Nowhere Prophet

[h1] [b]It's all about decisions[/b] Card game with emphasis on choices you make. Explore map by moving from node to node. Encounters, camps, opportunities are common. Each move cost some resources - food, hope and batteries. Share some resources to get more hope. Gain followers to become more powerful in fight. Battles begin on board where you deploy troops (cards) and use abilities (also cards). Units that you summon can't attack in the same turn. Protect the leader and take down your foe. Instead of improving stats when your leader level up, gain access to more powerful cards. Overall I like this one for freedom of choices and decision making. If you don't mind strategy games involving card usage with simple visuals, you're set. [/h1]

This is a good, or even great deckbuilder severely hurt by RNG in its roguelike mechanics causing major balance issues. The music, art, worldbuilding, and story are all good, but the card combos are too difficult to pull off due to the roguelike mechanics. Balancing both an Ixion / Frostpunk style encounter and survival resource management system and the deckbuilding game at the same time is certainly fun and tense! However, you don't reliably get synergistic cards to build specific deck types to make meaningful, strong combos. I'm able to reliably get to the final boss of the first scenario, but once the boss reaches its second form it's basically a roll of the dice on whether or not you get steamrolled. It's really sad because I truly do think this game is, at its core, very skillfully-made. It's just not well-balanced in my opinion. I enjoy difficult games and deck builders, but this one is too difficult, and for the wrong reasons. I'd recommend picking up "Anode Heart: Layer Null" or "Death Howl" if you want a deckbuilder with less RNG and no roguelike mechanics, or Slay the Spire if you want well-balanced roguelike mechanics.

Battles take...forever. So long. I found them to be tedious and uninteresting. I've never made it past the first run. The boss spawns so many enemies, and has armor, that it makes things last for so long that I lose interest. It's painfully slow. Absurdly so.

Having sunk a lot of hours into other deckbuilding roguelikes, hearthstone and MTG, this game is good but has one or two big issues I can't get over. Basically, enemy cards in hand is hidden information. In games with hidden information like Hearthstone and MTG, you still usually can intuit what deck they are playing and play around what you think they might be doing. You just can't in this. Yeah sure, there are factions that you fight with slightly different playstyles, but they also play each others cards often enough that you can't really get a read on them. It's enough of a variance that it has made me view most fights as generic, as they just kinda throw whatever random stuff at you. My one win (being my 2nd or 3rd attempt) was basically stockpiling every Rare unit and then giving my leader a bunch of removal options to kill enemy units. You are best off building generically good slop without falling into a specific playstyle. This is because your units will get permanently removed from your deck if they die twice. So go for big stated units, and removal/kill spells. ANYWAYS Good until you get in deep with the gameplay. Feels like rng is why you lost and not your own skil…

a really fun card game with ressource management, that makes it especially challenging. if you like mtg or similar games and also enjoy a little bit of survival, then this is for you! also, i playtested it at gamescom a couple of years ago and the dev was very nice :)

one of the best games i've played. So underrated because of the hard difficulty, which actually makes the game much more addictive and realistic. I mean, The world is about you being sacrificed or sacrificing.