Once Upon a Galaxy

At first I really liked this game. However, the more you play, the more you realize it's largely RNG. You face opponents from some random pool of previous players. Those players were almost always on insanely high roll runs. You will never face an opponent that's having a bad run (in my experience). From there it's a coin flip if you can even compete, let alone win. Now, I'm not saying "it's too hard", "it's not fair", or any other crybaby thing that people will want to put on me. There's just too many things that are completely up to RNG. 1. You get to pick from 2-3 random heroes (not always 3, if you haven't bought the third one). When you play a hero enough and win enough of their cards, you will get a silver portrait, instead of the bronze that you start with. I have never once seen a silver hero available to me during the monthly "tournament". 2. Opponents are picked through some sort of act of God. You just get what the code gives you, and that is never from someone that didn't have a great run. I understand that it sounds like whining about hard opponents, but it's not. It's become like The Bazaar, where the game never picks anyone other than the best. This means that if you start off slow, you're done. You have no chance to recover, because all your foes have high-rolled from turn one. 3. All too often you will have a hero with a card type specific skill. Be it character type, skill type, gold cards, or treasures (etc.), you will often times never see the cards you need. If your hero needs minions with "hunt", you may never see any, completely negating your hero. Again, if this was an uncommon occurrence, then bad luck could be the culprit. At the rate it happens though, it has to be more than that. Keep in mind, this will never happen to anyone you're facing. Unfortunately this game is all or nothing. If you aren't on par for a power build by turn two, you might as well start over. Just my $0.02 on it. I'm not trying to hate the game, but I also cannot recommend it. If you like RNG with choices, go for it.

180 hours of trying to convince myself things will get better. The system is currently set up to tie your hands and rely on pure luck in order to win. Your deck consist of 12 cards and they force you to fish for those 12 cards amongst 126 community cards. If you get what you need you can have a good game. if you get part of what you need you will probably get a top 3. The issue is that you only get what you need maybe 10% of the time. This might not sound THAT bad until you realize their system for your opponents. snapshots of other people who had good games. occasionally you might get an early win here and there, but if you don't, you can bet your sweet tooshy that your opponent after turn 12 will most likely have their perfect hand with all the cards and treasures they could ever want. Then there's the MMR system. Anyone can climb it slowly but surely. in my 2 months i climbed to 2300, but i also played a LOT. the issue is, you get fewer points for a win than you lose for finishing 5th or 6th. " so just don't be bad" right? Well remember the whole needing at least some of your cards to get that top 3? a lot of the times not only do you get nothing you need, your opponents still do get everything they need. it will give you nothing but 1/1-1/3 cards for 5 shops in a row and you are helpless and get forced out on turn 4 or 5 with absolutely nothing you could have done differently to change the outcome. I record everything with medal. i have spent an unhealthy amount of time watching the games thinking it was me messing up. Once you get past the learning curve of knowing situational things to do, the metas everyone plays, and reading enough tips from others, you are just stuck in a loop of winning 30%, getting top 3 30% and getting force lossed 30%, so your MMR creeps up slowly. an illusion to think you are getting better, but at the end of the day you are just helpless to the system. even if you get the perfect draws and make the right plays. you will still lose to some gimmick that only works with tiny chance combination of treasures and abilities. all the treasures are RNG, you can do 3 quests and get nothing but lucky chests, skeleton keys, and villain/hero specific treasures you cant even use. all the spells are RNG. you can go multiple games without ever seeing a shrink tea, midnight, or even a true loves kiss. you can play a villain captain and get nothing but fae. you can play a candy captain and go 20 shops without seeing a candy spell. the whole thing is a giant bundle of chaos, and until there is more consistency and ability to actually play the game mechanically instead of relying on chance, I can't recommend it.

I tries to make you sign in with a google account which I would never want to be connected to my Steam account in any way. When you go to use the button to make an account with your Steam account, it says you don't have one. Of course I don't. That is why I am hitting the button to make one there. Why have one to make an account and a button to log in if they both require you to already have an account.

Been playing for months on mobile, but the recent monetization is a terrible change and I cannot recommend it within the mobile game landscape, certainly not as a PC game. Monthly battle passes to unlock cards early is a pretty expected "not quite a subscription" to games like this, and I'm happy to put some money in for a game I play daily. Add to that paid cosmetics and you've got standard, if still expensive, monetization. They started adding more captains during the month and new 'sets' of captains - both with extra monetization. But generally still unlockable over time and there's enough variety to miss a few. The new change adds one time purchases of $20 rerolls to help you pick a new captain. $20 would be expensive as a single purchase just to have a slightly better deck selection, but its $20 per 'set' - meaning it's $60 today and will continue to increase in price as more sets are added. This is just paywalling a fix to an issue the game is creating, rather than improving the game itself. Such a turnoff for what is fundamentally a good but light game.

The problem with this game is that the card pool grows far faster than a free-to-play player can unlock cards. This is because you have to unlock each card for each captain. It felt manageable when the game first came out, if a bit grindy. But, with the number of unlocks (cards for each captain) growing multiplicatively like this, it has become completely unenjoyable without spending a ton of cash.

RNG garbage. Sincerely just click and watch then pray you get something. Yeah there are synergies, but you won't know until you've had your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reamed out a few dozen times. This game is total ass.

The ai controlling the moves and opponents boards is literally completely random. There is no rhyme or reason to it, and often I find myself getting screwed over because the way my things move is completely insane. Zero effort was made to make it cohesive, it's piss poor, I would strongly recommend against running this until they either make it to where you can make decisions in real time (as you are not actually facing opponents in real time) or make the ai have a modicum of sense. Completely piss poor development.

They introduced a bunch of actual pay to win crap today, steer clear of this game if you value your time.