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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay - How fun is it to play? | #7 | 4.051 | 4.051 |
| Graphics - Is the game aesthetically pleasing? | #67 | 3.692 | 3.692 |
| Completeness - Is it an unfinished tech-demo, prototype or a complete game? | #71 | 3.487 | 3.487 |
| Overall | #73 | 3.297 | 3.297 |
| Audio - Does the game have nice sfx and music? | #92 | 3.205 | 3.205 |
| Theme - How well does it incorporate the theme? | #143 | 2.051 | 2.051 |
Ranked from 39 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Unfortunate with the bug in the Jam version but I really liked the other stuff that I could get to in the post-Jam version, especially the final boss. Usually, I don't like card-based battle systems but this one had a really nice balance to it that made it fun.
Also, that ending text went on for a long time but I still liked it. I like a good epilogue.
Cool battle system, nice and balanced deck-builder and it was fun to play (:
Cool but really hard game. On my first run I wasn't even able to defeat the first enemy, but once I understood what everything did it was more enjoyable. Nice visuals and SFX, creates a nice spooky ambience.
Nice visuals, I liked the deck-building aspect. Got stuck in the card screen at one point but it was early on and didn't happen again after a restart so not too big a bug. Great entry!
Building a deck is quite fun, so I thoroughly enjoyed this one. I don't I ever completely understood how damage/poison works, but it didn't matter ultimately. I just threw everything with a big number on the enemy. :D
The graphics and presentation is pretty nice. I liked that there is even a story with an intro, this is very nice to have. It took me a couple of tries to defeat the golden knight, but once I had a good run and prepared the right cards everything went smoothly. The game ends rather abruptly, but apart from that it feels very polished.
It was a great experience playing this game. :)
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
With this i have a lot of fun. I love deckbuilders, so the fight system was great for for me. Great entry, well done! Also the animations of enemies were very interesting, how did you manage to fuse 2d and 3d together to make that? It kind of remind me of Joel Haver animations <3
thank you I have a good shader called propixelizer
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
Really solid deckbuilding hook with the poison/stall and cleanse mechanics and everything! As others have noted I got stuck after the Templar, but I can really see the potential there, especially being tantalized by an increase to cauldron size after the boss.
Pleasantly surprised by the fluid enemy animations. Cool boss music too.
Not sure where the theme comes in? Poison vs Healing? But there’s Weaken too, does that make it a triality?
Turn speed feels slow, relative to move speed.
I’m not exactly rating games on typography but that font choice is real bad, lol.
Good combat system! And looks great! But I lacked the theme and the dungeon itself. I wish there was more dungeon exploration. Your work impressed for 7 days!
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
I really enjoyed the combat since I play Slay the Spire and I see a lot of influence from it which I also took into my own game. It seems like the dungeon is randomly generated which is quite nice.
The only problem for me is that the WebGL build runs so horribly that fps turns into spf. If you could release a Windows build, I would play this when I am mad at my Silent run from Spire.
I apologize for any performance you ran into with the web gl version. Now that I have a chance to upload edits I've created a windows build. You can try that and not only should it run better, but there was a glitch in the original preventing access to 75% of the game. Give it a shot!
I beat the templar, the game was very fun. Movement is just a little bit weird (it's alright) but the presentation is dynamic (I like the animation of the cauldron) and the combat and deck building are super cool.
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
Thanks for the heads-up, I just played the new version to completion and it was cool.
I really enjoyed this. I don't play many deck-building games, but I got stuck in to this one! A shame it froze just as I was going to get my wish of a larger cauldron :( Only things I'd want are more variation to the dungeon/walls, to make navigation easier, and side-stepping instead of just turning. Also, I didn't really get a strong connection to the theme. Great job, though!
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
this is a nice game! loved it. Congrats!