Kaya's Prophecy

I like both card based roguelites, and stacklands - esque games so I thought this game would be perfect for me. Unfortunately, it feels like this game, in attempting to do both, has missed the mark on what makes both genres fun. In Card based roguelites, balatro, STS, etc, the fun is in trying to break the game, and customize your deck in a way that feels fun and unique. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to modify your starter deck, and your card selection is largely tied to the equipment you equip. The most you can do are modify tactical slots, but these aren't enough to make it feel like your deck is really doing anything special. As a result, it never feels like your deck hits huge levels of power. Would recommend making the deck more customizable, but also increase the difficulty of the encounters to compensate. In stacklands esque games, the joy is building a village, and having basic resources become easy to get, as you begin to achieve higher and higher tiers of complexity. For example, in stacklands they gradually unlock quarries and other cards that allow you to farm large amounts of a basic resource. This game attempts to do that with "fishing spots",…

I replayed Stacklands too many times and really just wanted SL2, but this scratches the itch. Kaya combines the card-merger & deck builder genres for an overall experience that is greater than the sum of its parts. The card-merger portion is where you spend most of your time and is decent, maybe 6/10 if SL is a 10. The deck builder portion (similar to Slay the Spire) is much weaker when compared to a stand-alone game, like a 3/10 with very limited deck customization. Still, when combined, the loop between the 2 genres fit perfectly and the overall experience was quite fun for me, helped by beautiful sound and art.

I bought this because I like stacklands but this game is worse than all of its parts. Really did not enjoy it. would not recommend.

Stacklands related: Yes Peaceful and a zen type of game with a balance progression: No, not on my experience at least. Did I enjoy it?: The first couple of minutes until everything went downhill fast. Food requirement went up to 2 digits and Koa had to sit in a few lagoons an entire day just to get the annoying god out of the way. Until then, it was all just punishments after punishments. I'm not having this game anymore. I'm sorry but it's not happening. I can see why people like it, It has that stacklands feel and I love that game so much, but parts where my organized things gets reshuffled and toss around everywhere becomes too much of a hassle than a feature. When there's already so much cards going about, a single tornado sweep immediately throws my peaceful run away. I didn't really expect that each punishment would be tornado after tornado. It was just nothing but tordanoes and koa losing health from it...

Positive review with the caveat that this game is best for children. This game is a bit STS and a bit Stacklands, but with a difficulty level, reading comprehension, and goal management tailored for young children. Anyone who has played a lot of STS is going to be able to autopilot the easy combat, and anyone familiar with city building is going to be able to autopilot the card stacking. This is not for those people. This is for kids, who will eventually graduate to STS and city builders. As an adult, I still had fun with this game, but I got it for a bargain price of $1. It was an interesting few hours.

Its ok in concept, but there is only one way to play the game, there is only one solution and you will autopilot combat (of there isnt enough of) and autopilot resource gathering, there is no skill expresion nor real progresion.