Zoominoes

Top notch, has a few small bugs but it is a small team with a very recent release date. Still fantastic if you like games about "number go up".

Fun, great visuals

I am completely obsessed with this game. The starter characters are a little boring, but there's a LOT more to unlock that are much more interesting, and thankfully the core gameplay is already good. Fun, challenging, full of surprises and excitement. 10/10, one of the best games I've played this year. I expect to be putting a lot more time into it.

I like it so far, I keep wanting to do new runs when I inevitably fail because I get greedy

more fun that in looked in the videos. worth a pickup. Its a neat little deck builder.

TL:DR; Take the simple but enjoyable game of dominoes, make the pieces 6 sided instead of 4, make it zoology themed and a bit of a Balatro-style number go up roguelike and you get Zoominoes! Let it never be said that consistent theming and a fun art direction cannot sell a game or make it more enjoyable. Its very much an example of "easy to learn, hard to master" kind of game, that really takes off when you find the character whose playstyle bonus and starting line-up gels best with the way you like to play. I'd prefer them all to be better balanced against each other, as the starting 3 are almost always a worse choice than every one you unlock after mathematically- but its not a big problem. As other critiques have said, the main flaw in the game mechanically is that the mythic creatures make the game too easy once you have them. They need to either be powered down significantly, or made much rarer. It is not overexaggeration to say that even on the highest difficulties, the right mythic creature entering your deck wins the game there and then and all you have left to do is play the turns out. A lot of the mythic creatures are much easier to play well with than the defaults, so you don't even have to try as hard. Overall I really liked it, I think if the mythic creature overpower and overabundance was fixed I'd personally enjoy this more than Balatro. The way the 6 sided and colour coded dominos work just clicks better in my brain than the Poker setup for me.