Bag of Dreams

Extremely unique roguelike deckbuilder experience. You know how in StS, one of the most powerful things you can do in the shop is *remove* a card, and how it's often smart to avoid picking a card to add to your deck if it bloats it up? This game you are tossing and turning in your sleep trying to avoid negative cards being added to your deck consistently, which makes it a much more interesting option to fill your deck with a bunch of cheap cards (as they can outcompete the malus cards) There's a big BUT here though- your only way to "win" the dream is to unlock some kind of epiphany while sleeping that is your "win condition" - an extremely challenging arrangement of cards you have to lay out in certain order, and make just the right draws for. Unfortunately, this card also competes with both the malus cards and your cheap cards. There's also a great tension between "stability" vs "dust" in the game, where your sandman's dust is on each card and is used to buy new cards, but each card can also "heal" your dream a little bit to help avoid hitting a threshold at which a new malus is added. This creates a decision both in the evolution of your deck as well as your night-to-night…

I really enjoyed this game and found the mechanics pretty easy to pick up. It has a good optional tutorial section to learn about the different parts of the game and it's fun finding different cards and figuring out ways to use them. The art is adorable and the gameplay has good pacing.

Love all the art! while deckbuilding and roguelikes are not my favourite, I'm having fun

Note: I also played ~20 hours of the demo. This is a really unique and amazing combat-free roguelike deckbuilder, with nice polish and music. If you like solitaire card games, it's an excellent title. If you like "growth" cards in roguelikes, it's an AMAZING title. Every round, the deck will get more and more cluttered with a variety of terror cards that auto-play when drawn. These cards eat up the board space and also have other negative effects. Your other cards generate resources, have special effects, or work toward the self-selected victory condition (you must buy a card that has the victory condition). Often all 3 simultaneously. The closest analogy might be something like the boardgame Pandemic. There's a sense of rising tension, a nice balance of deck thinning (to get powerful cards) and deck bloating (to reduce % of terror cards). It's a meaty game well worth the price IMO, but try the demo if you are unsure.

Game is good. Good game.

I don't play roguelikes usually (mainly because I'm too bad at them), but this one is different. On lower difficulties, it's very manageable and is a lot of fun. For those of you who want to go more hardcore, there are 9 difficulties available, so I'm sure you will get your kicks. And it's so cozy! The art is so pretty and dreamy (pun somewhat intended). Can recommend; especially at this price, it's definitely worth it.