One Deck Galaxy

A great experience on its own and the most approachable way to learn the physical card game. Playing this version makes it easier to understand the rules for the physical game. If you haven't heard of One Deck Galaxy, it's a reimagining of the One Deck Dungeon system into a crunchy, complex civilization-building game. You choose a homeworld and a society to get bonuses, and then you're rolling a pool of dice to explore colonies, fight off hostile encounters, expand your dice pool, unlock tech actions, build fleets, and research technology to upgrade your starbase. Meanwhile, you must chip away at an adversary that opposes you at every turn, limiting your actions and resources in diverse ways and growing with you throughout the game. It's a lot of fun, but it's got a huge learning curve, and players fill the game forums with questions even several plays in. This is one reason the digital version is so good: not only does the tutorial carefully guide you through everything, but the game itself mediates many of these common rules confusions as it runs the game for you. Not to mention the physical game doesn't come with a soundtrack. Whether you own the physical game or not…

Steep learning curve. great game.

Very enjoyable game. Lot's of dice manipulation mechanics. Although the gameplay a lot more complex, I honestly like this better than One Deck Dungeon.

A good adaptation of a solid IRL solo card game. Fair warning - this is based on a real card game, so if you're used to Slay the Spire and the like, don't expect this game to do nearly as much automatically. Also, expect a bit of a rules nuke in the tutorial. Once you're through it though, very fun! (if quite difficult)

I found the concept intriguing but the execution flawed. This might be a case where the physical game is just more fun to play, but I found this game was incredibly (almost needlessly) complicated. The game starts at basically its hardest possible and only goes up from there. It's got a very poor tutorial and never before have I just felt pure frustration right from the start. It might be good, but I give up. If I can't even see the glimmer of fun to be had I don't even want to try. It's one of those games that seems like it wants to be highly variable but is far too punishing to be so. You will just be dealt losing hands from the jump and you might as well just restart. Getting my money back. I don't even want to play One Deck Dungeon, I'm yanking that right off the wishlist.

I can't tell whether this game has a very steep learning curve or is just poorly balanced, but either way, it isn't particularly [i]fun[/i]. Most of the time, the gameplay feels less like making progress and more like slowly drowning. Unless you're a particular kind of masochist, give this one a miss.