Well then, look who's back! Thought you'd escaped me the first time, huh? Well, I had time to spare and thus I did a longer playthrough! This time, I actually beat the game! This makes it the perfect time to come back here.

Since people mentioned UI stuff, I want to instead focus on the gameplay and presentation. I'm going to focus on the first one, since I think it matters more.

Before I get into it, I do want to note that the issue I brought up before about the card stack isn't fixed. Put some 200 items in your inventory and you should see what I mean. :P

To begin, how big of an area would you imagine this place is? Like, how far do you think the player is traveling? The reason why I ask is because the map itself isn't all that big. Like, if I look at the size of drawings and roads and try to extrapolate it into an actual walking area, I'd wager it'd only take a day to go the long way to the boat.

One thing I had been feeling when I played it is that the world should be "bigger" with time passing more slowly when you're not performing actions. This, in turn, would spread enemies and obstacles out. It'd also allow for a lot more options in terms of new paths. This brings me to the next issue: replayability. Right now, once I've beaten the game there's nothing for me to play again. It's not like the map changes or locations of hordes and enemies change. I think this is where things need to be worked on next, to make it fun to keep changing.

Next, there should be more info to explain to the player what the crafted items are for. I don't want to waste items on a campfire if I don't know how it'll benefit me. In a similar vein, a bit of explanation of how combat works (specifically what the numbers mean) would also be good.

One thing that I found infuriating while playing was the high chance for luring away to fail. I had a time where I attempted to lure four times and every one failed. Given the amount of energy and time this takes, it can be infuriating for it to fail. I'd say the failure rate should be lower, or that the cost to energy and time should be less so it's not putting the player on the backfoot so easily.

I loved the option for points where you can easily recover water. Thanks to these, I don't feel like the speed in which water drains is a problem. However, I do feel the speed for food is. Just thinking in general about how long a person can survive without food makes me feel this should be changed. Since the game is supposed to take 9 days, here's what I would recommend: making the food meter drop a little slower. When the meter empties, it begins to drain energy faster. This would feel more realistic to what the body is capable of. This would, in turn, allow the player to strategize when they eat. Similarly, all food should provide some energy no matter what.

And just for context to the above, I have personally gone 3 days without drinking anything, but I've gone a week without eating anything. When I had nothing to drink, it had a toll on my body. However, the most that happened when I wasn't eating was I felt more tired. This is why I suggest things the way I am.

I also think maintaining health should be a bigger deal. It wasn't until I began making huge use of sleep and rest that I noticed that doing either recovers HP. However, the amount gained felt way too big to me. I'd say make those gains much smaller, but in exchange make enemies a bit weaker. This would then allow for more strategy.

Finally, there should be a combat option if you run out of items. In fact, I would argue that the player should always have a non-card option for combat though with a drawback.

You have a VERY FUN game here. The strategy in the actions flow nicely.

The only turn off for me was the UI clutter and the card presentation. I'd prefer just seeing the map, centering the character, and hovering over icons and get drop down menus instead.

A few things I noticed that should be fixed:

• Sleeping or resting doesn't show what my penalty will be for hunger and thirst.
• The jetty drink action should just get me 100% thirst since there are no penalties or at least none that I saw, this way I'm not clicking unnecessarily. 

The graphics are very nice, going with "everything's a card" is a gameplay touch I like too.

It's pretty amusing fighting the zombie hordes with a "throw everything at them!" strategy, even if not exactly optimal running out of food.

A bit evil to make the player wait for the zombie to finish them off if they run out of cards, may be more mercyful to just make it an automatic game over.

Good game overall!

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.

On start up, I was a little shocked at the game's presentation. I went into the tutorial, but when the game seemed to be just up and going, with time ticking away, it immediately felt like I was told nothing at all. As such, I would recommend that when a tutorial dialogue box pops up, it should do so as a focal point and pause the game so the player can read.

Once I had gotten an idea of what I was doing, I restarted and tried again. I immediately realized the challenge of this game as both the items you find and the strength of zombies was completely random. I could have the first few fights go easy and I get a lot of strong items, or they could be a slog and I'm deprived of items and unable to continue. I'm all for a challenging experience, but it's felt incredibly painful to get anywhere without cheating for cards. Speaking of, if you have too many cards you end up covering the usable cards in the UI. Not really something that should happen in normal gameplay, but worth knowing.

I want to play more, but for me it's hard to dedicate the time when it's so heavily reliant on luck (That and I have a lot of games to cover). If you can make the game balance out so rounds with a lack of items = weaker enemies, it'd help to make things feel more achievable.

I really liked the presentation of the game, the graphics are great and it felt pretty intuitive to move around.  I did feel like the train wreck might need to be moved over to the left a bit, as it feels like I should be able to continue north here.

I'm not a huge card battler, and I may have been somewhat out of my league for the way combat worked here.  I didn't see much of a point in crafting things since they appeared to be one use items.  I did only craft the dagger/knife, so I'm not sure if that is accurate.

I found it odd that I couldn't perhaps use my fist/kick during combat, as getting into combat meant I would lose several items each time.  It didn't look like I could avoid combat, so it felt like it was inevitable that I'd lose everything no matter what.  

Overall I think it's a really cool concept, but personally find the short-lived nature of the items we find to be a bit too short.  It's hard to have motivation to push forward when I have to make a decision on eating or saving the food to use as an attack item, and water, etc.  

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A very, very enjoyable game for me. I've never been one for card games, and barely have played any Turn-Based games, outside of a select few games. So my enjoyment for this game, came out beyond expectation. It was engaging, tactical, and had you going. The game is brutal, and that is fine, it's meant to be that way, however some things do need to be tweaked in my opinion. Equipped weapons should be drawn first in combat, if it's equipped, it should be at the ready. RNG might have to be changed just a little, as sometimes, you can just get acorns or 2 rocks, one of which can create a far bigger impact than the other. Maybe other ways to get inside houses, as a whole axe swing to break down a door feels too much, considering some houses visually look like they have windows. Careers/Occupations for starting could be a way to further spice up the game, selecting a character giving different buffs/debuffs, starting gear, things of that nature. A journal would be great, every day the character can write down lore on the journey, something like the game 60 seconds, it would also be a great way to have recipes and crafting information written down so you don't need those items to have to check what to keep. Luring to the minigame is good, as it stands, it's a 50-50 and with someone with bad luck, it felt like it was pointless to even try to lure sometimes. Repairs are coming so that is nice. As for the character, giving them more background would be great. Or even just having the player have the options to give them background and a name would work as well, especially for those who wanna do some type of RP. Lore, and or story would be wonderful as well, while searching houses, you have the option to read something that may have been found during the search, giving lore as to what happened to the family, the world, such as the start of it all, all depending on the location you are getting this information from. All and all, a very solid game that look forward to seeing more from.