Dreamcards

🔸 EXPECTATIONS: simply a deckbuilder, didn't expect much more. 🔸 REALITY: a roguelike deckbuilder with an initial learning barrier and a huge amount of content. 🔷 Dreamcards is a roguelike deckbuilder that's hard to get in. Card types are represented by astrology symbols, so there's a steep learning curve, at first, to know that Mars are action points, Mercury means 'draw' and Saturn is 'discard', to name a few, but the tutorial is gentle and explains all symbology and 'run stages' clearly. From there it's smooth sailing through a game that has a lot to offer and unlock. 🔹 Runs in Dreamcards consist in 7 days (or stages), and each day is divided into two phases, daytime and night. In short, daytimes are for acquiring cards, while nights are for fighting nightmares with those cards. Nights are complex to explain in full here, but basically you manage resources of different types, supported by your chosen synergies, until you get +10 score over the enemy's score. 🔹 During the day you are presented with choices in a narrative form: we may spend time with our friend, sibling, mother, etc., and that grants cards of a certain type. We can also add stickers to cards, slightly modi…

Good roguelite with pretty visuals. It's not as deep as some other card games of this kind but it's very entertaining for a few hours. The tutorial seemed too convoluted to me, so I just jumped into a game without really understanding it, but once I did understand, I really enjoyed playing. The combos become obvious after a few runs. It took me about 4 hours to win a run on the easiest difficulty. I wish the daytime visuals were more polished, though, and there needs to be more diversity in the cards. The 100 steam achievements is also overkill, it's never that fun to get achievements for doing almost nothing, nor is it fun having this long list of things to do to get them.

I'm dreaming of a nightmare within these cards

Highly recommend Dreamcards if you like deckbuilding rogue-lites with a wonderful art style, awesome card synergies, customisable/upgradable cards and a touching heart at its core featuring astronomy, astrology and tarot. I literally have never seen a game like this before. I very quickly got so sucked in, i played it for 68 hours despite a completed run lasting around 2 hours. It was so fun (and a tiny bit frustrating) to complete achievements because they unlock new cards in the various decks you mix and match your own deck with and add so much variety and additional strategies to combat. Went all the way and got 99/100 achievements (unfortunately the very last one is virtually impossible and would most likely require another 60 hours). Special attention to the characters: I loved the characters represented by the archetypes, how we learn more about them and their relationship to Ourselves through brief yet creative still-cutscenes. It added a layer of intrigue, delight and sorrow to unlock more cards and learn more tidbits from their lives. Tldr; Highly recommend this game for card game lovers, very unique and with lots of heart, gameplay is slightly easy to pick up…

As someone who has not played many deck building games, much less a roguelike deck builder, I was shocked at how much fun I have playing Dreamcards. The more minimal and laid-back vibe of Dreamcards is perfect for when you just want to take your time to build your strategy, and I personally enjoy feeling rushed to make any decisions after a long day of work. This game can be punishing at times, which makes it even more rewarding when you find a new synergy you like. The art style, card names, stickers, and other mechanics all create such a cozy and silly atmosphere that keeps bringing me back to this game. Definitely recommend to both fans of the genre or those who (like me) are new to games like this. As others have already mentioned, the beginning of the game can feel overwhelming. At least for me, with my limited experience with similar games, keeping track of all of the different mechanics and points during the tutorial was not easy. Still, I think the devs did a good job with the tutorial since I was able to play and go pretty far on my first run. Seeing how the points are used/converted in the practice round also made it much easier to put everything together. One recommend…

It is a unique, beautiful game that is clearly made with a lot of love. It is easy to lose hours in this game trying new strategies and going 'what if' I would love to see this game continue to grow and be tuned as i feel like some strategies are more consistent and pwoerful than others, but its an absolute blast as it is and love the amount of risks that the devs took