We Slay Monsters
Very fun little game.
Even though the graphics and sounds are a bit generic, the game itself is fun to play, the “poker-esque” combat adds a nifty twist to the genre, sometimes making you consider what cards to use and what to save to build a good combo against a boss later on.
Right now, the game’s a bit bare, only offering two quest types, arena quests and dungeon quests. The dungeons are sometimes a bit tricky to get through on the first try due to the enemies in some rooms vastly exceeding your level and sometimes even opening doors to other, even deadlier rooms of enemies. Fortunately, the same quests can be repeated until you reboot the game, allowing you to retry failed quests.
– Real player with 332.6 hrs in game
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EDIT: 22/06/2017: Version 1 of the game has been released! Excellent game with a full campaign and a lot of good content. The dev is still extremely active and is still working on a lot of improvements.
I highly recommend this game.
Original review:
This is a very cool game and I highly recommend it. The dev responds to feedback very quickly and seems genuinely eager to get more. My feedback on the discussion board has been responded to quickly and a lot of my suggestions have been taken on board. It’s great to have a keen dev who responds very quickly to feedback and really seems interested!
– Real player with 111.2 hrs in game
Space Grunts 2
The idea is cool and works well. Once you get used to the deck, feels like " ok I can do this " ….then you die.
Start over do better, die, repeat. You realize that it’s not recommended to loot anything, but just things you think will do better. Sometimes you’ll hope the exit is just around the corner, then you die.
If you can get over the first 3-4 runs just to get familiar with the cards then you’ll like this game.
Hope there will be more content, I see a lot of potential here. For the actual price (early access) you get the right amount of stuff.
– Real player with 198.2 hrs in game
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Imagine playing Space Grunts but using cards to simulate the combat and this is what you get.
– Real player with 16.6 hrs in game
A Long Way Down
As it sits right now, A Long Way Down is an incomplete game that is hampered by bugs - but this is an Early Access title so I can forgive this. That said, I can’t say I was particularly all that interested in this game; nor was I particularly interested in the element of ‘farming’ that this game seems to encourage.
The gimmick of this card rogue-like is that you are given an incomplete dungeon layout - a lot of tiles will be floating in, well, Limbo, and you will ‘build’ your path through the dungeon with tiles you can set down. There are many event tiles that you can come across and interact with - as well as of course enemies to encounter.
– Real player with 16.7 hrs in game
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I completed the game and earned all achievements in the game. I believe, that I experienced all the content and so I can share my experiences about this game.
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
Banners of Ruin
I do not play deckbuilders if I can help. I’m not really down for the whole card system usually and I think Slay the Spire was the only exception. I’ve tried others in the past and none of them really stuck. This one was baller, I dig the art style and the card system isn’t overBEARing. I’m sure some folks that play this games primarily may find it easy but for a noob, it’s awesome. Even the music gets you pumped and it is very much like a choose your own adventure.
That being said, there’s not really a lot of content to the game and I kinda wish there was more to it. I didn’t even know I beat the game, I thought it was just the first part or something and then abruptly ended. Still, that didn’t keep me from coming back and playing it again and again.
– Real player with 40.0 hrs in game
TLDR: If you don’t have enough patience to read this review then you don’t have enough patience to play this game I assure you. That being said, it has a LOT of redeeming qualities and is worth a look for anyone who likes deck builders or games similar to Slay the Spire.
Let me start off by saying that I REALLY want to love this game and it is pretty good in spite of its faults. I was raised on CCGs and the advent of deck builders has given the genre a fresh and new take that I thoroughly enjoy and Slay the Spire, a game which I have played into the ground. (Ascension 20 on most characters) Ever since I have been looking for the next StS and there have been some decent offerings, but none have managed to capture my attention in quite the same way. Because of this when I saw this game come up on my store page and watched some gameplay I was immediately sold.
– Real player with 27.2 hrs in game
Blood Card 2: Dark Mist
I planned to give Red Mist two hours of stream time and ended up continuing on for five and a half. Then I clocked another ten hours off stream. If you still need to hear more, watch my gameplay footage or read on below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MYIZPQJEs8
You build your deck, and your cards are your life. Enemies will steal them from you as they damage you, and you’ll face three or four foes at once with more waiting in the wings. If you’re a casual player, you’ll love this like I did. If this isn’t your first rodeo, then you’ll find each character (deck archetype) has a few ways to create an infinite loop. But even the infinite loop isn’t a guarantee of victory: the real trick is understanding the effects enemies will have on you.
– Real player with 290.8 hrs in game
3.9/5 (B plus) : Good card battler with a unique mechanism (cards as life points) and interestingly different characters. Art is good enough. Weaknesses are mostly in the lack of advancement. The difficulty levels add no new fun or functionality, just increase the difficulty, which does increase the challenge with each successful replay, but almost nothing else.
A very good element of the game design is similar to Slay the Spire, having very different play styles, cards, and mechanisms for the different characters. Really appreciate how different they are and there are six.
– Real player with 195.1 hrs in game
Coin Crypt
First off, this is my wife’s favorite game, even though she has never played it, entirely because of the opening theme music.
I would recommend this game as a fun, though sometimes challenging rogue-like romp, bringing together the constant threat of permanent death with a light-hearted playfulness.
The game attempts to present itself without tutorial or much explanation, evoking the enigmatic feeling of many games in the NES era, and does so mostly successfully. (I did do some wiki-ing about the gods after a few days, as this was somewhat opaque to me). The basic strategy of the game unfolds into a fairly rich and varied system as you unlock new classes and learn how to synergize class talents with the other elements of the game. While some classes can be made into powerhouses quite easily, others seem destined for failure. Though at first I felt the obvious imbalances of the classes was a flaw in the design, I now feel like this helps lend the game its particular charm.
– Real player with 133.5 hrs in game
EDIT:
I got super tired of reading so many complaints of people saying that the game is too hard and confusing, so I wrote a guide for beginners. This should clear up any questions you might have about the game, and if you still don’t like it afterwards, then I guess it isn’t for you. This review is also specifically focused on the base game and does not include any info on the DLC expansion.
Also, this was Slay the Spire before Slay the Spire.
– Real player with 111.2 hrs in game
Demon’s Mirror
You’ve stumbled into a world filled with your worst nightmares. You’ve been here before, possibly thousands of times, and the journey ahead of you is going to take everything you have. Only you can bring balance to the chaos. Demon’s Mirror presents a fresh take on roguelike deck building by giving you an additional method to battle your opponents. Play powerful cards and create massive chains of tiles to sway the battle in your favor.
Use your deck of cards to battle foes
Chain tiles to attack, defend, and gain resources
Enemies can place tiles that will damage you
You can play cards or create chains to damage and destroy enemy tiles
What To Expect
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No playthrough is ever the same
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Fill your deck with the perfect set of cards to battle your opponent and manipulate the game board
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Match tiles to attack, defend, gain resources, as well as destroy enemy tiles
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Discover powerful artifacts that will give you exciting new powers
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Choose your own path to determine your own fate
If you took a roguelike deckbuilder and mashed it with a strategic puzzle battler you’d have Demon’s Mirror. This is NOT a cheap mobile game filled with IAP!
Can you survive a trip through the mirror?
Dungeon Cards
Excellent RogueLite, simple gameplay that gets slightly more complex as new characters, powers and dungeons are unlocked.
The biggest problem with the game is the lack of gold drops, takes way too much grind to unlock upgrades, and after a while way too many strong monsters start spawning.
I might ask for gamepad support for those who don’t like to play with a mouse and keyboard.
EDIT 1: After playing this game for a while, realizing that four powers are better than three.
EDIT 2: Getting a high score rating for 1, 2 & 3 starts should give +1 MaxHP for that character.
– Real player with 130.8 hrs in game
I initially thought this was a fun, silly game, but with a few hours under my belt I have soured on this grindy, difficult slog of a game.
That said, I am six hours in, and I find myself drawn back to it, so I am changing my review back to a positive one. It has taken me this long to get to dungeon five, and there are a lot more to go. I can’t say I will stick to the end, but if I played for six hours, hard to say it stinks, even if it does get frustrating.
ADDENDUM: For people who like to get achievements, this game seems to be broken in that regard. I have earned a handful, and Steam shows me as not getting any. Doesn’t bother me, but I know some people whom it would.
– Real player with 79.3 hrs in game
Fight with love - deckbuilder datingsim
Go into fights and use word cards to construct sentences of love that damage your opponent if you do it right, maybe… there was no tutorial, so you just had to… work it out. I like the art though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTeow7UgGvA
– Real player with 10.2 hrs in game
This game sounded interesting at first. An unusual slay the spire type game. The problem is, it still feels like a barely playable demo even after being released from early access. It fixed the problem where the cards in your deck didn’t shuffle, but removed inventory, making the bar, theater and nightclub “date spots” all the same (Before, one sold healing items, one sold cards, and the other sold permanent buffs)
Also, the story is barely translated, and a lot of the cards had been rediculously censored. If this is a game about dating and sex, why can’t the cards swear?
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Nadir - Prologue: Slay the Six
Nadir - the point on the celestial sphere directly below an observer. It’s the direct opposite of the zenith… and your destination.
GAME DESCRIPTION: 🔥
Nadir - Prologue: Slay the Six is a free prologue to the dark deckbuilding roguelike adventure, with its artwork burning of infernal fire, and many extraordinary inspirations, the deepest of them coming straight from Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Control powerful, yet extremely blemished teams of characters, each representing one of the deadly sins. Fight using a plethora of unholy cards and try to escape the seemingly endless, multi-layered city.
TWIST ON A TURN SYSTEM 🔥
The Threat Counter shows how powerful the enemy’s attacks will become. There is no limit of played cards, but each of them adds points to the Threat Counter, so you’ll have to manage your risk-taking.
CHARACTER-BASED DECK BUILDING 🔥
Each character on your team contributes to your main deck; find synergies between each Sinner’s cards and build a dream (or nightmare) team.
CONTROL YOUR SINS 🔥
Every Sin has its own group of Sinners, shells that will bring its will to Nadir. As the sinners’ journey progresses, their power will grow, unlocking new abilities to fight even stronger threats. And if they shall fall, the abyss will produce more fools to try.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN APPROACH 🔥
Do you prefer raw damage or a more cunning way of poison? There is a multitude of different card effects to choose from. But remember that the enemy will attack you back, so you better look for cards that will decrease the Threat Counter.
CHALLENGING BOSSES 🔥
Each level of Nadir has its own Floor Guardian that you will have to defeat in order to go deeper into the city. But be careful, each of them has a unique ability!
REACH THE BOTTOM OF NADIR 🔥
This goal seems simple, but considering the characteristics of Sins, will they be able to divide the power between them?
A JOURNEY UNLIKE ANY OTHER 🔥
Watch your back on your way to the bottom of Nadir, taking time to admire its horrific look. It might feel familiar – from the wonders of the Divine Comedy, to desaturated aesthetics of Sin City, to the unforgettable design of Hellboy – yet not comfortable at all.
MODDING SUPPORT 🛠️
Devil’s in the detail and that’s why Nadir offers a built-in, extensive modding support for those who want to expand the world of Nadir and imprint their twisted fantasies onto every inch of the game.
