Once Upon a Galaxy

I play this on mobile a lot so my hours aren't huge on here right now. The people who leave negative reviews about the balance and monetization are insane. this game is SO good and i've gone out of my way to pick the early captains and still place top 3 consistently with them. The loud minority who complain are just weird entitled people who feel like they ought to have every single card in the game just given to them. [b]Pros:[/b] •Very unique drafting card battler with async multiplayer, you've probably never played something quite like this •It's free to play •Hundreds and hundreds of hours worth of content. Expect to see new captains and new cards 50 hours in as of Aug 2026 •Addictive gameplay loop where you're almost entirely focused purly on the drafting and deckbuilding aspect •It's a game by a small group of guys who seem to love what they do so there's no investors or whatever calling shots and making the game lame •The game is balanced in a way so that you can consistently win with any captain. I've found this to be true regardless of what some loud complainers may say [b]Neutral:[/b] •Card art may be very appealing to you, as it is with me, or very unappealing. I've had friends comment that they hate the way this game looks. •You may either absolutely love the huge variety of cards and captains the devs give you or if you suffer huge from the Fear Of Missing Out mindset it could drive you crazy cause you're probably not going to collect everything [b]Cons:[/b] •There's only 2 songs. they're fine songs but the game either needs more neutral background music that you can hear for hours and hours on end or just more songs •Performance is worse than you would expect for a card game made up of what appear to be 2d assets •There are microtransactions, I feel they are completely reasonable microtransactions and I know they have to monetize a game like this that is a live service in a way that creates a steady cashflow rather than just game sales up front. However i'm old school and so I do still count microtransactions as a negative. I hope some day somebody figures out a good alternative to free to play with micro transactions for games like this.

I don't understand the hate. A free to play game that you can pick up and play a few games. I find the matches fast and fun.

To highroll for my taste, it was good at the start but they kept adding more pay to win and more high roll captains that makes it not fun anymore.

Game has gotten buggy in the last week or two, causing major lag on my whole system.

Typical asymetrical ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, opponents will be several turns ahead of you, have units with impossible stats out of nowhere and the "rng" will play out exactly how it needs to to screw you over no matter how specific that has to be it happens and not randomly, on the regular, its disgusting and don't get me started about the complete lack of game balance and sheer amount of cards that should never have been released the way they are and never get nerfed.

Juat a good game, also a great community

I love the themes but don't like that it's a card game, we call these "menu games" where i'm from Starting a new review theme called "Is It A Menu Game?" and yes, this one is a menu game