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Overtuned map, average weapons, wait for balance pass.

30 hours in and having achieved a 3 win streak made me realize most of the negative reviews surrounding this game on release can really be attributed to "skill issue".

Wildfrost doesn't have a energy system, instead having a counter + 2 lane grid system for you to play with. Having attacks only happen every 3-4 turns leads to runs that require you to plan ahead possibly up to 10 turns in advance. This, combined with the ally reshuffling and (uncharged) bell redraw mechanics means that this game demands a different kind of strategy from other roguelite games.

You tend to die a lot in the early runs, and I think that's fine. I spent my first 10-15 hours understanding the mechanics and priority order for interactions. Once you've figured out how to exploit the battle system, along with the pool of possible allies/enemies you might face, every run doesn't feel as unwinnable as it once felt.

Perhaps there is validity in the argument of how polarizing each run can be due to the fact that there are less nodes to visit per run, but one thing I've noticed is that you don't really need to 'scale up' heavily to win. Rather, Wildfrost incentivizes having a jack-of-all-trades kind of deck (enabled by its lenient redraw system) for you to draw answers to pretty much every possible board state.

This game isn't like Slay the Spire or Monster Train and that's really refreshing. Wildfrost really plays more like Hearthstone's Freeze Mage in 2014 but without the Frost Novas, Blizzards and Fireballs. It definitely sure is tough, but the win conditions are always in sight (albeit slightly lacking in the final stretch) and the deck can always be improved throughout the run.

Of course it's a werewolf for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 5

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Nice.

Get weapon -> Whack monster -> Get better weapons -> Profit!