
Roll up and play a deck building game like no other! Gather weird and wonderful performers, amaze audiences, explore Gilded Age America, and transform your run down circus into an entertainment empire. Play your cards right and you could claim the crown of greatest showman from P.T .Barnum!
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Your worst fear is the audience’s indifference. Your best weapon is a dazzling amusement. Your artists are your army. Behold, the circus came to town!
Roll up! Roll up! Come and take charge of your very own run-down circus and navigate a uniquely American form of entertainment, full of bizarre folklore, brutal crime, and social inequality as you battle to establish yourself amongst industry giants Ringling Bros., P.T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill:
Build your troupe, manage your circus camp, explore Gilded Age America, and amaze your audience to become the tycoon of an entertainment empire the likes of which the world has never seen!
Dive into a story set during the dying days of the Wild West where history mingles with magical realism and ethnic folklore. Listen to an atmospheric soundtrack inspired by classic circus music and American country & folk as you travel to 90 cities and towns across 4 vast regions of the continental US. Encounter mythical creatures from such as the Wendigo and Bigfoot alongside historical figures including Susan B. Anthony, Nikola Tesla, and Queen Victoria. Play your cards right and you might be able seize the crown of greatest showman from P.T. Barnum himself!
Deliver a perfect show in a special card duel between you and the audience. Beat their boredom with an arsenal of performances and tricks presented on over 200 beautifully hand-illustrated cards. Strategize carefully and gauge the mood of the crowd before playing your hand; what provokes cheers in the deep South might provoke jeers in the industrialised North!
As the budding tycoon of a travelling circus your success depends on the variety of weird and wonderful acts you can get into the ring and the range of spectacular feats they can perform! With over 15 unique performers to recruit, and 32 audience types from across gilded age America to amaze, you’ve got your work cut out as you try to create the greatest show on earth!
As a showman you will have to travel light and fast, managing your resources and building the camp that supports your show as it grows, enabling you to drop jaws from coast to coast. With 8 different circus wagons, 18 unique upgrades available between them and over 100 modifications for the circus caravan as a whole, there’s a range of options to keep the show on the rails as diverse and varied as the performers in it!
What The Amazing American Circus has to offer?:
Become a legend! Save a run-down circus, gather a troupe of performers, and dare to defy the greatest showmen on earth - P.T Barnum, Buffalo Bill, and more!
Recruit and train over 15 different types of circus artists
Take part in exciting battles on the circus arena using the beautifully illustrated collectible cards
Upgrade your circus caravan thanks to different types of wagons offering over 100 possible modifications
Meet both historical and fictional characters deeply embedded in American folklore, such as John D. Rockefeller, Susan B. Anthony, or Nikola Tesla
Immerse yourself in a story taking place during the turbulent era of the fading Wild West and enter the beautiful and dark world of Native American folklore and the immigrant populace
Listen to a unique soundtrack inspired by classic circus music and American country & folk
The Amazing American Circus in numbers:
200+ hand-illustrated cards
Recruit and train over 15 different types of circus artists, among them mimes, strongmen, and acrobats
8 different circus wagons to upgrade (18 unique upgrades altogether)
32 different types of audience, whom you have to attract and entertain
Over 100 modifications and upgrade options for your circus caravan
90 cities and towns to visit
21 story-related side quests
10 Grand Finale finisher actions
16 Misfits to collect in Bizarre Baazaar wagon
4 distinct geographical regions - travel across the American continent
4 powerful opponents to defeat (one per region) - the legendary P.T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill, Queen Victoria, and more...
1 but epic adventure akin to Baz Luhrman’s musicals, Ennio Morricone’s westerns, and the classic road movies
60 minutes of a soundtrack inspired by country and folk music from different parts of the USA
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Languages: English*, French, German, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Russian*languages with full audio support
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Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
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A dublagem é muito ruim é uma mecânica rebuscada demais de jogo de cartas que só é jogada do nada pro jogador se virar...
Потраченных денег и времени - жаль. Пятикратно переваренный кал!
good game
Robing priests and adopting fire demons... This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments – and you get the tears at the end, too. And debts. Also the drunk uncle that pukes all over your stuff. At least you get to keep the tips.
还没玩,先完成任务
For all intents and purposes this is a combat game. All battles are reskinned as performances, and performers are fighters. This leads to a dissonance. All terminology is from circus, gameplay is definitely not. Even if you are not bothered by this, even familiar concepts such as hit points, damage, block etc. are called something entirely different and it takes some time before you translate and re-learn everything. This is by no means a dealbreaker for me, but feels off, and you will need to like both the circus like reskin theme, combat games and be fine with the odd combination to enjoy this game. Still, it's not the reason why I wouldn't recommend it. I got plenty of random crashes lately, so the game is definitely not created, optimized or even updated for win 11. Since crashes are random, you can just reboot the computer and try again. Annoying, but I haven't seed any blocker. And yet, it's not the main reason why I wouldn't recommend it. Instead, I'm thrown off by the death of a thousand annoying random punishments. You perform and every single of your performers can get a random negative trait for no reason at all. Sure, you can remove it, but it costs money. You can also decrease the chance of getting negative traits... But it also costs a lot of money... That you just spent to remove the traits in the first place. If you don't do that, your good traits will be replaced by the really bad ones. Also, if you perform, you get bad cards that litters your deck. No reason other than that developers thought it would be funny to give you a random pushment. If you are lucky, you will get good cards instead. Except that even good cards are pretty bad, and still litters your deck. So in this game even the rewards are punishments. And even if you are lucky, missing the most terrible random punishments, you will sooner or later fall for terrible random events that you get between cities. Events that will give you more random, unavoidable, permanent punishments. And because of the autosave at very specific places, it happed more than once that I got lucky with RNG, closed the game, and had to redo everything, but the good RNG was replaced by terrible one. It's just not worth it.
Niezła karcianka, na początku może wydawać się trochę zawiła ale wystarczy dać jej chwilę. Niestety wydaję się trochę za długa jak na to co oferuje i odechciewa się grać odznaczając co i rusz miasta na mapie robiąc to samo, ale taki styl rozgrywki może się podobać.
很难说,玩一把实在玩不下去了,翻翻评论好像没什么人说翻译的问题。 感觉就是最简陋的机翻,卡牌里面有一大堆莫名其妙的词条,翻开游戏内百科的详细描述也是一塌糊涂,甚至有些被翻译成完全相反的单词。比如说苦行僧,其中一张卡牌效果写着是攻击,但实际只能瞄准自己叠盾。比如说小丑,有一张牌效果是把弃牌堆的牌移动到抽牌堆,但是使用之后什么效果都没有,一张2费的无用牌。 另外,关于卡牌的使用目标,游戏中的卡牌默认是选择一个单体目标生效,对全体目标生效的卡牌会写上“全体”词条,但是有些卡牌使用时只能选中卡牌来源的那个角色,而这种特殊效果居然没有一个词条标注。 可能往后还有更多的问题。但是我实在玩不下去了。
Hello fellow gamers, now I 100%ed this game. And this was a chore. The beginning is fun, the combinations are many and fair and you can win with pretty much any team... The game itself is very easy and forgiving - not even having harder difficulty levels than standard. So I had some fun playing the game, why the thumbs down? Since there are absolutely no quality of life options (like saving the favorite artists finals and so on), there are a ton of bugs - some really bad!!! - and the game keeps crashing about every hour, which is super annoying - especially mid a long fight. If you got the game for very cheap or just wanna play another tactical card game, give this game a shot, if not, there are better games out there. Even if the idea behind the game is pretty interesting and as stated it can be fun. Dialogs and music are totally meh. Probably they just don't hit my sweet spot. Even muted the game and played it listening to my favorite music :D. Getting 100% is a small grind and the game becomes pretty repetitive FAST. Cheers :-)
I had no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clue what was happening
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