A strategy roguelike with little replayability due to it being too strategically shallow. But it also has a dazzling AD, and fun enough mechanics that it can keep entertaining you until you can no longer overlook its limitations. Took me 20 hours, the rest was me trying to close up on the achievements before it stopped being fun altogether.
On the plus side, the game has a super groovy soundtrack, and a rich, lovely AD with lots of humor. From wallet-losing tourists to actual sharks wearing suits and playing the stock market, the game finds lots of light-hearted ways to explore the business world, and is worth every penny for the laughs alone.
And, while I usually couldn't care less about it, the amazing voice acting is a lot of added value. Nothing like several workaholic brokers going "sleeping is overrated!" in quick succession.
Now on the negative side, the game consists in a series of 2-player card game encounters, but the card game itself isn't very interactive, and lacks polishing. Notably, no matter how conservative players are, they'll eventually run out of cards in their hands, and the advantage you can get from vomiting your hand early on is way too easy to mitigate. Once you realize that, you'll start picking only high-impact cards and remove the cheap ones every chance you get, and as a result, deckbuilding isn't very stimulating. (If henchmen could target workers, aggro strategies would probably be a lot more relevant)
Apart from that, the game puts a lot of emphasis on the debt mechanic, which turns out to be mostly anecdotical. Winning with it is near unfeasable (resulting in certain cards feeling like they exist just to be played against you), and losing due to it is also unlikely, due to that one event that shows up every 2 or 3 matches and lets you remove a massive amount of it.
It could be an issue - and therefore add some depth to the game - if you weren't always guaranteed to have enough cash to afford it. But you do. In fact, you make so much money in this game, that you barely ever have to make a choice at all, and can usually afford to buy items you don't want just for the luxury of removing them from the pool.
Lastly, there's few different events, and they're mostly... uneventful. Fun writing, though.
All in all, the gameplay's not too bad, but lacks refinement. However, it's enough for a really fun couple dozen hours.
