Before I write my review I want to state my qualifications here:

I've played 14 different deck builder / card collector style games in the last year. Some of them for hundreds of hours all of them for at least a dozen plus hours. I state this because I want to let you reading this know that I understand the mechanics of these style games, and I'm not simply being salty.

This game is horribly out of balance.

I played four games and the best I did was about 5 or 6 fights under my belt before you get crushed. In the last game I played my hero trounced the first fight, then got to the second. Three enemies, two of which hit for 20 damage per, the other which hits for less but poisons. I can play defend cards to block 15 damage (but not poison) but each card costs 1 mana and I only have 3 mana. Are you seeing the problem? Even if I did nothing but play defends in a round I'd block 45 damage, take 40 from the two orcs, 10 from the mushroom, and get poisoned, net result; do no damage to them and take 5+ poison damage to me. Or, alternatively I can try to DPS burst them down. This was the choice I went with, got two down before I went from full life to dead over a few rounds.

This was the SECOND fight.

The fact that you have to unlock heroes AFTER rescuing them randomly is a little frustrating. As well you get to 'randomly' choose an artifact chest, but you don't actually get a choice, it's just random. You click on a chest and you randomly get an artifact, while showing you what you could have gotten. Why? Why not give the player a choice of three artifacts and let them pick? It's senseless.

Also the cost of cards in the shop is a bit too high in my opinion and the various crystals, gold, and blue (?) coins are never explained, leaving you to wonder what they are, how much you need, and what you do with them. That exploration isn't bad in it's own right, but is frustrating when paired with the TERRIBLE game balance.

I would not recommend this game. There are so many other, better, deck builders out there like Slay the Spire, Neoverse, The Last Hex, or if you want an RPG style game with this feel, check out Deck of Ashes.

I'll give this one another look if the devs seriously re-tune it. But otherwise into the junk bin it goes.

Before I write my review I want to state my qualifications here: I've played 14 different deck builder / card collector style games in the last year. Some of them for hundreds of hours all of them for at least a dozen plus hours. I state this because I want to let you reading this know that I understand the mechanics of these style games, and I'm not simply being salty. [b]This game is horribly out of balance. [/b] I played four games and the best I did was about 5 or 6 fights under my belt before you get crushed. In the last game I played my hero trounced the first fight, then got to the second. Three enemies, two of which hit for 20 damage per, the other which hits for less but poisons. I can play defend cards to block 15 damage (but not poison) but each card costs 1 mana and I only have 3 mana. Are you seeing the problem? Even if I did nothing but play defends in a round I'd block 45 damage, take 40 from the two orcs, 10 from the mushroom, and get poisoned, net result; do no damage to them and take 5+ poison damage to me. Or, alternatively I can try to DPS burst them down. This was the choice I went with, got two down before I went from full life to dead over a few rounds. This was the SECOND fight. The fact that you have to unlock heroes AFTER rescuing them randomly is a little frustrating. As well you get to 'randomly' choose an artifact chest, but you don't actually get a choice, it's just random. You click on a chest and you randomly get an artifact, while showing you what you could have gotten. Why? Why not give the player a choice of three artifacts and let them pick? It's senseless. Also the cost of cards in the shop is a bit too high in my opinion and the various crystals, gold, and blue (?) coins are never explained, leaving you to wonder what they are, how much you need, and what you do with them. That exploration isn't bad in it's own right, but is frustrating when paired with the TERRIBLE game balance. I would not recommend this game. There are so many other, better, deck builders out there like Slay the Spire, Neoverse, The Last Hex, or if you want an RPG style game with this feel, check out Deck of Ashes. I'll give this one another look if the devs seriously re-tune it. But otherwise into the junk bin it goes.