Boardlike

the gameplay loop gets repetitive very quickly. if you die its gg prepare to grind and spam click dice roll. Good idea with the breeding but poor execution. Needs a rework entirely.

Was a good game at the start but get's very boring when you have a stacked up character and have to spend quite a while going through the first few levels over and over again constantly clicking away (always better to have some keyboard short cuts). there are far too many glitches such as your cards disappearing on a reload (also an insta-kill card said it's with 2 action points when winning it but in the deck it said 7), the game sometimes not counting your upgrades when levelling up, you losing your locked in parents in a breeding ceremony after loading a game out and completing a run, also when returning with a character you've buffed after leaving a run, they do not appear in the character list in the breeding ceremony. This is the character you are using that has not died whose stats you can see, but they aren't in the breeding ceremony. When loading a game out and starting a run, your selected add-on perk won't be active even though you had set it up when breeding the character. Also the alternative options get limited after a while as you don't have much after your legacy, nothing else in the home page and the add-on selective perk becomes redundant after a few hours and no…

Breed. Adventure. Roll. Level up. Escape. Breed. Repeat.

Fun

Game has lots of potential, but is currently not in a very enjoyable state. It is incredibly hard to get very far unless you build a defense based deck, and focus on the defense and hp stats. MAYBE once you make several successful runs, get the right family breeding pool, and breed a character that starts with high hp and defense, then you could work on upping another stat. Once you unlock a card, you basically have it forever, and you have access to all your cards at any moment, and can change your deck up at any moment. I would prefer your deck to be more limited, and you get those kinds of upgrades and more unique ways to play throughout your run. As it stands, the only really roguelike elements you might run into being the roll of the dice in where you land on the board, and the random items you obtain all the way. Those items effect a variety of stats, but they feel nearly worthless, and incredibly boring. I honestly stopped even looking at what I picked up because my defense stat was so high I could basically go on for a long time, unless I just chose to head back so I could have a better character for the family breeding pool. I can not currently recommend it in its current …

This is such a unique, one-of-a-kind game which blends so many genres together and does it very very well. While in its early state it is easy to use a defense strategy to absolutely break the first few regions of the game, by the fourth/fifth region, the old and previously game-breaking strategies don't work as well and you need to think on your feet to modify your deck (and monetary position) to try and survive. Super fun, feels replayable, has a large metaprogression tree and you can really feel the effects of the meta-progression (especially the Ink Mine). What's not to love? A big bonus is that it also has a very responsive developer who really takes their players' thoughts into account.