Underboard

Game work on I3 4 series 1.7GHz with 2 cores. After 27 hours in game i beat 4 zone. I waste lots of time to check some stuff and literaly try to get some challenge on zone 1 of the still i want to spend more time in game to check some other combos, traits and characters as carry ones. Game might be hard as someone other review, but i maybe they forogot it's roguelike game and in some runs even if i feal that i lose change postion of charaters might change whole fight. I wish there was more characters to play after 27 hours i got 100% of collected characters and items plus 90% of spells so might be fun to see some new one.

GOTY

This game is fire. I play a ton of roguelikes/lites and this one has kept me interested for 15 hours now. I foresee many more hours of fun especially since the dev has stated that they plan on future content/balancing updates.

Bought this game on a whim and I'm glad I did. This is essentially a roguelike tactics/auto-battler. You build up a team of characters, get spells, items, and traits. Each battle you layout your team dependent on the enemy setup and then start the fight. Your units fight automatically, but you can cast spells and also "command" some of them if you have the ability. The art style is great. A cartoony style, but with some pretty gnarly gore. There's also PIco from Newgrounds fame here, which is kind of what pulled me into begin with. My only small gripe with the game are that saves are only after you go through a portal AKA the start of each map. I feel there's no gameplay benefit to this, so hopefully this is something they can update in the future. Not a deal breaker by any means, just something to keep in mind. Overall, I can highly recommend this if you like tactics/auto-battler!

play this this is really really cool one of those "just one more playthrough" kinda games stop reading this and just get it!

Underboard has a lot of style, and a lot of charm, its just not a very fun game. I think the critical mistake is that it all-ins on the least interesting (and most problematic) part of autochess: the synergy system. Synergies are king in this game since they are the most available and powerful form of enhancement, and because units have no inherent synergy, and instead all of their synergies are rolled randomly in the draft screen, none of the (admittedly not all that inherently interesting to begin with) characters feel distinct; every character feels like an interchangeable and samey synergy holder for whatever primary unit you are trying to empower. This is compounded by what I eluded to at the end of that last point: the only strategy that is viable from what I can tell is to all-in on like 2-3 units (since you can only fully outfit/upgrade that many in a run), and have everyone else just be there for utility, meat shielding, and pumping synergies. I won three runs before dying, in part due to rng and the nature of roguelikes meaning sometimes you die, but also due to poor decisions made out of apathy. I was relieved when I died, and could close the game, and that says a lot about my experience. I don't think its unfixable. This review was written on 2/18, so if the dev comes back with a balance overhaul that fixes my concerns and the concerns of other reviewers i've seen with similar complaints, then definitely check it out. What is done well in Underboard is done really quite well, its just that that list doesn't currently include "the gameplay".

I want to love this game, I really do, everything about it should scream my style. It just doesn't hit the mark on anything it's trying to do, which would be great for an early access game, but it's just not that. The art style, dope. The mechanics on paper, dope. Just take TFT and make it a fun roguelite, sick should have happened years ago. It just lacks polish of any sort, it felt like the official release was the moment they finished the game and not when they finished polishing the game. I hope the developer knows a "rerelease" or a "huge 1.1" update can save this game. Don't be afraid to download shaders lmfao. I guess maybe it's just tough seeing all these Newgrounds affliated works without the standard met.