NET.CRAWL

A satisfyingly different strategic "deckbuilder" that's about slowly building synergies and exploiting grids in weird ways. It has a bit of Hoplite in it, if you ever played that on iOS. Each level is a turn-based, tile-based challenge of some kind, but rather than just defeating enemies you're usually solving a problem that's much more unusual, affecting how you move, or how you activate tiles, or how you spend or gain resources. Every level has felt quite different so far, and that's before you take into account the synergies of the tiles you're adding to your pool, the bonuses you're adding on top, or the items and resources you're stocking up. I've only seen the first bits of the game but I've enjoyed it a bunch.

Frankly, I am kicking myself for not having paid more attention to this game. I played the demo a while ago and thought it was decent, so I put it on my wishlist. But I then took forever to actually make the purchase. I finally picked it up on a slow day, and I don't know why I waited so long. This is such a unique take on the roguelite "deck-building" genre. It oozes style. Quick, snappy turns with an option space that avoids decision paralysis. Deep build variety and potential make synergistic runs feel incredible. There is massive variety in content from system grids, data grids, cores (enemies), and aspects (perks), so I don't see the game running out of content for a long time. And the developer is currently and actively adding more to the game, all for less than $10. Truly, highly recommended.

游戏底子很好，机制有趣，具有挑战性，作为一个玩过30多款rouge游戏的玩家来说，这游戏很有潜力，demo我就玩了很久，但目前的抢先版的内容还比较匮乏，重复游玩价值不够，以及有一些小问题亟待优化，以下是我的一些建议： 1.游戏的设计方向要更偏向于rouge卡牌而不是解谜，格子是暗的并且随机排列，重复次数有限，玩家并不是规划最佳解法去解题，而是成长卡组，针对不同机制的boss根据运气来牌去抉择出牌，只有一点解谜的味道在里面，本质还是rouge卡牌，因此后续的更新一定要把rouge性能做得更好。 2.建议引入问号事件，让玩家在走图时更有惊喜感和选择，保留几个重要的地图配置，其余都可以换成问号事件，事件设计的多一些更有想象力一些。 3.引入更多的机制扩充游戏内容，比如补丁，可以放在各个系统上使其获得加成，可以搭配出强力的组合，让玩家能爽起来，同时诅咒补丁也可以存在。机制多了地图也可以稍微拉长一些，无尽也可以做了。 4.引入更多的难度选择，比如1-10阶，每一阶只增加一个负面，难度曲线更加顺滑，也可以让玩家更多的重开，不断爬升享受成就感。 5.适当做一点宣传，比如在社交平台上请一些游戏up玩玩，我就是从B站看到的，不然好游戏很难被注意点。 6.一些文字没有翻译，没有图鉴，一些东西首次遇到并没有解释（比如腐化特性里加入的是什么），系统池的方格设计太让人难受了，系统和数据的获取地图块可以都放在商店里。

Рекомендую! Игра Net.Crawl является стратегическим рогаликом, довольно хардкорная и затягивающая. Теперь конкретно про игру, мне очень понравилась рисовка, общий стиль, и музыкальная часть, обычно я выключаю фоновую музыку в играх после первых часов игры, тут же музыка не надоедала, и подходила под настроение в игре, единственное хотелось бы еще побольше различных мелодий на прохождение. Рисовка прям радовала глаз, игровой процесс плавный, приятный. Игра имеет сильный порог вхождения, нужно поработать мозгами чтоб разобраться и влиться в игровые механики. С каждым последующим боссом игра становится все хардкорнее, последний босс вообще жесть.. Но с большими усердиями я его прошел, что не забываемо) Теперь, что не хватает игре. Что нужно поменять на мой взгляд. Самое главное сделать перезапуск уровня бесконечным. Ограничение перезапусков просто ведет к тому, что я постоянно пере заходил на уровень через выход в меню, и для меня это действовало как перезапуск. Да и с такой сложностью игры, ограничение перезапусков ведет к вообще демотивации стараться и пробовать множества раз. Особенно последнего босса я проходил часов 5 точно, и количество перезапусков перевалило за 200 раз точно, я не хотел перезапускать весь ран, действовал по билду, что получился изначально. Считаю, что это и есть фишка игры, когда ты методом тыка как нейросеть пытаешься добиться цели, подбирая наилучший путь прохождения уровня. Еще бы как то переработать выбор сложности, Потому как лайт сложность от обычной отличается не сильно и то, только на старте рана чувствуется. Дойдя до конца первого рана, где я одолел трех боссов, оказалось, что для последующего прохождения нужно было накопить 10 кристаллов, об этом не предупреждалось заранее, и мне пришлось бы пере проходить все заново. Поэтому, такое условие должно быть где то помечено, чтоб игрок осознанно готовился и копил свои кристаллы. Теперь по сюжету. Задумка интересная, хотелось бы узнать повествование героя, почему зайчик, тем более образ запоминается в голове и является лицом игры. Также более глубже узнать про мир в игре и определенную завязку в сюжете. Еще игра начинается с рисованной заставки, но после прохождения такой заставки не хватает. На мой взгляд если бы, заставка начиналась со сценки, где человек включает компьютер и на экране у него как раз проявляется этот цифровой мир, то было бы как то легче новичку влиться в игровую атмосферу. А потом игровой процесс и так по уши затягивает игрока. Очень сильно бы подогревали интерес и разряжали геймплей, нарисованные кат сцены, которые вели бы дальше по сюжету. Игра еще в раннем доступе, очень надеюсь на допил сюжета, исправления парочки моментов и добавления еще боссов.

An actually unique feeling roguelike "thing"

从Playtest一路玩了有30小时，还是很有意思的。

TLDR: try the demo if you like roguelikes that demand slow, careful, tactical decision-making, but the long term deckbuilding/strategic layer is still present and solid. It's a crime that a game of this quality has 20 reviews and was hidden so deep in my discovery queue. Just play the demo if you like roguelikes and you'll know within 10 minutes if this game is for you. There's enough content even in early access that I expect to play this game for 20-40 hours to "see it all", meaning get a few wins at the highest difficulty, defat every boss, and use most of the apparent archetypes in at least a few winning runs. If this game was released as is I'd still recommend it at the current price tag. This is a solid experience with unique mechanics focused around movement and managing a few different resources. Each enemy changes the rules or adds constraints to the puzzle. UI/UX/sound are polished and clean. Despite the deckbuilding tag, I find myself likening this game to Into the Breach: in my experience so far, your short-term, tactical, micro decision making is more important than your long term, strategic, macro deckbuilding decisions, though there are still plenty of keywords, archetypes, and synergies in the "deckbuilding" part. Expect slow and careful gameplay, mousing over all of the tiles and rereading their descriptions and keywords over and over again as you plan out the best sequence of moves. So far at standard difficulty, I've been able to extract nearly 100% of value out of every level while risking nothing, ending the run with 0-2 hearts lost total, despite never using a consumable item and making purposefully suboptimal decisions to learn. But at the next difficulty, most of my runs require me to triage unless I get off to an extremely strong start, and I've started to pick up some losses. It's early access, and there are a few keyword/node descriptions that are not totally clear, a handful of typos, and I've experienced one node that seems to just not work. All of this is very forgivable. Some feedback since this is still early access: figuring out how to increase asymmetry between runs is what will change this from something I'll enjoy for 30 hours to something I might keep coming back to for a hundred+. Most deckbuilders that don't have different card pools for different characters suffer the same problem, and while the randomized talent tree (I can't remember what it's called in game) is a good stab at this, my decision making doesn't change as much as I'd like from run to run. The way card drafts are earned currently, it seems taking an upgrade whose geometry allows you to replace more starter nodes (blue) or empty nodes (green) will almost always be a stronger choice than an upgrade containing a highly synergistic node or upgrade but whose geometry doesn't slot in as neatly. But maybe I'll find this opinion less valid as I play more at higher difficulties. As a result, I often get a lot of the same generically good tiles every run, even if the synergistic tiles are still the best choice when they don't come with tradeoffs. Still, a very strong recommendation to at least try out the demo.

This review is a bit long - so skip along if you don't want a detailed take. [b]Disclaimer[/b] In full transparency, the dev reached out to me to give an opinion on this title based on a negative review I had written for another game. He wanted to know what my perceptions would be of this title. Everything I write below is my honest take, with pros and cons, but if that interaction bothers you - you should skip my review and consider others. [b]Pros[/b] This is a very solid Roguelike that did not grip me aesthetically. I have been aware of this project for some time and initially dismissed it as something that did not look that interesting to me. Having played a few hours of it, there are some things that make it a solid entry for consideration and if you like its potential, you should definitely give this one a shot. The demo is generous and very representative of the game, and the price is very accessible and fair for what it is. First of all, the gameplay loop is really tight and quick. The game is very self-paced and you can play it as quickly as you can make your plan and make decisions. Run times are variable to your speed of decision making, but I'd argue you can get through them in 30-60 minutes pretty comfortably regardless of your pacing. Level and boss design gets a good nod for this game. The foundation of the game permits some pretty varied conditions and you will need to adjust your play to a variety of unconventional situations to play the bosses and mini-bosses. The encounters all feel pretty impactful and there aren't really any filler levels or encounters, they are all pretty distinct and require you to thoughtfully engage from start to finish. In my few hours of playing, I didn't really see any repeat encounters either through fortune or depth of content. [b]Cons[/b] So - with all of those positives, why is this not a game I am sinking 100 hours into? For all of the things that make this game positive, it can also make it a bit tedious. I found the boss and unit descriptions to be a bit muddy to understand and found myself rereading and searching their attributes multiple times to try to make sure I understood how they operated. Even after that, I found that I had misunderstood and made blunders as a result. The initial difficulties are forgiving in that they let you reroll the level, so it wasn't run-ending, but it was a little aggravating. I pride myself on having above average reading comprehension, and misunderstood the mechanics of multiple enemy units. To be fair to the dev, once I understood the mechanic, I can see that the descriptions were grammatically correct. Nevertheless, it is worth acknowledging that I believe the average player is going to learn how these encounters work by blundering on them first. The game also has very few keywords within it, but a ton of mechanics. Your relics and cards (for lack of a better term) can all have dramatically different behaviors and it can be a bit difficult to keep up with all of your capabilities. There is a moderate-high level of complexity here which will be appealing for many, but as a result this is very much a "brain on" kind of game and it is difficult to relax and play casually. This is neither a pro or a con per se, but it does demand you come into it with the proper mindset. [b]Conclusion[/b] In summary, this game is competing against a lot of competitors in a very bloated genre. When I am looking to play a game in this style, I am probably going to reach for some other titles and while this game is good, its competitors are more enjoyable uses of my time right now. In a dry season I can see myself coming back to this one because where it is good, it is very good.

很有潜力的肉鸽走格子游戏。构筑数据池与系统池，然后用这些池子构筑地图。通过数据池的强力格子收集数据，打倒核心；通过系统池的各种加持逃脱追踪，加速启动。至少我是第一次玩这种游戏，感觉很新颖。 UI与格子的绘制简明易懂，玩下来很少有看描述的情况。 计算机与网络的元素很多，还有一些梗，让人很有感觉。例如意面式代码、土豆服务器。2个数据库可以合成云数据库，可以远程激活；开源代码在关卡开始时就显示；反相器会反转格子的激活状态······ Bug反馈： 1.数据格“回电”未升级版描述有误，应为获得3数据。