skill is queued, he will get stacks of damage reduction. So you're expected to win in under 8 turns while the game does it's absolute best to ensure that does not happen. ---------------------------------------------------- And the thing that absolutely floored me about it? Both the Fighter and the Ranger have sub-classes that are described as being methodical or careful in combat, with starting dice that are geared towards a slower play style. ...When the game outright punishes you for playing too slow. The Fighter's second subclass unlock is really silly, because it's all about replenishing Armor and being a tank. See the start of this review for the line 'Every enemy after the first fight has some way to ignore your Armor and harm your Health directly' as to why that is silly. ------------------------------------------------------ I mean, I got the game on sale, so I'm not upset over the $4 I paid. I'm just sad that the foundations of the game are so enjoyable, while some really baffling design choices completely destroy that enjoyment. Other folks may enjoy it. No shade on them. But for me, everything I said above just makes the game unenjoyable. It probably should be a little telling that you don't unlock characters by WINNING a run, but by making it to the final dungeon. At least, that's how Ranger was unlocked for me; I died in the final dungeon and was rewarded with him being unlocked.

[quote] Please consider following my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41005226/]Curation page[/url]. I cover a wide range of genres both paid and unpaid, providing unbiased opinions as well as regular giveaway events. [/quote] [b]Video Review TBD[/b] https://youtu.be/ktUAzq81d8k [h2]I Don't Agree With a Lot[/h2] For a game called Luck and Loot, there isn’t much of either. The loot consists of dice faces you can add to your dice to create a deck of dice. You might call that luck, but it’s not really. Each encounter gives you a bunch of rerolls, letting you build dice with a 50–75% chance of landing the face you want. I built a dice that would always land on a critical, and that critical was an arena-wide slash. It made the entire run trivial. After trying other classes, nothing came close to the power of that one-shot build, so I quickly lost interest. Each stage is set in a biome and filled with similar enemies. By Stage 3 or 4, difficulty spikes sharply, but it’s not something you can patiently work around. That’s why the massive AoE slash became essential. Every time I reached this point, I lost interest. The game isn’t about RNG or luck in a meaningful way, and there’s no real system to build up your hero. I expected gear drops to deck out my character, different swords, staffs, bows, helmets, kind of like Loot Hero or something like that, but instead you get relics that grant passives or bonus effects. It’s underwhelming. [h2]Conclusion[/h2] I wanted more gamble elements, more RNG, more variety and replay value. Instead, I found myself forced into repeating the same builds every run to succeed. That’s not what I want from a game called Luck and Loot.

I find this very boring when compared with the excellent [b]Slice & Dice[/b] and it's hard not to draw comparisons. Meh.

Hadn't Realised this wasn't popular tbh, def worth 4-5 euros on sale, kept my attention enjoyably for my 1 euro an hour rule

Du tour par tour avec des dés fun, pixellisés et suffisamment addictif pour se faire plusieurs parties à la suite.

Yanda filmimi, dizimi izleyimciler için iyi bir seçenek olabilir. 3. kahraman özelinde artık rogue-lite temelindeki tekrar mekaniği eşya çeşitliliği ile çıkmaza girerek 15. saat sınırlarında doyurdu. Demosunu 7,6 saat oynamıştım. Son dönemde bu tip oyunların demo dengelerini çok başarılı buluyorum. [spoiler]2026 ilkbahar indirimlerinde; kitchen wars - luck & loot paketi ile ek %25 indirimli satın aldım. (kitchen wars adlı oyunu bir dönem sınırlı süreliğine ücretsiz yapmışlardı) -50% + -25% = 3,37 -> 2,24 -> $1,68 ödedim. [/spoiler]

Ya know.. I don't hate it. That said, I rage quit after my first playthrough and now I realize it's one of those games that might be impossible to beat on the first playthrough, and through constant failure the game unlocks perks and things get easier. Part of me despises that tactic of force replicability. That said.. the game is made pretty well, it's not expensive. The game loop is interesting enough with some good RNG. So, thumbs up. I'll keep hacking away at it for a bit.

Brilliant. This and "he is coming" are the only roguelikes ive really enjoyed in the past year or so. This game will be very popular when ppl catch on

✔ simple, although effective dice gameplay ? punished for playing slowly/methodically (not just the standard 'less runs per hour', but also making each combat progressively more difficult as it goes on) ✘ useless rewind button, which doesn't help when you mistakenly used an ability instead of re-rolling ✘ unlocks per character (your first 1-2 runs with any new character are significantly weakened) ✘ RNG-heavy It lacks long-term depth and the unlock system is annoyingly slow, hurting replayability. But overall I had fun for it for a few runs.

[code] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36948155-Card-Game-KING/] FOR MORE CARD AND BOARD GAMES FOLLOW US [b]CARD GAME KING [/b][/url] [/code] Luck and Loot doesn't really live up to its name. The loot is limited and luck factor is restricted through rerolls. But really, the two biggest issues are not those, but the required meta progression and lack of variety between runs. Winning your first run feels impossible because the game is balanced around getting stronger through meta progression. Worse still, progression is separate for each character which only invites more unnecessary grind. Together they make the game a real grindfest. The second issue is that bosses are exactly the same and content tiny. Knowing which bosses you will fight invites some strategizing, but given the grind-heavy nature of the game, it becomes stale, very, very quickly. The combat itself is kinda of ok, but rerolling dice each and every round of every single battle, is just tedious. The dice crafting is what pulled me towards the game as I loved Astrea, and I expected it to be the single saving grace. Unfortunately, with only 4 dice, limited loot and combo opportunities, the dream of dice crafting a monster build never truly materializes. Luck and Loot had some good foundations and ideas but its limited scope amd grindy gameplay produced a very repetitive experience. [h1][b]Favorite mechanics[/b][/h1] • Dice crafting although it's very limited [h1][b]The positive[/b] [/h1] + Plenty of luck mitigation [h1][b]The neutral[/b][/h1] * Only 4 dice keeps the game simple, but limits combos [h1][b]The negative[/b][/h1] - Battles take too long - Meta progressions is required - Overall very grindy and repetitive [h1][b]Conclusion:[/b] [/h1] L&L was a disappointing, grindy experience that had some great ideas behind the thick, brick wall for which you're only given a spoon. Not recommended, 6/10.