Death Howl

I want to give this a better review but a single design decision is just bewildering. The art, music, combat, and story are all great and I've got no complaints there. Death Howl is split up into 4 major zones. You unlock 36-42 cards in each of these zones, for a total of 160ish cards. Your Deck is 20 cards. Now the real issue is that every card unlocked in a zone costs 1 additional Mana to cast if you are using it while in another zone. Because you have a total of 5 Mana per turn and the average mana cost per card is less than 2, this makes all cards unlocked in a zone fundamentally terrible to use in any other zone. This is a Deck Building Game that has you draft 20 cards from a total of 40 cards for the vast majority of the game. There is almost no room for any creativity or linear progression until the final 5-10% of the game. This decisions doesn't even serve a purpose in actual combat encounters. The only reason this is here is so that the developers can tell you how to play their game instead of letting the player do so on their own terms.

Very Cool

Just didn't click for me. Despite having lots of things I like, unique art direction, tactical combat, and interesting story premises.

An excellent card battler game with wonderful pixel art and unique motifs. Losing your "death howls" is less of a punishment that it seems early on, and having too little health after a fight in a chain of multiple between save points is much more of an obstacle to overcome. The first zone can feel a bit daunting while you figure out how to make a good deck if you are not familiar with card battler mechanics and gimmics (as was the case for me), but if you are a frequent player of this genre, this game might feel a bit on the easier side to you. It felt well worth sinking my teeth into for me, and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting something of a puzzle to solve.

its good

got 40 hours in. its just a... great game its beautiful in art direction and in story its good in progression and how clever game makes you think about your deck, so gameplay will not become stale I had a great time, and hope you will have it to! Thanks, developers. That will last in my memory.