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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 11.4 hrs on record (9.7 hrs at review time)
Posted: 28 Jan, 2024 @ 11:36am

Early Access Review
Fun card game that riffs on Yu-Gi-Oh and Inscryption's style, but ultimately goes in its own direction. It takes a genre of competitive and serious card battling and adds Pictionary to the formula, flipping the whole thing on its head.

You can draw your own cards and give them names, description/lore and even add custom BGM for when they're played! The card creation system is clever in that it randomly deals you a lightly tweakable set of parameters for you to work with. Unlike other card games in the genre, battles are settled by comparing a multitude of various parameters between two cards to tally up a list of "advantages" each card has over the other.

The result being that you have to guess the parameters of the card your opponent put down on the field and see if your cards are able to defeat it. Even the strongest dragon can lose to the most dainty anime girl given the right circumstances.

All aspects of the game are geared towards having whimsical and short back-and-forths, so no insurmountable walls or ceaseless board locks here!

This results in a game that's fun to play with friends, especially if they enjoy drawing.

The built-in art tools are pretty good all things considered. You get 3 layers, a brush, paint bucket, eye dropper and eraser. They even offer undo/redo and opacity, which is more than I was expecting! It's enough to where I think it can serve as a good way of practising your drawing skills. The game gives you a prompt, and you try your best to come up with something dynamic without thinking too hard about the details. The incentive for this practice is to show off your new cards in your next battle with your buds.

My one gripe is the English translation, which is pretty good, but a bit lacking in some parts of the game. The wiki also remains untranslated, but thankfully the community comes in clutch for that.
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