Sweep (2025)

Translation from my language to English using ChatGPT: Sweep is a game that uses classic playing cards, where the strength of your hand determines your score — which becomes the damage dealt to enemies. If you land a four of a kind, you achieve what's called a "Sweep", which increases your damage multiplier and gives you other bonuses depending on your trinkets. You have to get rid of all your cards before the monsters’ attack timer runs out. Otherwise, you’ll take damage based on the number value of the cards you failed to discard when playing your hands. Since enemy HP constantly increases, you also need to scale up the strength of your hands by purchasing trinkets and damage multiplier seals for your cards. The game’s core structure, of gradually building a high score, is very similar to Balatro. However, it would be unfair to call Sweep a copy, because its "flesh" and "skin" are different — for instance, many of its hands (like sequences of more than five cards) don’t exist in traditional poker. As someone who really enjoys card games and roguelikes, I had already played the demo for over 3 hours, and since the price was right for me, I bought the full game. ✅ Positives: 1)…

Sweep has a very captivating roguelike game play loop. Stringing playing cards together into complex straights and funneling the them as bullets into enemies is quite satisfying. The strategy found in picking/adding cards for a hand and juggling the possible length of a Straight with the allure of the all-powerful Sweep, a Four-of-a-kind hand that grants a damage-multiplayer for the remained of the encounter, makes manipulating the given 17 cards real depth that I found consistently engaging. I definitely recommend this to Balatro and Dungeons & Degenerates players, as well as anyone looking a uniquely crafted turn-based rougelike experience. The only real downside I've encountered in my time with Sweep so far is that the occasional dialog has some hiccups when appearing on-screen, it is still completely fluent, but is visually mildly distracting for the few times it comes up. TLDR: I'm a Big Fan!