Zoominoes

The gameplay loop is amazing, music's relaxing, and it definitely can get addictive, however, I cannot recommend the game in its current state. As more updates have occurred, the game has become progressively more broken. Played animals sometimes remain on the field between rounds and will actively block a space, despite not having been actually played; certain challenges are entirely broken to the point you have no animals in your deck and can't give up, resulting in a soft lock; there's incredible balancing issues with the deck size and starting animals resulting in certain animals being entirely useless. The devs are actively working on the game and trying to fix what they can, but with the overwhelming amount of issues currently and the fact that more keep popping up with each patch, I recommend staying away from this until it's in a more stable state.

I only have a small amount of hours in the game but I will slowly make my way toward 100% and have beaten most of the zookeepers on director difficulty. I think the negative aspects of the game stem from lack of strong animals early, combined with no discard function. In the opening week it is often more optimal to take removal or colour changes vs consistently picking animal cards. Taking removal in the early days can help win faster leading to more money to buy sodas, souvenirs, and snowcones in the first couple shops. If there was some reroll function or a way to have better options I think that would be helpful. Taking lots of animal cards early often punished you late when the score is much higher. This leads me to my next point which is discarding. I dont think I have ever played a deckbuilder that is more punishing than this game when it comes to trimming a deck. Before I started winning consistently on director I would often have 1-2 cards in my deck that are my win cons but couldnt draw them. One can make the argument that "play" cards are important and they are but I think giving players one reroll per week or per day could really alleviate some of that difficulty. With…

Pretty fun and charming. Now that i've beating the game on the hardest difficulty (Director) with all the zookeepers, i think i can give my thoughts on it. I can agree with many of the negative reviews, can occasionally bug out, for me the most common is sound being triggered on a weird delay, and some runs feel doomed from the get go (on director). This varies heavily based on the zookeepers themselves, some of which has abilities that help them scale fast or keep up in the early game, while others can struggle to make it through the first week. That said, there's a fun amount of variety in the amount of paths to victory and builds you can achieve. Though with the director difficulty spiking the last day's goal 10x some of the more flatpoint builds tend to not be able to get there. Like in Balatro, multipliers are king but raw numbers let you survive the early game. Hitting the single piece to skyrocket into the millions is always fun. One thing i do like is being able to see what the final event is from the start, letting you try and mold your strategy to not be hard-countered by the boss. If you're looking for another deckbuilding, pointscoring roguelike, Zoominoes is solid …

I love this game and I think it has a lot going for it including the art. When you go on a great run and see the numbers run up there is nothing like it. The only real con I have of the game is the later difficulties and scaling. I find it extremely hard to complete a run at that stage. If they make some adjustments it could be a goated game. I will still recommend as the pros outweigh that one con.

im obsessed with this game and i love the daily leaderboard but would love more chances to play against people online. i look forward to future expansions to the content in this game and would be happy to pay for them.

Shoots dopamine straight to my brain