Blood Rising

The ideas and concept are appealing, and the game content is quite exciting. However, as the enemy cards keep getting stronger, my own cards eventually reach their growth limit, making further additions impossible, which leads to a stalemate and the game ends. Although talents gradually increase my base stats, extending the playtime, the lack of strategic depth leaves something to be desired. Since the game is free, I think it’s best to enjoy and appreciate its brilliant concept and ideas. I sincerely hope that the developers continue to experiment with new ideas and make the game even more enjoyable.

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Blood Rising is a pretty interesting little roguelike because it completely flips the usual vampire fantasy around. Instead of playing as a hero hunting monsters, I take control of a vampire ancestor who has to defend himself against waves of adventurers. I liked that idea immediately because it gives the game a fun change of perspective, especially when I start turning defeated enemies into servants who fight for me. The combat is built around cards and abilities, with my servants becoming an important part of how I survive. I use my skills to defeat enemies and convert them into combat units, while those servants can become stronger as they defeat more enemies themselves. I enjoyed watching that progression happen during a run because it makes every successful fight feel useful rather than simply rewarding me with a temporary score. There is also a nice resource loop built around enemy drops. Defeated enemies can leave behind useful items, while souls allow me to improve my abilities between battles. I liked having both immediate rewards and longer term upgrades because it gives me something to think about during and after each encounter. It also makes a bad run feel a little l…

6/10 Card battler in vampire setting TLDR: There is an interesting basic idea of converting enemy cards as the only way to get any cards, as you don't have a deck. Aside from lack of proper onboarding, the main issue here is unclear descriptions of enemy cards Good: + free + a novel idea in a card battler: instead of playing cards from your deck, you can only convert enemy cards with a special ability So-so: +/- okay-ish looks, AI-generated cards. The UI is mediocre as well. When you pick a target for a spell, there is a huge arrow showing up, with thick scaled-up contours +/- too few music tracks, get annoying after a while +/- no story Bad: - onboarding is just a big lazy popup with all the rules written out. Instead, I'd expect an interactive tutorial "click here, click there because XYZ". It took me a couple of lost battles to figure out that there is a mana bar at the bottom (and not the counter in the top-left corner), or that converted cards can attack. Though I never figured out why some of my cards could attack only some enemy cards and not other cards. And those explanations in the big popup weren't sufficient - descriptions of enemy cards are just short lines that do…

It's free. It's not bad, fun, but it needs a lot of polish. But it's free so, definitely fun enough to warrant trying if you enjoy this kind of game. It would be nice to see more minion types. Some of the enemy abilities are a bit weird. There is no explanation of when or why enemies hit you vs your minions. Guard doesn't seem to work AT ALL on your own minions. But the concept is good and it's worth sinking time into a few runs.