There are alot of problems with this game. I have a passing familiarity with Elder Signs...but everything about this game is opaque. Every minor mission on EASY seems impossible. The player can't even employ any strategy. You just 'pick a thing' and the mission pops up and it's revealed it's either 'right' or 'wrong' for the character. How is there strategy in that? The player is just randomly boned?

Even IF you get a good pairing...the mission is impossible. I believe the player gets 6 or 7 signs depending on the character in the first round. Aside from Scrolls, there are no 'multi' signs on EASY...yet the mission will have THREE requisites: Triple Skull, Triple Tentacle, 7 mags. If you have played the game, you will know, there are enough 'signs' that getting a 3 out of 6/7 in round 1 is a long shot...if you are successful you can look forward to trying to roll a 3 of 4 in round Three. STRATEGY!

You lose a sign every turn/reroll. So if you didn't get any of those 1/10000 odds on your first roll, you are immediately screwed...not to mention getting 3 out of 4, or 3 out of 3 duplicates in the 3rd turn is essentially impossible and entirely luck. You have to beat these odds THREE times successively!

There is basically no gameplay to the 'game'.

People explain you have to min/max your team at the start and hope for best rolls. So you have to know how everything in the game works, to min/max the first couple rounds, in the hope that you randomly draw something playable in the open...to actually play.

Brilliant.

I think there is a good game here, but nobody took the time to really examine the balance, explain the mechanics, or give the player enough ability to control what is happening. You basically stumble around blindly into scenario's that are probably ill fit for the character in that turn. Where is the strategy? What does it matter if I know what abilities my character has, if the draw and req's are all random anyway and I can't see the scenario before I pick it?! Why even give me the option to pick anything?!

Someone asked if this was a 'troll game' and I have to confess I think it is.

Edit: The only thing I can think of, is there is a bug in the RNG related to the framerate (144hz no vsync). The random reqs are impossible on EASY. They are always maxed with 3 reqs, and those reqs are always maxed: 3 skulls, 3 scrolls, 8 mags or some such. That's impossible in 6 turns with n-1 draw over 6-turns. That's THREE turns and impossible odds! I'm going to lock framerate to 30fps and force vsync and return. It's just unimaginable that the dev's released a game where every scenario was impossible...