Shuffle Tactics

I was concerned about the mixed review status, but am happy to say this is a fun game and the devs have addressed many of the concerns people previously noted in their negative reviews.

Its undercooked, gameplay and stability wise. The only upgradeable card i found on doberknight was the sword throw, theres no chart on interactions with terrain types, charms work on clicked tile basis. These and more feel like rough edges that would be fine if not for countless bugs. Sometimes game just doesnt do what the card says and sits there with a plank nailed to its forehead and SOMETIMES it does things witchout any reason! I had to sac my Fletch run cus on the final boss i had to restart the fight 3 times for 3 seperate reasons ranging from my turrets and sidekick dissapearing without trace, failing to place 1 turret and card getting glued to ui instead of playing it. The funnier bug i got was with the pyromancer, their oil cards and unstable explosions. Whatever i did it just crashed the game outright. It was fun at first, but i dont want 1 hour runs to be artificially stretched by semi-infinite loops of effects, sticky ui and other bugs. For now, bleh, i hope after patches it will be more manageable.

Did not care for the aesthetic at all, but that's personal taste. The game has some UI issues that need to be addressed: - If you want to know things like enemy ranges or how much damage they do, you need to click on each of them one at a time. - Getting to an upgrade shop for the first time? Choose a card to upgrade. What do the upgrades do? No way of knowing. Pick a card. - When you hover over a card to learn what it does, it might say something like "Gives you the recall card". What is the recall card? I need this information and information about potential upgrades to evaluate cards. - Click 4 times to mash open the lootbox. Click a 5th time by mistake and select the center option instantly if there was a choice.

虽然游戏玩法和美术很戳我，但是BUG太多了，设计不合理，非常不平衡！而且游戏内部BUG反馈正文里用中文都会显示成框框。那我就在这里反馈了，后续版本如果有修改，会改好评。 1，投掷弹射属性的技能会出现无效。包括狼的初版卡组投剑，贵族弓手的火与冰弹射，以及药师的投掷瓶子。我在最终关测试，无论有没有挡住，从高射低等都无效，狼投掷后掉落的剑也没了，投掷卡都变成了只消耗点数没有伤害的废卡。 2，狼的第二套腐化火焰卡组每回合必出的火焰卡应该有BUG，只要装上那个“发动技能后和目标互换”的饰品，这张0费的卡只要不打死敌人，就可以无限用。狼就能用这张0费的火焰叠加被动烧10+血，只要不烧死1血的小怪，这样操作满场瞬移把所有敌人都刷到一丝血，然后一回合收割打过关。包括最终关的BOSS，同样可以用这招1回合打空血。我觉得已经不是轮椅玩法，应该是BUG。 3，不知道是不是游戏特性还是程序没做好？这里的所有范围技能无论增益还是减益技能都会对敌人起效，若是丢瓶子或爆炸有友伤，我觉得没什么。但幽灵弓手5范围的鼓舞增益，狼加护盾的鼓舞等，我觉得正常脑回路的人，都不会觉得自己的英雄鼓舞敌人对吧？也太奇怪了。 4，挂饰能挂在卡牌上加被动我觉得很有趣，可能组出好玩的新玩法。但，某些对敌用的减益如果手滑放在“对自己生效”的技能里，比如中毒放在鼓舞里面，就会无差别让自己和所有人都中毒（无论游戏体验还是设计上都太诡异了，大叫一声让所有人中毒吗？）甚至燃烧电击中毒等，放在冲刺攻击里居然会对自己起效，也是无法理解。（我以为中毒会叠加在冲刺过程中的火焰里造成增伤，但对自己施加中毒是什么鬼？） 5，助手强度平衡不太好，有些助手简直弱中之弱。比如药师，投掷瓶子伤害低，距离短范围却超大还会被阻挡，经常丢到敌人身上自己吃减益。比如教授，它叠辉光才加1点攻击力，等他叠出战斗力，其他角色都打完了。而我觉得最强的贵族弓手一个被动爆炸箭就+5攻击力，还能3连射，3连射还能叠+5攻的挂饰或中毒燃烧等，还有0费瞬移，机动力飞起来。简直把其他远程爆得嘛都不认识。叠上火焰和辉光，最终BOSS一张三连就射掉70+的血，除了最终BOSS，其余BOSS一回合就被他射死了。 6，不能旋转战场，怪物和角色扎堆时非常难点，还有友伤，大多数技能都能空挥，手一滑就打到队友或打到地板上。但离谱的是，火男助手某个撒3次油的技能却不能点地板？违反了玩家常识。 7，某个会瞬移，有毒反伤的黑狗敌人过强，机制不合理。遇到之前没有提示，遇到就是一群。战斗提示说“可以远程打击不会中毒”但实际远程打还是会中毒！（所以我认为是BUG）测试包括投掷、投射射击，魔法，都会中毒，而且中毒叠加。只有腐化火焰，死灵术士的僵尸等打地板或间接的伤害才不会中毒，但这只狗会瞬移，根本无法围住，也不怎么吃地板伤害。如果不改，除非已经玩过好几周目，知道要带净化或专职解除减益的助手，不然遇到就完全无法打过，变成死档了。无准备的玩家遇到就要重开，非常不友好。有黑狗的关卡难度忽然涨到天上，对于玩家来说不是好设计。 8，许多卡是废卡，比如流血回收投掷剑。居然要2费，同2费的十字火焰，还有一些助手的2费卡伤害比这招高太多了。而且投掷剑系列还有之前挂减益饰品收回来对自己施加伤害的离谱设计，挂任何中毒燃烧之类都会对自己更不利，手滑挂错了就要重开。还有加速移动卡，要逃跑时比冲刺好用得多，有了就不会再用冲刺和跳跃（除非开发出什么联动）非常多卡都会因为减益会对自己起效而变成无法使用的状态。 以上，希望制作组能看到，并考虑修改，不然有些BUG非常致命，对玩家极度不友好。

Huge potential but too buggy to recommend at the moment. Although if you love turn based tactical roguelikes you might enjoy it enough anyway. Bugs encountered so far: 1. Hotkeys aren't disabled while sending feedback. 2. Recallable sword throw doesn't correctly swap to recall sword in some cases. 3. Hidden takedown doesn't gain bonus damage when there's highground between you and your target. 4. Some effects (such as poison and I think knockback) are applied even if your projectile is blocked by an obstacle. 5. Card got stuck as selected after use, softlocking the fight (can restart fights by going to the main menu). 6. Recall sword isn't damaging the boss that it's clearly passing through. 7. Whirlwind is displaying the wrong damage. Design choices I dislike: 1. Pathfinding doesn't take you around traps. 2. When npcs often have an option to buy another item from them they have a chance to give you nothing. 3. No way to speed up enemy turns. Things I love: 1. Reward variety from fights and in shops/events. 2. Combat feels strategic and satisfying. 3. Relics enable unique build options. 4. Sidekicks feel impactful and have their own unique playstyles. 5. Music (although it's a little repetitive).

Review as of 6 hours - if you're reading this and like slay the spire or tactics style games (think FF tactics or The Last Spell etc...) Stop reading this review and go buy this game immediately. Developer is really responsive, constantly updating and tweakign the game- game was unfairly review bombed early on. Of the latest indie purchases this has been my favorite. Great graphics, fun replayability, and lots to discover and unlock. Give it a shot!

Rough gem, but sadly unfinished & abondoned.

I searched for a long time for a turn-based strategy roguelike that would keep me hooked and challenged for longer than a month, and this is the one that got me!! I pretty much love everything about this game thus far except the difficulty seeing and clicking certain tiles when higher terrain/other characters/totems, etc. are blocking them from view, and how unnerving it can get when trying to play with a gamepad or the Steam Deck without a mouse. If the devs could add a way to rotate the battlefield or maybe have a way to toggle a bird's eye view it would solve a lot of frustrations. And there has got to be a better way to do controller input!! This has been one of my most satisfying purchases, and I'm looking forward to seeing even more content added to this perfect title!!

Overall a very fun game, but I wish steam had a neutral option. Tried the demo and had a blast, liked it so much I got it! Although, after playing it, it just isn't for me, and refunded it. It's a very good game, it just doesn't scratch that slay the spire, Wildfrost, or Deulyst 2 itch for me. No matter what though, try the demo! Pros: -Looks great! The pixel art is superb, and the stages look great. -Tons of strategy, you can upgrade card, find new ones, get charms -similar to Wildfrost- to equip to cards -Has a cool twist! You can find companions on your runs which are additional decks and Characters to pilot and customize. -Combat feels fun slicing through people. -They blended the best of the deck building and tactics genres into a great package. -They really nailed the good decisions that come up in positioning and playing cards from up to three characters hands. -No bugs! Okay's: -It's manageable on steam deck. It is just a little bit slow and janky to handle over a mouse, but otherwise it works fine. -Enemy interaction isn't to high. Most enemies don't make you think differently in approaching them, other than go close to hit, back away if charging up a telegraphed attack. Some enemies farther along do place traps for positioning, but other than that it isn't to much. -Shop UI feels a little cramped. Cons: -Combats feel slow. Maybe it's average for tactic games, but enemies seem to have either a bunch of health, or die in one hit. Even after beating a boss and having an upgraded deck, it still took around 5 normal attacks (on multiple turns) to beat an average enemy. -Tooltips and keywords aren't clear. Maybe this was just on steam deck, but they seemed very vague. -You can't see how an effect of applied charms, or upgrading a card would lead to. -Boss's seem poorly designed. The first boss I encountered was a night that had crazy amounts of shields, and could parry. "Parry what though?" I do not know. I took a lot of damage figuring out the hard way of if he could parry ranged attacks, or just melee, or how long it lasted. After I beat him, I made my way to a jungle boss. The jungle boss had three of them! It was three really high health spiders (With probably more health than the boss one knight). Once you beat them, they spawn the spider yet again with it's rider now also attacking you on foot. A double phase boss, that has a positive net health gain, and three of them! It's also bad that I was only able to deal around 1/10th of their hp on hit, while they damaged 1/5th of mine (per spider), so my poor healer wasn't able to keep up. Conclusion and TLDR: Overall, it's a very fun and polished game, it just isn't amazing. (Try out the demo though!)

Absolutely loving the game. If you like deckbuilding and/or tactics games, just play it. There's a free demo, try it now. I see some comments about game stability or bugs, perhaps they've already patched it, but played multiple runs already and haven't encountered a single problem with the game so far.