Absolutely adore the artwork and happy to see someone else also going for a theatre theming! :)

A card-based auto-runner is a fun idea! I think the edges would benefit from some polishing, though.

First, the UI isn’t great. Stat bars are sort of hard to see and you always have to keep track of what symbol corresponds to what stat. The numbers on the cards were covered by cards to their right. In a turn-based card game, stuff like that would already be not ideal, but in an action-based card game, this is a major annoyance.

Second, balancing seems pretty off right now. Cards seem to have way too many negative effects. Since there’s no other way to get rid of bad cards, they just sort of clog up hand space until I can’t see the new cards anymore. In the end, I tried to just play a run where I did nothing at all and ended with twice the score that I usually got when I actively tried to play well.

In spite of all of these criticisms, I do think the core gameplay works, though! UI needs some work, but can definitely be fixed, and having some better cards and a way to discard / exchange cards would make it a lot more fun to actually play them.

Some more ideas you could try to implement in the long term:

• Have two types of cards: Scenes and Actions. Actions work like cards currently do by giving a one-time boost, while scenes would give a small but continous boost while they are active.

• Change card draw up a bit. Just playing cards whenever you draw them is not super interesting. Maybe always draw a full hand, then only get a redraw when a certain condition is met. Not exactly sure how to implement that yet, but I’m sort of thinking of something like Wildfrost’s bell counter.

I’d love to see you keep working on this!