Simple and awesome deckbuilder! Good artwork and funny sounds! The game is quite difficult in the beginning, because of the combinations that seem incomprehensible at first. But after a few tries I managed to figure out how it works.
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Sound Design | #63 | 3.550 | 3.550 |
Enjoyment (Best Game) | #68 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
Aesthetics | #198 | 3.300 | 3.300 |
Horror | #290 | 2.100 | 2.100 |
Story | #294 | 1.950 | 1.950 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I wasn't really sure what I was doing but the art and sound were like amazing. Definitely felt scared the more cards I played since the sound was keeping me on edge--I defeated the first enemy though I'm not sure how, and lost to the second, but the art for these enemies is brilliant especially the art for the cards too. Overall a good game!
I wasn't really sure what I was doing but the art and sound were like amazing. Definitely felt scared the more cards I played since the sound was keeping me on edge--I defeated the first enemy though I'm not sure how, and lost to the second, but the art for these enemies is brilliant especially the art for the cards too. Overall a good game!
This game does something very right! the sinister vibez, the epic B movie voice acting and the simple art brings it together nicely. I think the whole card combining and burning mechanic is very clever, it is also very unforgiving (which is a plus). Can't believe you pulled this in a week, that is crazy! Good job everyone, one of the favourites from this jam :)
Incredibly fun core game loop here! It does take a while to understand the game and attack vs keep deck alive mechanics, but once you do, it turns into an interesting gameplay that you have to think quite a bit. It's a challenging game!
I feel like everything you have in your game I could have blended into mine, as it also have cards haha
Really nice job!
In terms of improvements, I think that during the game play it took me a while to understand what each card did, so visual tips on mouse over would be nice. I found it clever that the "attack" is the total of points, it's almost like you mixed blackjack and tarot here!
Congrats on your game!
While definitely not beginner friendly, at least slug has only 2 health so you can restart after figuring out how to do some stuff. Interesting card combo idea and also the announcer is pretty funny.
Wow, loads of depth in here and it's amazing how many effects you were able to design and implement over a jam! The two card combo to trigger effects is pretty genius for a jam game. Makes me think what could happen if you were able to unlock a third slot and other ways to manipulate the numbers...
This was hard but I really enjoyed figuring out how the rules worked and retrying it over and over until I won! The goofy voice over made me crack up. Having way too many hours under my belt at slay the spire and inscryption, I'm always excited about card game themed video games.
I hope you do more, with more ennemies and different mechanics... Maybe something that would allow the player to generate more cards, because they seemed to run out fast! Either way, I really had fun.
I have no idea how I won, I was just placing random cards. The rules of this game seemed confusing but I really dug the sound design and art
Oh no, my only weakness: Rogue-like deck builders. Now with my tarot card themes, you can't do this to me.
Ok, jokes aside, I really really enjoyed this game. Like despite some control jank and beginning difficulties I got really into it, played again and again, and now I just wish to see more of it. Not even necessarily like "more content", but some quality-of-life changes to hone the gameplay and make it more readable. Using players cards as health is a good concept, hard to balance but good risk-reward system, and I'm not sure if I can explain it, but using the Arcana's like this gives that deck builder feel, or "How do I play my cards right", literally. Also the announcer was fun, music good. Great work on this.
On a side note, not sure if it was intentional or a bug, but I got the evil eye down to 2 health, used 2 Deaths in a row, it didn't take any damage, when it became it's turn it burned like 6 cards from me :| After this even if using Lovers I could not kill it. Shame, I had such a good run going.
Nice entry on the card games, the mechanics of merging cards to cast spells is cool, nice sound effects too :)
I not sure about the mechanic of burning cards as the main enemy attack, I find it really frustrating and hard, I ended up drawing my whole deck and spaming the Justice card ahah
Nice entry on the card games, the mechanics of merging cards to cast spells is cool, nice sound effects too :)
I not sure about the mechanic of burning cards as the main enemy attack, I find it really frustrating and hard, I ended up drawing my whole deck and spaming the Justice card ahah
Tried couple of times but never beat the third enemy. I rarely have card that dealt damage. or maybe i just play it wrong. Very cool game, however. Good work!
My friends would disagree but I definitely love the graphics. My favorite so far.
In terms of gameplay, you could have added more interactions, like 'combos' with the card pairs, which would have made the game mechanics more engaging.
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