Z. Year One
Short version:
Besides the initial (at times very frustrating) hour or so, I have found this game extremely fun to play. It’s a decent challenge, looks incredible and the developers are very responsive and diligent at tackling bugs. It is a gem of a game that has production values and mechanics on par with the elite digital card games out there, but which will cost you a fraction of the price to remain forever competitive.
Pros:
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Looks great!
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Unique location mechanics, card abilities and strategies versus other digital card games.
– Real player with 23.4 hrs in game
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Great card game, lots of promise for the future. Good concept, good photo artwork, fun to play even when you lose. Still a bit of work to do, could benefit from a lot more locations and location specific event cards but looking forward to seeing how it turns out when it’s finished.
Will kill Zombies and get disapproving looks from partner for having an all female deck again…..
(Addition) After a few more updates since first posting this review you can tell how committed the team are to producing a decent game. Hats off to them for all the hard work. The decision to put a pricetag on the game and giving booster packs to unlock cards through gameplay is a much better idea than a f2p version, the game is worth it.
– Real player with 18.9 hrs in game
Chaincards
Chaincards is a JRPG where you play as Chain, a young wizard whose goal is to find out his master’s magic notes to reveal the secrets behind his mysterious death. Search powerful spells exploring dungeons. Learn how to control them and unleash the power of magic cards to fight demons and evil magicians. Unveil the truth.
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Wildemist Isle
Wildemist lsle is a 3D adventure game with card based battles. You are a hero who’s ship has crashed while sailing to the capital. You wake up on this Island that has been covered in a mist for months, but the villagers do not know whats causing it. Due to the protruding stones in the sea and the razor sharp reef no ships can leave nor enter. So for you to get off this island you must discover what is causing the mist and stop it. So you explore the island doing quests for villagers, looking for treasure, solving puzzles and fighting monsters when outside the village. Fights are a card game, your deck of cards is based on your items you have equipped. You can get new items by buying them at the marketplace defeating unique enemies or by exploration. The damage you receive at the end of a fight stays with you unless you can heal before the next fight, so don’t stay out from the village too long or you might not make it back.
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Island and 2 areas to explore the Mine and Catacombs
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15 different enemies and 6 unique ‘boss’ enemies
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16 different main weapons, secondary weapons, shields and healing kits
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3 unique Puzzles
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Villager given quests
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病毒恶化 VirusCrisis
Interesting game. Interesting content. Looking forward to future development.
– Real player with 42.9 hrs in game
病毒恶化 VirusCrisis is a unique mix between roguelite cardbattle RPG, survival and classic visual novel games. Let’s get a closer look.
The Story
病毒恶化 VirusCrisis doesn’t really have a complex backstory, it’s more on a simple side.
An unknown virus outbreak happened in your city, turning all infected people into hideous creatures.
A small group of people barricaded in a school building, trying to gather survivors and supplies.
Your name is Huang Zili, a good person at heart, but a lazy one in reality. Along with your teacher Wang, you will get 3 random characters, that you can reroll before you start.
– Real player with 9.9 hrs in game
Library Of Ruina
This game taught me that if something an enemy uses seems cheesy, simply use it as well and turn the dial to 11. Exploit or die. Use Gebura and Myo’s effect and leave all your worries behind, until Xiao ends you. Coming off of Lobotomy Corp made me predestined to love this game.
10/10, makes me feel like my IQ is room temperature, in Celsius
– Real player with 176.7 hrs in game
THE BOTTOM LINE
Library of Ruina is a bookstore the size of a city block–you’ll get lost in it for hours at a time, exploring a bottomless well of new and interesting stories to experience and share.
Review as follows:
I spent 160 hours with this game, but it’s lived rent-free in my head for so much longer. The world and story are evocative, unique, and at times disturbing. But the gameplay is just as unique, you’d be surprised how much changes when you strip the “roguelike” from “roguelike deckbuilder”. There’s depths to this game, and thanks to being singleplayer, it’s an ocean of archetypes and strategies that don’t centralize around a defined “meta” you might find in something like YuGiOh or Hearthstone. It’s all the joy of first discovering Magic the Gathering with friends, except in this case you don’t even need friends!
– Real player with 160.0 hrs in game