Takara Cards

This game is sweet, simple but challenging gameplay. A recommend. Takara Cards does many things right. This is a simple card battle in a grid-based battlefield. There are many things could influence your card, like karma and equipment so even with the same card it could give you different result based on RNG. You improve your karma by interacting with the world at each stop after each battle. Each starting race also offers unique playstyle so if you get bore in 1 character you could create another for unique feels. The art design of this game is phenomenal, from simple enemies drones to character avatar, from sector's environment to cockpit's view. The music of this game is also S tier chilling slap. I even recommend you buy the soundtrack to chill outside of gaming. The game content is too short. While it could be endless because of roguelite nature of the game, but it took you about 10 hrs to see all it is in the game. This may not be a con for many, but this game could be so much more with its various system in place. The chat log in each section is small, but offer VALUABLE information and exchange, but because it is small, most player will miss it when they visit a shop. The…

Card battler probably inspired by FTL,

Neat card game on a small grid. I had fun with this one

Cobalt Core if it was written in runes. It has a strong aesthetic and shows a lot of potential, but it struggles with communicating how it wants you to play, and how it wants you to play is a bit ideosyncratic. If you like mysterious card games, I think you'll have a pretty decent time parsing this one. There are *lots* of elements to the system that maybe do something, but it's not automatically clear what. And there are a lot of ways to screw yourself during play that the game doesn't telegraph. All of its menus feel tactile, like operating unfamiliar heavy machinery, and I don't think this is necessarily bad. I want to see this studio make more stuff, because the potential here is off the charts. And I don't mind having spent money here if it results in more cool neon jank in the future. But the everything else is not quite as strong as the visual presentation, and there doesn't seem to be any progression, so I don't feel terribly drawn to play much further.

Incredibly bland roguelike.

Needs a specific launch command to work in Steam Deck desktop mode without getting stuck on the launch screen, meaning if I want to play without being docked I need to modify launch commands, shouldn't have the "verified" tag in that case, this makes swapping between desktop and game mode really annoying. Overall the UI is the games worst problem, cards are stacked vertically instead of vertically unlike every single other deckbuilder so you have to mouse over them constantly, keywords are hidden in a glossary and even then not everything is explained you have to guess what keywords do as you can only check these things in between missions, if you encounter something while fighting, tough luck. Whenever you stop you have to go through each menu to figure out what you can actually do in each location, there are no visual indicators of what you can actually do, it feels more like navigating a terminal than choosing an option in a videogame. Everything in the game is just really unintuitive and hard to grasp, leading to constant friction and annoyance, I never felt like I was inching towards mastery, just figuring out the bizzare moon logic and what the game actually wants from me.…