Lost Bazaar
Lost Bazaar developers · 2020 · Free to Play, Strategy, Indie, Casual, Early Access
PC
9 user reviews89% · 9
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About Lost Bazaar
Welcome to the Lost Bazaar
If you are in dire need for the scales of justice, a polylingual dictionary, or maybe a flyswatter to deal with those pesky efreets, you are not going to find it in your average store. Come to the Lost Bazaar - the interdimensional market where merchant-princes are selling enchanted objects for an almost honest price. In this game, you are impersonating one such aspiring merchant, trying to make a fortune at every opportunity. However, the laws of supply and demand are harsh, and many would-be lords who tried to claim a piece of the pie have fallen into poverty since the Bazaar first opened its gates. In order to stay in business, you must turn the powers of your wares against the competition!
What do you wish to play today?
Lost Bazaar is a point-accumulating board game/card game hybrid, where 2 to 4 players fight for the dominance of advantageous tiles with cards drawn from a single, common deck. Play online or hotseat against other players, and choose from more than 20 boards and premade decks. Alternatively, you can show the AI opponent that humankind is still superior, or if you seek peace and enlightenment, challenge yourself with one of the devious puzzles.
Wheels will be turning
The gameplay bears a resemblance to the mechanics seen in trading card games, but there is a twist. Because you do not build a deck solely for yourself, you cannot plan and enforce your strategy on others. Instead, you rely on your creativity to find combos on the fly, and make elaborate traps with whatever junk you managed to obtain. As the number of items on the board is going up, so does the difficulty to keep up with the plans.
We hope you like cards...
There are a grand total of 69 beautifully illustrated item cards, ranging from seemingly mundane household objects to antique trinkets, all with a different ability to aid your cause. Some are just pretty and sell well, while others can move, wreck, turn upside down or otherwise manipulate the rest of the cast. So don your hard hat, pack your hourglass and keep an eraser in your pockets, since you'll need to be prepared for anything!
The only thing you'll be grinding is coffee
While gradually building a card collection is definitely exhilarating, getting repeatedly beaten by cards you do not have is not. Lost Bazaar is devoted to the principle that all players get access to all the gameplay-affecting content from the very beginning. It is for free, but you can haggle!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Nice abstract that features placement tactics and a common deck. I tried it out and it works remarkably well. The basic system is very easy but provides room for a lot of variations and different tactics. I dont know if there is a table top version of it, but i would sure buy. Gamewise definitely worth trying out if you are into abstract, tactical games. Horrible interface and graphics though. I would advice to tune it a bit. https://store.steampowered.com/app/977830/Lost_Bazaar/# - Though you can turn off the board rotation, it is confusing EVERY turn when its on. - Also there is no real point in having cards upside down in play, as the color tells you who's card it is, it only makes it more confusing. - The indication that something is on a special tile (profit, protective etc.) is confusing as well. The bottom bar is a players color, unless it is on a special tile, than it has that color. And than the board rotates. Ultra confusining. Making topbar (which will ALWAYS be top regardless of a players turn) player color and bottom bar indicate the underlying tile would make things a lot clearer. - The material is clear in the preview pane, but once on the board, it is totally un…2 found this helpful
[quote][b]Note: Dead PvP game[/b] This game contains no meaningful single player content. There's no viably populated servers/active player population. This game cannot be played as intended.[/quote] "Lost Bazaar" is a mediocre "chess with cards" multiplayer boardgame that was never fully made, abandoned, and never even made it to mobile app stores/web publication (yet somehow got published on Steam, which I'm pretty sure was never intended to be a launcher for browser games). What do you do in the game? The merchant theme is kind of irrelevant, if anyone played this, they would be putting down cards that move around a "chess" board and try to dominate as many tiles as possible. The developers abandoned this 5 years and 4 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games. For gameplay purposes, because the user interface for this game is mostly just 2D static text/images... it might as well be a web page. It's functionally no different from a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browse…1 found this helpful
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Игра 'Lost Bazaar' — это настоящее погружение в мир восточной мистики и загадок. Атмосфера игры захватывает с первых минут: тусклое освещение, пыльные прилавки, наполненные диковинными товарами, и таинственные силуэты торговцев создают неповторимое ощущение присутствия. Сюжет развивается неторопливо, но каждый найденный артефакт, каждая расшифрованная надпись приближают игрока к разгадке древней тайны. Механики поиска предметов и решения головоломок реализованы на высоком уровне, заставляя мозг работать, но не вызывая фрустрации. Музыкальное сопровождение идеально дополняет происходящее, добавляя глубины и погружения. Это игра, которая вознаграждает внимательного игрока и оставляет после себя приятное послевкусие.
Fun take on the tile/tactical card/board game genre. The systems are thought out and intuitive. A game to play with friends, match with someone and have a battle of wits where you're constantly trying to outsmart each other. Not having drawing a card at the start of the round is probably a mistake since, while there is a reason to draw later on in the turn, it's a niche situation, so the default should probably be changed. That's my biggest gripe with the game.
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