Racine

There's a lot to say about this game. A roguelite, auto-card battler with parrying. The game itself honestly is really fun, well, until you get tired of how slow and rng reliant the game is. The main problem to me at least, is how much it forces you to stall, and the RNG. Depending on the loadout the game pushes you into, fights end either too quick to really build up or are so slow that you hardly make any actual progress in each run. Essentially, the gameplay boils down to playing cards that either increase one of your 8 stats for the rest of the run bit by bit. That part I do like, however, you can hardly even choose what cards you get. Each run you start with 8 cards, 3 guaranteed heals and 5 completely random unlocked cards (that you've taken in a run). There's an upgrade which lets you reroll your starting deck, however it costs 10% of the in-run currency, which you start with 100% (the cap) and gain back from each fight at a rate of 1%-10%. So you either take a mid hand or roll away your currency in hopes of a good or even just a decent starting hand, which you could use for gaining more cards instead. Speaking of which, to gain more cards, you have to visit specific spots on the map, go through a fight and get to choose up to 3 random cards to *purchase*. The price is around 5%-25% usually and you can reroll the cards for 10%, 20% and then 40%. You can of course skip cards, but that harms your runs, every card above 10 cards gives you 5% energy regen, which you use to play and draw cards. What makes it even worse is that you cannot restart a run, well you can, but the only ways to do that are 1. Die, 2. Beat the boss or 3. On the map move to the beginning. Which, good luck if you decided to go for a tanky or reflect dmg build, cause the moment you get into an encounter with an enemy that doesn't attack (or doesn't do any significant damage) and is too tanky to kill with ur unupgraded 10 dmg auto attacks, you're basically ♥♥♥♥♥♥. There's so much potential and I feel like some smaller tweaks would make this game so much more bearable. A restart run button in menu, honestly just remove the reroll cost for the starter deck and the in-run card selection points and you could at least play around everything that needs bigger reworks, like non stat based cards (for example, status effect cards and the status related legendary cards), the tanky enemies and the timer that increases enemy levels over time. Could be so much more fun, though it doesn't seem like the devs are working on the game anymore. I really want to recommend this game, but it's just too unpolished for me to do so. Alr, unpolished rant over. Also, reflect damage doesn't activate if your temporary shield absorbs the enemy hit on parry.