Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG

Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG combines tactical turn-based combat, deckbuilding, roguelike progression, and tabletop-inspired exploration into a surprisingly cohesive strategy experience. Developed by D20Studios and published by D20Studios and WhisperGames, it distinguishes itself from conventional collectible card games by turning cards into pieces of a larger tactical system. Instead of simply playing attacks and abilities from a hand, players summon creatures, position characters, manipulate terrain, and take advantage of environmental objects across compact battlefields. Each adventure begins with choosing a Summoner before heading into a fantasy world filled with encounters, quests, merchants, characters, treasures, dangerous enemies, and unpredictable events. Exploration happens at a comfortable pace before encounters transition into turn-based battles. This structure gives the experience the feeling of a digital tabletop campaign, especially when random events and dice-driven situations enter the equation. There is a playful quality to the world as well, with strange creatures and unusual encounters keeping the journey from becoming a predictable sequence of battles. Comba…

This is a highly underplayed and underrated game. I was so impressed by this game that I looked up all the other popular releases around May 11 2023 to see if it was just overlooked by some viral gaming fad that had enthralled the gaming populace, and outside a very popular Switch game, nothing really stood out. So for some reason this masterpiece is sitting on the virtual "back shelf" of Steam collecting dust. Please buy and review this game, it deserves so much more attention, and a sequel.

I'm playing through my steam library in mostly alphabetical order and thought it would be fun to give short steam reviews for each game if I would recommend them or not. Turn-based roguelikes is a genre that is quite intriguing to me. Sadly, this game didn't hook me. The combats felt boring and very "bigger number wins" with not much tactics, and despite the graphics definitely having real effort put into them, I just don't think it looks good. The way the characters break their neck to stare at you looks especially bad. This leads to a game I find quite boring gameplay wise and quite ugly looks wise. This game has overwhelmingly positive, and definitely for a reason. There are things here to like, and I would not be able to call this game "bad" outright by any means and other reviewers and players seem to love it, but from my own view it was simply not enjoyable. 4/10 (Also, the price is a bit steep)

Was a fun mobile game, but linking with my steam corrupted both accounts, and ruined my progress and stole the dlc on the mobile version (actually stole 30$ worth of dlc, now the account says it doesn't match credentials, despite my logins going through successfully. Cannot start the game. So actually stealing my money leaves me with a do not recommend.

This scratches every itch for me personally, one of my top favorite games. It is dangerous how time will slip away when I play. Very excited for multiplayer, got my team built already!

Great roguelike/tactics/deckbuilder with great mechanics. Suprisingly deep and every run feels different.