Mori Carta

There are so many cards in this game, and I can sense that there are definitely some exploitable balance issues, but that's the whole fun of this game. Finding ways to draft an insane unstoppable deck with different characters. I also love how every challenger has a different theme and unique cards of their own. Really fun game, I'm glad I got it. I only wish it was more flexible to pause a run, and come back to it later on desktop.

Love the game and concept. It could use some balancing and some counters are not fun to play against imo, but even me, not best card game player, have beat the boss twice already (still at the first character). For me its a missed opportunity from the dev not to have proper steamdeck support or a mobile version. But fair enough.

I really wanted to like this one. Like a lot of other reviewers have said, it's got some great ideas, but the implementation is just so janky. It's just too frustrating to spend an hour playing a run, start feeling like you've got a good deck built, and then run into a boss that hard counters your entire strategy and auto-kills you. It's out of Early Release now, but I'm still seeing art placeholders. There's virtually no help interface outside of the actual fights-- the progression map is unclear and inaccessible. The English language localization is... not amazing. I try not to ding a publisher too much for that, English is difficult for non-native speakers, but on top of everything else it just tells me that they should have stayed in development longer. Possibly a lot longer.

If you enjoy roguelikes such as Slay the Spire, Guild of Dungeoneering or Dungeons and Degenerates, than this might be something to check out. My only gripe is I wish there was a mobile version so I could play it on the go. There's a huge variety of cards and styles to play. And there's even more variety in the foes you face. But this also means there's a bit of a learning curve and at times the game can feel extremely tough/unforgiving. But that was part of the magic for me. Learning all the different foes and cards. And figuring out how I wanted to approach trying to beat them. I highly recommend trying it out.

> There's an issue that some enemies hard-counter some decks. So building a fun deck just doesn't work and you feel like losing is inevitable when you encounter these enemies > The devs make a mechanic to swipe left such fightsso you have some choice in which enemies you fight. Problem solved? > The mechanic doesn't let you skip 75% of fights, so you randomly lose most runs to this garbage anyway. Maybe you can build a deck so that it does a little bit of everything and does nothing interestingly and somehow survive all the hard-counter fights... But: 1. That's not fun. I want my mana-stack deck to win! I don't want to avoid all the best mana-stack cards because they lose to some random non-boss enemy 2. Being countered by random non-boss enemies is laaaaame This game had amazing potential and I actually found it very fun... at first. Then I realized it feels like the runs feel like a coin toss on whether or not you get hard-countered with little counter-play. 73 reviews right now. 1 reddit thread mentioning the game. Empty subreddit about the game with 1 post by the devs. 1 and a half videos about the game. Literally 0 Steam guides. Nobody cared about this game, and it's just so unfortunate, I wish the game was better because it had such potential

The Dev's have stated that the base idea is for you to use synergies to overcome the vastly better cards your enemies use. However to do this, you have to get lucky on card pulls between fights AND card ordering shuffle after shuffle during fights. And whatever synergy you come up with, the enemies WILL have a vastly superior card that synergies with your desk against you. And that's not even counting the "silver bullet" enemies (enemies focused on punishing a specific synergy) Each hero has a schtick that you will enjoy, right up until the silver bullet enemy you *will* fight ends your run because of your schtick sent it into overdrive. To be successful in this game, you need to magically draft the right cards to synergize, but not too much; to use your schtick, but to not use it at a moments notice. And your desk needs to beat the enemy in 3-5 reshuffles, so by endgame you're looking at needing to do 60ish damage a cycle. Aka, your schtick and synergy are just trap dead end paths. Build the best stupid punch face desk and don't get fancy. Edit: forgot the mention the abominable shuffle algorithm. Game after game, you'll see the same 3 cards will be in the same order and same back to back placement in the deck turn after turn. With another 6 months of tuning, this coulda been a good game, but it's now been a year since any updates and the dev's Discord is gone. This is a dead game, and I hope the devs learned lessons before their next one.

After playing the game more and together with a friend of mine, we cannot recommend it anymore, as it doesn't allow you to BUILD your deck. You can just RNG your deck mostly. Also, the amount of cards you can get/choose is low, adding to the luck factor and removing the build-your-deck factor. So in boss fights but even other fights too there is often an extreme mechanic that will just kill you off if you didn't luck out. All in all turning this potentially awesome game into a very frustrating experience. What's great about this game are the totally new and fresh takes on card mechanics: 1) enemy cards are mixed into your own cards and you draw them. 2) cards have mostly two alternative ways of usage, with implications. 3) you play only one card at a time and actually want your deck to grow instead of excising cards. The biggest disadvantage of this game is that you gain few cards and all card gain/upgrade rewards are heavily obscured, as in, 1) you cannot see your choices in advance, 2) upgrade aren't even upgrades but result in cards that have nothing in common/to do with your original base card, 3) some cards will just turn out forcing you into suicide at some much latter boss fight because the boss decides to use some very obscure mechanic that a specific card you picked up on the way unfortunately exactly happens to trigger w/o counterplay.

Video: https://youtu.be/QXaBO681wWM As a dude who doesn't play a lot of card battler style games, the fact that it kind've sucked me in for about 4 hours is pretty rad. Each of the characters you play as feel unique, which gives the game a large amount of replay value I'd say. As you play you unlock new cards. Getting new cards means you typically make it further each run. Earning cards. Rinsing, repeating, and it was surprisingly addictive. Overall, really cool card battler/deckbuilding game.