Recent reviews by Sleepy

It's a good game!

This game is way more fun that I expected it to be. Its a unique deck-building game with some innovative systems layered on and some FTL-like randomization and thematics. I highly recommend it to any fans of deck-building style games.

The game is played like a cooperative team card game, where you must tailor the deck of 1 of 4 unique characters in order to complete various goals and eventually win the game. You can play it completely single-player (controlling all 4 characters on your own) or play online multiplayer where you control only 1 role and make the decisions for only that character's deck. The various added systems and other elements keep it interesting and are actually very fun to engage with.

Rarely do I post reviews on Steam, but this game just gave me such a unique and fun experience that I felt compelled to share my positive feedback. I wish there were more creative strategy games like this being developed. 2 thumbs up from me!

EDIT: I've noticed many other reviews for this game that claim the game's balance is out-of-whack and that the gameplay is simply too hard (or even impossible.) I'd like to comment on those feelings from my personal perspective.

My only criticism of the game's difficulty is that there does not feel like much of a difference between the easiest and hardest settings. On the hardest setting, your ship's starting stats are worse, researching new cards costs more, and the ingredients become harder to track down... however, everything else is seemingly the same. The random aspects of the game are identical on all modes. This means that once you overcome a bit of discomfort at the start, and get your decks properly tuned, the overall difficulty feels very much the same. I could see some adjustments being made so that the easiest setting had more 'postive' random events each turn (or on discovery of a new planet) and the harder settings more negative outcomes, but it's a pretty minor gripe for an otherwise excellent game.

As far as the game being 'impossible' to beat -- I have played through the game 3 times thus far, once on each difficulty setting, and I have not yet even come close to losing my ship. I think that success or failure will often come down to whether or not you really understand the game's core mechanics (or the general principles and strategies of deck-building games).

Since not everyone is as familiar with the genre, I'll try to share some important tips here: First, it is important to have a goal in mind when you are buying new cards. Don't just add a card to a deck because it sounds cool, think about how it will affect the other cards you already have in that deck and what you want to accomplish with that character/role. Second, you should constantly be destroying the weakest cards in each deck whenever possible, so that each turn you draw as powerful a hand as possible. The game will force you to add new cards each turn, so try to utilize card destruction effects to keep your deck as small and focused as possible. Lastly, you want to be exploring a new planet on every turn, so that you can restock the available cards in the shop. Because the Captain role goes first, they can easily buy up the best available cards, allowing them to continously travel to new planets without much issue.

That's all I can say about that. Once you understand the strategy and the systems, getting the most out of all your cards is actually a lot of fun. :)

This game is just amazing. There are so many unique and interesting elements to it, it has a fantastic intro, great story telling, cool customization and strategy, difficulty that ramps up at an appropriate rate... I just can't say how amazed i've been at nearly turn. It's rare to get this kind of quality and fun from a game at such a low price. If you haven't had the chance to play this yet, you really, really should. Don't bother watching videos and trailers, just play it and thank me later.

This game is fantastic. It's got just the right mix of puzzle solving, RPG party building, exploration, and combat. It's a fun game to play in short sessions, but even better when you've got a few hours to really work your way through a dungeon or landscape area.

If you were a fan of the first game, don't hesitate to pick this up. It's an improvement to what was already a great game series.