Moonsigil Atlas

Nothing wrong with the game that I could see yet, I simply don't like it. I don't think this game does anything actually different from the usual spirelike formula. Superficially it's different, but the underlying mechanics are exactly the same. If you're looking for something different, I don't think this is it. I've recently played Vault of the Void, which I think does something different, despite the similarity to spirelikes. Your deck is always 20 cards, you can modify your deck before battle, you don't auto-discard your hand at end of turn. These simple changes completely change how you approach it I think, improving consistency within battles and within runs. But in Moonsigil, you still draw 5, auto-discard and do the same motions as in Spire. Your energy is now simply the board space. I think they went a bit overboard with all the board-changing effects. In general I consider these "play less"-effects. You know, when difficulty ramps up, you find less rare (=interesting) cards, you lose pathways etc. This game applies that philosophy to the combat encounters quite frequently. Like: If you don't fill up the board on your first turn, you're gimped. If you don't cover some areas, take damage. The board gets broken into pieces. It gets filled with blocks. Etc. Not sure there's a single encounter where you can simply test your deck freely. The game plays quite slowly. This probably improves as you get more familiar with the shapes, but the bosses especially are a total unfun slog. Then there's the RNG of course. Enemy dealing megapunch and didn't start with blocks? Sucks to be you. An innovation to me would be how to fix the inter-run and inter-battle consistency (for example by not auto-discarding hand). It still seems like you hope for good cards on the card-removal path, and if it doesn't happen, sucks to be you. Sadly this seems to be a completely accepted design nowadays. But in actual rogue-likes the design was generally that if you don't find the Armageddon Sword in the first room, you can play more cautiously and still succeed. In rogue-lite deckbuilders the option to run away was removed and now there's this. And the players simply seem to say that it's cool. I admit though I only started thinking about this more after playing Vault of the Void. Perhaps I never should have. But if you don't mind any of that, get this game. There are interesting effects and interactions and the characters seem different enough. Each has three starting loadouts, which also make them play differently. Just don't expect anything radically far out. And also, I only played a little bit, so...

Le jeu m'a été offert par un ami qui a raid ma whishlist. Moonsigil Atlas réussi à vraiment bien exploiter son concept central : le plateau plutôt que les points d'action. Cette partie là est très réussie : le puzzle spatial qui en découle est ingénieux et les variations d'effets de cartes sont nombreuses et intéressantes. C'est aussi rafraichissant, et pour les amateurs du genre c'est vraiment bienvenue ! Les combats contre les ennemis sont eux aussi réussis, chaque (groupe) d'ennemis a une logique propre, certains sont très retors, certains déplace la difficulté la ou on s'y attend pas... Les découvrir et apprendre a les vaincres fut un plaisir. Chaque personnage (couleur de deck) apporte une vraie variété dans le gameplay, et ont également différentes approches viables en terme de deckbuilding pour vaincre une partie. Il y a des decks plus exigeants que d'autre pour vaincre, et donc on peut un peu "choisir" sa difficulté. Point faible : la structure des parties reste très convenue, il n'y a pas vraiment de rencontre intéressantes comme un Slay the Spire, pas de mécanismes révolutionnaire pendant un run. A titre personnel, je trouve également que le thème astral du jeu est un peu insipide en terme de narration, bien que très sympa visuellement ! Conclusion : A jouer si on veut se confronter à un gameplay nouveau dans un roguelike deck-builder, pour la profondeur du gameplay réellement plaisante en combat !

I love it because it scratches that traditional puzzle inlay scratch in me. Based on the setting, I feel that those who likes the manga/anime witch hat atelier might actually enjoy this game's premise.

Combines rogue like deck building with a triangle grid placement that "matters". It matters where you place your stuff in relation to your other stuff and the grid itself and the defend zones. Great steamdeck game too.

Jeu particulièrement addictif, il mêle Tétris, Hearstone et RogueLike ensemble.

A card game in the StS tradition but with a twist in that the cards you play are shapes or 'sigils' that need to be artfully combined on the game board. I have been having a good time with this.

Slay the Spireをエナジー形式ではなくマス埋め形式にしたゲームです。３キャラの特徴も明確で、攻撃力を伸ばしていくのか、マス目を全て埋めるのか、デバフと即死or連続炎上で攻撃力を爆増させるかという具合にキャラごとにプレイスタイルが全く異なるのも攻略し甲斐があります。 カードのアップグレードも 「形を削る」 「形を入れ替える」 「攻撃力を増加させる」 「防御力を増加させる」 「１ターン目に配置する」 とバラエティに富み、プレイヤーのデッキ構成と戦略性が試される仕組みになっています。敵のデバフも、多様性があり、ゲームシステムは非常に独創的で優れている点は本当にすばらしいです。 ただし、「月蝕」という８段階の難度向上モードの設計が微妙です。難度が上がるほど超マゾな運ゲーと化します。本当にツマラナイ。評価を「おすすめしない」にしようか迷うくらいにつまらなくなります。 初期カードはほぼゴミ同然のため、早い段階で主力カードだけでなく、それと相性の良いカード、さらに防御力カードまでもが揃わないと１層目のボスにすら到達できない確率が高くなります。月蝕６からは、そうしたカードが揃っていていも、毎ターン配られるカードが良い組み合わせでないとザコ戦で死にます。しかも１層目のザコ戦で死ぬと、次回の初期ボーナスの選択肢が「最大ＨＰ上昇」か「最初の２回の敵を倒す」の２択で固定されてしまうため、１層目を突破できないループから抜け出すのが難しくなります。 戦略ゲームとして遊ぶならば「月蝕」は１～４に留めた方がよいでしょう。 総評すると、定価で買う価値はないというのが正直な感想です。半額くらいになるまで待てばよかった。ゲームシステムは独創性があって本当にすばらしいんですけどね。