The Curse Of Mantras
Winter Wolves · 2022 · Strategy, Card Game, Card Battler, LGBTQ+, Turn-Based Strategy
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Mostly Positive71% · 14
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About The Curse Of Mantras
The Curse Of Mantras is a dating sim with optional card battler gameplay.
You play as either Lily or Ace, and you wake up in a strange supernatural world known as the Afterlife. A strange man, Mantras, greets you and introduces you to the world's rules and your companions.
Your companions are other dead people that represent an avatar of one of the four elements: water, fire, air, earth, and one of the two arcana: life and death.
Lily and Ace are the avatars of death. The most powerful avatar, the only one who has the power to activate a strange device, a music box, which can make them remember their past lives, and most importantly, why and how the died.
Each companion has an alignment: Order or Chaos. Lily or Ace (depending who you play as) will choose between one of the two alignments and form a team that will fight the opposite team until all the battles have been won and the memories have been remembered.
Even if this is the Afterlife and everyone is dead, there's love to be found in this place. Each companion except the opposite avatar of death can be romanced, for a total of 10 love interests, each one with at least 2 romance CG scenes!
The Curse Of Mantras offers an optional but detailed card collecting game, featuring over 120 cards: 72 unique creatures and 60 different spells, divided based on element/arcana and alignment.
You play as either Lily or Ace, and you wake up in a strange supernatural world known as the Afterlife. A strange man, Mantras, greets you and introduces you to the world's rules and your companions.
Your companions are other dead people that represent an avatar of one of the four elements: water, fire, air, earth, and one of the two arcana: life and death.
Lily and Ace are the avatars of death. The most powerful avatar, the only one who has the power to activate a strange device, a music box, which can make them remember their past lives, and most importantly, why and how the died.
Each companion has an alignment: Order or Chaos. Lily or Ace (depending who you play as) will choose between one of the two alignments and form a team that will fight the opposite team until all the battles have been won and the memories have been remembered.
Even if this is the Afterlife and everyone is dead, there's love to be found in this place. Each companion except the opposite avatar of death can be romanced, for a total of 10 love interests, each one with at least 2 romance CG scenes!
The Curse Of Mantras offers an optional but detailed card collecting game, featuring over 120 cards: 72 unique creatures and 60 different spells, divided based on element/arcana and alignment.
What Steam players say
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I really missed Orions 2 the moment it wasn't playable anymore, The moment I saw this game I knew it would be somewhat similar and I must say that this way of making a card battler is simply amazing! It might seem really challenging at first but you'll need to stop and rethink your strategy. The core is really good, and I would love to see a multiplayer version of this gameplay one day, doesn't really have to be a serious thing just something to play with sum friends and stuff like that. Amazing job making a rather simple yet deep card system! Aquaria best grill~3 found this helpful
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A nice card game with a creative story.1 found this helpful
There are some good things in this game. Graphics are gorgeous, a lot of romance options, two protagonists with 3 different appearance variations, card game can get pretty fun and the concept for the story is pretty interesting. But unfortunately, there are too many not-so-good things for me to recommend this game. The stories (both main plot and character's arcs) are hollow and rushed with unsatisfying conclusion; the characters are shallow and also boring/annoying; the card game can get very tedious; you have to see every character's story to reach the ending, which means MC flirts with everyone (no choice about that) - even the characters you don't like; the romance is more like a small fling in the end - don't expect tension or natural progression, they meet up several times and then they smash (and the smut is short, cringy and pretty badly written). And the price is way too high for this quality. So, no, I don't recommend this game. Unless it's on a 50+% sale and you really want to hunt down some smutty (and again - really pretty) CGs.
The music is great so far!
Enjoying the world building. The characters are diverse and fun. You can make choices which affect who you can romance in the end (chaos or order). Overall I recommend it to fans of Visual Novels and good card games!
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