Hunter's Moon: A Sovereign Syndicate Adventure

Hunter’s Moon is a roguelite deckbuilder where the player must protect Victorian-era London from werewolves and other strange monsters. Combat will feel familiar to fans of other deckbuilders, while the progression of each run is very similar to Menace From The Deep. [h1]Combat[/h1] • At the start of each turn you’ll randomly draw a few cards from your deck, which allow you to attack, defend, or perform special abilities such as applying status effects to yourself or an enemy. Cards cost energy to play, and you have a limited amount of energy per turn. • Unused block reduces by half at the end of turn instead of disappearing completely. This means that even if you’re not being attacked on the current turn, playing a defence card isn’t a complete waste. However, this effect also applies to enemies. • The player character has both a health bar and a sanity meter. While most enemy attacks deal health damage, some monsters can reduce your sanity. You’ll die if either health or sanity reaches zero. Some cards or relics spend sanity points to apply buffs. • One of the biggest differences compared to MFTD is that your cards don’t earn XP when you play them, so you won’t …

This is one of those that define good, but not great. It's like any number of deck building rogue lites that you've played before. So the backdrop of this one is you get 1 of 4 different characters that allow you to play as with 4 unique deck styles. Good. The story. I actually really like the way the story is presented. I think the quest system going through each of it's 4 maps is pretty neat (The last map is just the final boss run) I think they do a good job establishing the lore and give some contact to the things you're doing in the game. It's rare you get that a whole lot in the deck builders so I'm happy with it. Sound design. Both in terms of voice acting and music. I wouldn't call either great, but both are very solid for a base price game of $20. Art direction. I think they do a good job with the eldritch style both for the monsters, characters and the backgrounds. Bad. Class balance. The game really only seems to have 2 viable end game classes . with one other one being kind of mid, and one being just awful. This is pretty disappointing. Difficulty spikes. The games difficulty spikes feel more frustrating than fun. Especially going to the last fight where it …

In the week since I’ve gotten Hunter’s Moon, I’ve put more than 30 hours into it. While it has a few fun twists on common rogue-like deckbuilder mechanics and a solid theme, I suspect it grabbed me because of how powerful the characters feel when they revisit old locations or find the right synergies. But initially, I had mixed feelings about the game, because the first few locations seemed too easy to provide a sense of accomplishment. I kept waiting for an optional way to ramp up the difficulty, but outside of a randomly-available tarot card that accelerates monster growth, I couldn't find one. This was worrying, because as the player gains experience, they also gain access to upgrades that make their decks even stronger. Eventually, I realized that the difficulty selection comes from deciding which of the four mission locations to visit. If I wanted to relax and feel powerful, or to gather materials to unlock permanent upgrades, I could send the armored scientist Grizwald back to the initial location and leverage the upgrades I’d already unlocked to zap the enemies into oblivion. When I wanted more of a challenge, I could dispatch my least favorite character to face the ultima…

Good game

Fun.

Very poor game. Very boring, and very amateurish. Expected a lot, lot better.