Deliverance & Reign

Deliverance & Reign is like Creed & Alter Bridge. One of these is clearly better than the other. DELIVERANCE (no relation to the Opeth album with the same name) is a card roguelike, pretty basic one. It's a bit annoying as losing one fight makes you lose the entire run and well... all coins you have gathered through that point. So my strategy was simple: cash out on the 1st or 2nd floor and repeat until I had enough cash to get all the cards and speedrun my way through the tower. Is this a good game design? I'm not sure. If you want to play it differently then you'll have a miserable experience. I'd rate this 6/10 max. Next we've got REIGN (No IGN workers were harmed in the writing of this review). This one is much more fun. You play as John Alaric and must protect your castle from wretched invaders (heroes from Deliverance). The gameplay loop is simple: place cards strategically on 3 floors, use spells to strengthen them and solve puzzles as each wave has a different boss with various special negative effects that will fall upon you. This game is 8/10 easily. So that's Deliverance & Reign. There's a free demo, I'd urge you to check it out and find out if this is worth any money. I…

If I hadn't already played both of the games this directly clones, it'd be decent. But, I'd recommend just playing Monster Train (the reign side) instead. The other side is a clone of fate hunters but not sure I'd really recommend playing that game, let alone the much weaker version found here. It's briefly fun but gets tedious quickly and basically the only build that matters is "take any card that draws cards"

Good game. I was playing for months and it was still fun. There are few things in UI that can be better. For example browsing your deck is done in window that is half of screen height, and margin around it is wasted space, it makes browsing your deck harder than it have to be. Pressing escape on keyboard doesn't close opened window. And if you make a lot of moves in single round, then game starts to have a bit of lag after every move. But it didn't stop me from enjoying the game.

https://youtu.be/SCDIOXD8crQ Removing the energy mechanic and relying instead fully on draw/discard mechanics removes far too much player choice in handling turns.

This is just a worse version of fate hunters and monster train mashed into one game where both these parts are still seperate games but pretty much exactly the same games just worse... Its really weird. I don't really understand why the developers made this game. Its such such a weird thing to create. There is no benefit ingame either; no common unlocks or anything. Its just two separate games in one... Also the progression is really really bad and annoying. Guys; why did you make this game? Its so such a weird product.

The game is functional and not bad on his own merit. It has some missing Quality of Life features that make the experience a bit raw. It is at the core redesign of Fate Hunters and Monster Train bundle together and sell not too expensive. It has remind me of those games and I had preferred to replay those.