I really liked the game, but I really didn't understand what I was supposed to do. I kept adding cards, but I couldn't figure out the next step. Ended up just power clicking. Also, noticed a slight bug where sorting my cards by value leads to x3 being rated higher than x4 or x6. Love the polish on this title - well done!
Thank you!
The goal is to get the highest score possible with a limited number of draws (which you see on the top left corner), it should explain this at the beginning in a little tutorial, maybe it didn't trigger for you. The next step, the key to do this, is upgrading the shop level (refreshing the shop), so that you can get to cards (and also abilities) that are much more complex (as it says in the in-game tooltip of the shop refresh function) and that synergize with other cards and abilities to create strategies that can lead you to some crazy high scores (like the ones other players posted in the game page's comment). After upgrading the shop to higher levels, you get more powerful cards that open up the door to more strategies and synergies, for example these cards and abilities:
Another key point is also to "expand" the board other than only expanding your deck, by adding card slots, which ensure you'll produce more points for each turn, because cards stay on the ground for longer and thus help you craft longer equations which in turn lead to more points for your final score.
As for the sorting by "value", I'm not quite sure what you mean, these are the available sorting types for cards in your deck:
Maybe you meant "type", in this case cards are first sorted by their type (first +N cards, then ×N, then for example [dice] cards, then [coin] cards, ecc...), and then by descending value (if the type is the same), so in your case it would be "×3", "×4", "×6".
By the way, thank you for playing, I'm happy you enjoyed the game!
Yeah, I kind of saw the tutorial, but didn't really understand it when I was in game. I saw the tooltips and those helped, but since I don't usually play this genre, I was just confused. I was trying to get a higher score, but just didn't understand how. That's okay though; that's on me.
As for the bug, when I sorted the cards by "Best", it went "x3, x4, x2, x1, +7, +6" etc. Not sure why the x3 card showed up first, but it also happened once I bought the x6 card so it was still "x3, x6, x4..." when sorted by Best. Hope that helps.
52 days ago(+1)
Oh ok got it, "best" sorts cards by the highest amount of points each card has ever produced for you in a single turn, hence the "best turn points" part. I should probably change the text of the tooltip to make it clearer, and in general I should definitely work on making the game more "beginner friendly" in this sense, thank you for letting me know!