Gemblades

Art style super cool, but the gameplay seems to be pretty bland/uninteresting sadly :/ The difficulty is easy, losing feels impossible. Therefore most of the fun is actually in making your deck/turns as optimal as possible however, for some reason the hand size limit decides to be the feature that actually actively becomes anti-fun since you can't go infinite with draws. Normally this would be fine if the game is actually challenging, but when the ONLY fun thing about your game is big numbers and busted decks, why not let all hell loose? Also can play through the entire content of *5 difficulties* within a 2-hour span so it's actually insanely easy to refund as well. Which might be what I'd recommend since I don't think it has the necessary amount of replayability. Maybe if decks could be customized or hand sizes could go infinite, I'd recommend. But to cost €7,99 in its current state? Feels more like some sorta demo/early access tbh

Pretty interesting! be aware that this is not really a Deckbuilder roguelike but more a Arcade Solitaire / Board game if you get what i mean, everything that this game does i feel like it can be replicated with real life cards. Anyway it's a breath of fresh air and it doesn't do anything other than gameplay so there is no lore no currency to spend, that's why it's more of an arcade game but that's still pretty cool, really recommend if you are looking for some new formula on card games.

Good ascensionesque card game. Interesting deckbuilding, replayable.

good game

Extremely light on content. There are only 5 main levels and I cleared them all in just over an hour. It's also very easy; I never even came close to losing. What's worse is the lack of strategic depth. These kinds of games are normally multiplayer, and strategy ends up revolving around trying to assess where you stand in relation to the other players and responding accordingly. Without any direct opponent(s), you can basically just do whatever you want all the time. Exacerbating this issue is the presence of only 3 colors of cards instead of the usual 4. Furthermore, there isn't much encouraging you to specialize into any particular color. Draw effects are plentiful and make fulfilling any of the various requirements on cards easy. Every turn just becomes "draw a bunch of cards, make a ton of resources, then spend them on the most expensive things you can". There's a hand size limit, presumably to counter this strategy, but it's not enough and instead just feels like an anti-fun mechanic. By the time you are regularly hitting the limit, a win is all but inevitable and you'd rather just pop off and enjoy the ridiculous overpowered deck you've made instead of being told no.

I was too busy having fun with the game to realize I hadn't reviewed it yet! How silly. If you've got a part of your brain that itches to optimize things and get your turn count as low as it'll go, Gemblades is probably for you. The game itself isn't especially difficult, I'd go so far as to say getting a win is almost guaranteed. Whether you win or not isn't exactly the point though, the fun comes from score chasing, as everything you do has so much room to be done [i] better [/i]. From the list of cards you ban before even playing, to the usual deckbuilder decisions of which cards you bloat your deck with or trim, to even tiny things you wouldn't normally consider in the middle of your turn, it can all have such a huge impact on how much value you can squeeze out. The order in which you do [i] anything [/i] can easily be the difference between a dud turn or squeezing 30 extra gems out of nowhere and shaving another turn off your record, and when you do it just makes you wanna start another run right away to see if you can pull it off again! (The friendly people over on the official discord are also a good motivator :D) If that sounds fun I'll see you on the leaderboards :>