Relic Arena

Two points really. First, there is some irony that this references other auto chess games in the trailer, as this game makes heinous design choices those games went through and course corrected on pretty hard. Secondly, the Relic seems to promise a more simple, streamlined version of auto chess which I have no opinion on one way or the other. But my point is, that it makes something more obtuse and difficult to grasp. Any other game has racial tags you play around and even if you don't know what you're doing, you can basically just build in a straight line so to speak. You can learn one or two types of builds and be fine. Here you have 100 unique items that interact with perhaps a quarter of the rest in meaningful ways, so good luck getting all that figured out. Even some innovations I would commend are screwed up. There's an automated ban list every match with 25 items being thrown out. I'm all for that. But that's also true for the leaders. Pair that with the leaders being locked behind hard farming or money, and all the sudden you're pigeon holed in your first 100 hours/ $100 to frequently play leaders you don't want to. On top of that, there's this veneer of cheapness. I can even tell effort went in at certain places, but it doesn't look or feel nice to play. Obviously it's free and you can try a couple games and see, but I would be shocked if this was still running in four months.