Aurum (2025)

It's a perfectly okay shopkeeper roguelike game. The card selection is kinda underbaked. The strategic depth is not great. After 2-3 hours it feels like I've done everything there is to do here. The asking price for me was $13 USD which is kinda ambitious. If it feels harder than normal on the hardest level (#4, I think, is vastly harder than the rest), I think the winning solution is that this game is much less about type synergy than most other roguelikes. E.g. Alexandrium increases the multiplier of gems, which can be massive, but the most powerful effect to multiply I've found is the Spice that adds your hand-size to all neighboring cards. And the card/action point boosts are most impressive in Fabrics. The game is not well suited for hand sizes of 20+ but you're forced to pick a new card each time and there are extremely few ways to remove them, so just get used to it I guess.

10/10 Would work retail again