Union of Gnomes

A dull card game with major flaws and a very bad campaign mode. In the campaign missions you can't skip adding cards to your deck and you have to pay travel costs based on card value (which is irritating in its own right). You're forced to dilute your deck and then are penalized for doing so. The deck manager is horrible. There's no search option, storage doesn't put returned cards in order so they're all jumbled, the filters are so limited as to be useless, and you can't save decks. Some mission bosses have strengths that completely negate certain decks. If you encounter a poison immune boss, you'll have to trash your poison deck then build a different one then afterwards rebuild your poison deck, all while fighting the terrible deck building UI. Adding insult to injury, missions don't warn you what the boss's strength is so you might spend an hour getting to the end of a map just to find your deck can't damage the boss at all. The only thing that changes how your deck functions during a mission is "bling" that you can use to add bonuses to card slots. Unfortunately they only last 1 mission, they rarely drop, and you have to get lucky to draw a card into the bling slot that meets the bonus's often very limited criteria. The roguelite mode is significantly better - the deck editor is blissfully unnecessary, the movement penalty is handled differently, and blings are a little more impactful since you get more and the runs are longer. Unfortunately that just exposes how uninteresting the gameplay is - block, attack, buff, debuff, mana, health, it's all bog standard. Once you lock down a good build every battle feels the same which is a big problem given that runs last well over an hour. With numerous design flaws, lack of interesting mechanics, and heavy grind, there's no reason for anyone to consider this one.

Don't like it. Nothing new comparing to other games, but very slow progression. Getting new cards is not so exciting cause they're not better - just different. Level ups for hero taking too much time. So you need to grind a lot and spend a lot of tries getting some specific deck for specific level and also to get enough luck in the fight.

Низкая вариативность, куча болячек от других игр жанра, не тратьте свое время

[h2]Union of Gnomes[/h2] Ein hübsch gezeichneter Karten Deckbuilder mit viel Humor. Das Game macht vieles richtig und sorgt somit für Unterhaltung. Der Schwierigkeitsgrad ist dabei knackig. Was hingegen gar nicht geht ist der extreme Grindfaktor. Der Fortschritt gelingt viel zu langsam. Das killt den Spielspass enorm. Wirklich schade. :(

Очень прикольная и ламповая игра) Может кому-то сначала не понравится задумка с сосисками - но потерпите 2-3 часика и всю механику поймете) Тут уже много развернутых отзывов и я не буду писать то же самое) Главное, знайте: если вы любите пошаговые рогалики - вам однозначно понравится эта игра! Мало того, тут не одна игра, а ДВЕ игры!

Didn't click for me. The metagame progression is fine, but the runs themselves aren't too interesting. The UI isn't great, basic QOL is missing, and there are a couple of weird design choices. There are a bunch of different builds possible but these are mostly boilerplate.

Cute, funny bit of a challenge to it, different builds/classes/cards and variety in those very replay able . 37 hours into this, picked it up a lot cheaper on sale £12 isnt terrible for this game but im happier and more comfortable with the sale price i got it for. Ill probably replay this again at some point and looking forward to when i have the urge and time to! I'd recommend keeping this on your wishlist picking it up on sale!