Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors

It's interesting. Having played the original just absolute stand out masterclass of a game I had to give this a go especially being an A10 player on slay the spire 2 and so on. The game is good. I got it for steam deck which it is ideal for. The base mechanic is simple and easy to get started on and the combo system again is simple but does allow for some planning strategy deck building and all those wonderful things. But I started unlocking characters. Did a run with one of the newer guys I unlocked and was getting beaten up hard so I went back and swapped to the third guy you unlock and started sweeping a bit then unlocked someone called Pugnala Provola and just tried her out and wow. She actually just broke the game in half. She has a really simple combo from her base deck that does loads and you just buy yellow 0 cost and 1 cost draw enhancing cards and if you can get an x3 on her 3 cost gun you just clean up absolutely everything. I felt like I cracked the game open and after maybe 3-4 hours of playing it I was doing well but I was a bit like ok it's sort of the same thing now. I sort of feel like I either play this deck type or I am just not playing optimally. What I like with STS2 is that there is no one broken archetype. You can snowball off of so many different things. Poison deck. Shiv deck. Vuln scaling. Dark orb building. Frost orb. Arsenal crash landing, Osty build, block and doom scaling, Tank build. Like your first few cards and your first key card dictates the direction of the run.I feel like I'm starting every run and I just know what I'm trying to do from the very first encounter every time and I just do exactly that every dungeon. It's also REALLY frustrating to have all the upgrade pieces you need for an EVO and after like 4 floors you haven't been offered the upgrade even 8 re rolls in so you're just like cool the game REALLY does just want me to keep spamming this nonsense doesn't it? I wish there were more interesting broken things you could build into and that the game rewarded more exploration but it doesn't quite seem to if that makes sense? Like for the experience, for the price, the games good. It's a yes for if I recommend it. It's fun. I will keep playing it, but it's not quite as open as other deck builders so far.