Racine

This card game is boring requiring almost zero thoughts and some cards crash it.

There's a lot to say about this game. A roguelite, auto-card battler with parrying. The game itself honestly is really fun, well, until you get tired of how slow and rng reliant the game is. The main problem to me at least, is how much it forces you to stall, and the RNG. Depending on the loadout the game pushes you into, fights end either too quick to really build up or are so slow that you hardly make any actual progress in each run. Essentially, the gameplay boils down to playing cards that either increase one of your 8 stats for the rest of the run bit by bit. That part I do like, however, you can hardly even choose what cards you get. Each run you start with 8 cards, 3 guaranteed heals and 5 completely random unlocked cards (that you've taken in a run). There's an upgrade which lets you reroll your starting deck, however it costs 10% of the in-run currency, which you start with 100% (the cap) and gain back from each fight at a rate of 1%-10%. So you either take a mid hand or roll away your currency in hopes of a good or even just a decent starting hand, which you could use for gaining more cards instead. Speaking of which, to gain more cards, you have to visit specific spot…

It's hard to have a reactive parry system when both you and the enemies' attacks queue is really awkward ways. Basically, playing a card cuts incoming damage by 50%, which is key to surviving. Unfortunately, the shield happens in real-time when the attacks queue up, meaning sometimes your own attacks will stall the enemy's attack unexpectedly, wasting your very scarce resource. Also, paying 5 resource to draw cards but only recouping 3 on discard makes managing your hand feel real bad. Just have card draw be on an automatic timer or something.

its a hot pile of garbage

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Solid Mechanics, very nice gameplay loop, satisfying progression, neat animations and background art, and really good sound design! The game clearly needs tweaking and polish here and there, and it did crash multiple times on me that I had to restart my run, but I'd still highly recommend this indie gem!! I hope that the developers would be motivated to update some character designs and tweak the story dialogue a bit, and give a little extra explanations here and there, if not, at the very least to just finish bug fixing.