The Dark Horde

It's hard to give this game a recommendation. There's a lot of creativity put into this. The idea of cards costing units of time is kinda genius, the "miracles" are an interesting way to deter small decks (but they feel a bit too oppressive later), the basic actions are a nice touch, and all of these classes (really just initial starting cards) offers some interesting variety. I love theorycrafting my deck, but i do not enjoy how this game makes you theorycraft currency. There's a chance that peasants will drop gold on the ground or souls in the air, but you only get the gold if you send a goblin to go collect it, and vacuum the souls in time before they reach the top of the screen. If the goblin doesn't make it back in time, or if you just leave gold on the ground by the time the round is over, you don't get the gold (regardless if you defeated the enemy). This forces you to incorporate collection methods into your deck, and play slower (not just demolish the enemy). So now you're almost required to lean on specific overpowered cards and combinations because you need fewer cards (allowing for collection cards) to build a successful deck. The collection meta this game incentivizes …

If you have ever played the OG flash game stick tower defense, this is like that but way better. -Defend your tower against a village that spawns enemies using a deck of minions and spells. -Multiple factions for variety and strategy. -After every round upgrade your tower, deck, and cards for more depth. -uses a turn based system for actions. -lots of replay value. Game is worth more than i paid.

Pretty fun game, really good build variety

this is remarkably fun, and only gets better the more i understand and play it; developer very clearly cares about what they're creating

Fun cardgame if you can look past the AI art and very budget presentation.

It's actually pretty solid. For early access, there's very few issues — the only notable one is the sound glitching when you hover over cards during a screen change every so often. There's (hopefully) some balancing to be done as the RNG can be overly brutal at some points, but I haven't seen anything that seems like a total barrier. Most of the big plateaus in difficulty are handled by using a different deck at a lower level and leveling up. There's a lot to unlock and the gameplay is pretty engaging too.