Like your take on the Slay the Spire gameplay mechanic. Was playing this game a lot, and enjoyed yours as well. The pixel art is really well done. And so are the transition states. All changes are nicely connected by visual and audio effects - I LOVE how well you did that. The environment art is also really cool. Over all the game leaves a  solid impression - the devs master their craft, that's for sure.

Some points you might want to  improve / have another look at:

• The art style is kind of inconsistent. This might be intentional,  might also be because of the games EA state. If it is the second, I hope you decide to go for the pixel art style. These parts look really cool and would give your game  a more unique identity in comparison to  its idol SLS
• The card texts are hard to read as they get covered by other cards. It looks like you could use some more horizontal space to spread them out a little more, this might already help. Additionally, the hovered card could always be presented on top of the other cards - not just being "lifted up".
• I would  expect an "End Turn" button always on the right edge of the screen -  just because this is the standard. Having it sitting on the left side feels kind of misplaced. At least in western countries where we read from left to right - might be different in asian culture.

Thanks for your entry. It's a great one all in all.

I return for another Infinidagger adventure!

So before I dive into new thoughts, I just want to note I found a bug. I'm not sure how much of what was going on needs to match, so I'll simply state that I killed the last element, a Rock Elemental, with the rock that the elemental gave me. I had performed no other attacks that turn, and it resulted in nothing responding. XD

I also want to note that most of this was from the same version of the game I played before. Part way through writing, I did realize I forgot to update and opted to play more with said version.

With this said, I can now get into some of my new observations.

So I know part of your intent is that you want players to discover things and be surprised by what happens. This was something you brought up when I noted just being thrown in and being confused as to what to do (which I still think, for the first screen, you should indicate what the player should do). While this is a good idea starting off, when I have multiple visits to different things, have no idea what they do and ultimately just feel like they're having a more negative effect, I'm just going to ignore them. Some examples...

- The Training Dummy. As far as I can observe, I just lose HP here. What is training supposed to do?
- The Pond, the Campfire, and other screens where you're asked to discard a card. Save for one lucky time where I got the cat and somehow got a good reward, these things always result in me losing cards and getting those cards you can't use. What I would suggest is an internal check where, once the player has encountered it, say, three times, it offers knowledge of what to do.

The next thing I wanted to bring up was the amount of monster blood early on. The amount of blood obtained from enemies even a few boards over is way higher despite them often being easier than they were in the start due to just having more cards and options for fighting. I'd like to suggest that in the first few boards, monster blood drops higher.

(Additional off tangent note. At this point, I began playing with the latest version of the game and had another bug such as above, again involving a rock elemental. This time, however, it froze following the enemy's turn).

The last thing I wanted to touch on was something I felt just... didn't make sense. So some enemies are able to apply wound and bleed effects which remain in your deck afterwards. I don't recall if they remove after a fight (and if not, they should). However, I also feel like if you block the damage of the attack entirely, those effects shouldn't be applied. I mean, if an enemy hits you four times but you block it all, how would it make sense that you now have four deep wounds? You blocked them. They didn't actually touch you. :P

TDLR:
My favourite game so far. It feels that when it will come out of its beta, it will be worthy of its inspiration (Slay the spire, that I will shorten to STS going on).

What I like:
-The gameplay in general. It is rock solid. The combo system and the enemy turn system are welcome addition to the STS-like genre.
-The art. Sceneries and enemies are cute, the cards give a fun STS beta art vibe.
-The musics who are better than the ones of STS
-The gameplay, again. Gameplay is king.

What this game need (in decreasing order of importance):
-More content (more characters, more animations, more enemies, more musics...)
-Better balancing. It was pretty easy for me to setup an infinite with delays. The relics that give 3 extra cards per turn for an increase in items cost (who aren't very good anyway since they take a slot in your deck) and the one who reduce the cost of all skills by one (it has a huge drawback, but if you handle it...) for example seem they can really break the game. On a smaller scale, the equipment who gives +10 strength and dexterity is also busted, because, you know, I can just play it, press end of turn and play a new turn with a new hand, full energy and +10 strength and dexterity without the enemies even acting once. The 5 hits cards seems a mandatory pick to counter the encounter with the evasive elite. Being able to burn without drawback 5 cards of your deck (or even with the drawback if you can setup an infinite heal) is also pretty strong. On the other hand, some interesting mechanics like the focus system or the cards that gives strength x2 for a turn or dexterity down for enemies seem underpowered. Also, encounters in hallways feel pretty unequal, the difference between a one enemy room and a three enemy room is huge. Curse cards also feel pretty nasty, as the ways to get rid of them are not 100% reliable.
-A save and quit system. During the run I give the final screenshot from, I really would have wanted to do a break midway, especially since I had no idea when it will end.
-Something feels weird when playing the cards in this game compared with STS. I can not really explain it rationally. It feels less snappy.
-An easy way in the deck screen to know how many cards you have for each combo value.
-A more in-depth tutorial
-May be a way to know the enemies' actions or at least their possible actions?
-More content
-Fixing some UI bugs I will post under when I find the relevant screenshots back.
-I forgot: more content

PS: By the way, I am a STS veteran, I reached ascension 10 and then took a break that still lasts today, as I was bored of always building the same deck.

Very good game with a great idea!! I like the roguelike style than the game have making everytime you die you have to start again and you have to think all well to go further and further

The gameplay was great, only than will be great to have different animations for different attacks to add a bit more of dynamic to the gameplay Also it will be great to have something like a highscore to know how further you went so the player wants to get more and more further and beat it own high score Also having a story mode or at least a more detailed story of what happened, who we are and why we are doing that will be great And finally, having an interactive tutorial will be really helpful instead than text written of how the game works, so players understand it easily

For the rest the game is looking great!! Good luck working on it and improving it more and more :D

Hello! Welcome to Feedback Quest 5! It's nice to meet you! My name's Hythrain. I'm part of the FQ team and a hobbystreamer. I'm writing this review live after having played your game.

Due to forgetting anything the page had said or shown when I booted the game up, I had absolutely no expectations going into this. I just had the name in my head. When there was a pretty world and title screen, I thought it might be a top down horror game with cute sprites.. Then I got into the game and it was an anime pixel art dude with no shirt and two doors! I had no idea what was going on. It took me a good moment to realize it was a roguelite, then again to realize it was card based, then AGAIN to realize it was a deckbuilder! Multiple levels of SHOCK!

While I did notice the difference between how the cards look to the battlefield, I still find the artwork great. I loved how the music went in and out for combat and both in and out of combat tracks are giant loops.

There are a few things I think should be changed, however...

1. The tutorial should not just teach you how to read the card, but what the player is supposed to do every step. Going back to when I started, I was confused what to do on the very first screen. I tried to use the tutorial and it told me nothing in terms of navigation and what the symbols on doors mean.

2. If a player uses all of the cards they held and can use (so cannot use cards don't interfere, nor cards still in the deck), it should automatically end the turn. If they run out of SP and only have SP cards, it should also automatically end. That way, it can keep a better flow.

3. I might just be dumb, but I had a lot of enemies dodging my attacks. Not sure if it was because of me not paying attention or just low accuracy luck on my part.

I really enjoyed it.  I put 30 minutes in, and there's certainly more content that I did not see.  It has a very satisfying card battler feel to it, something similar to Slay the Spire or Darkest Dungeon.

The highlight for me is certainly the pixel art, everything from the enemies to the background are crafted so well that it really makes it stand out.  It would be cool to see more animations from the various characters on screen.  The hero/main character doesn't really have much going on.  

I didn't quite catch on to how the cards stacked immediately, but once I did I was able to make use of it pretty well.  It would be nice if the cards popped up a bit more when we hovered over them so they don't have to be selected to read exactly what they do.  But, overall really fun experience.

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