This game is a lot of fun but i wish you could customize starting load outs. The farther into the torment levels you get the harder enemies will hit and you will have a very hard time staying alive. The fact that each victory grants 3 random cards ... from 70!! makes building a strong mid and late game deck really just luck. Not being able to start a base deck and build off that means you will simply play rounds and hope the cards you get will combine well together. Most often they don't and you will get crushed. This is, imo, the biggest weakness. There are some solid decks you can build but from the beginning the only thing that determines if you can build a certain deck is dumb luck. Card wins don't really compliment each other in a deck of +70 cards chosen at random. A customizable starting load out would change the approach of each game cycle completely. This is a solid game and i have a lot off fun with it. Load outs can become totally epic and you crush all in your path if you play smart. Unfortunately that happens like 1/10 times.

The map and encounters structure is essentially the same as Slay the Spire — aside from some name and artwork changes, a lot of the progression feels nearly identical. The character classes are a different experience, so there's still something here for you if you're a StS fan. It was easy to work through the increasing difficulty levels to unlock the other classes past the first one, so if you're contemplating purchasing anything in-app, the only stuff you really need to consider clearing out are the ads. Once you've unlocked the final card on the third class (around level 15 or 16 on the Paladin, which I got to without doing any card upgrades on that class because holy crow the damage bursting you can do there), you're pretty much done with the game, and it starts to get repetitive. I deleted it at that point because I'd seen all there was to see.

Super fun and intuitive, great game if you are looking for something fun and casual that doesn’t demand all of your time and attention. My only qualm is that currently the ads that run when you open chests do not have an option to close them, even if they play all the way through. I can’t progress past the chest right now because the ads don’t have a close option. Can’t tap anything or change the view, just have to close the app and try again and hope the ad actually has a close option next time. Pretty annoying, hopefully they can fix it so I can play some more.

If you’ve even looked in the general direction of Slay the Spire and then played this game, you can tell this is just a reskinned version, on the phone. The app is very bad at explaining what types of cards there are, debuffs and buffs, and general game knowledge so players must figure it out for themselves. Another gripe that I have is that there are many effects which *seem* similar to Slay the Spire-like effects, however many of these are a far less thought out effect. One in particular that comes to mind is a variety of monster (I believe it is referred to as a red ogre?) that appears in a boss fight (read: slaver fight). The enemy reduces your maximum strength permanently about every third turn. This is a permanent debuff which can cause you to just stall. Clearly this is just a poor rip of Slay the Spire. The only reason it gets a star over 1 is because the app isn’t visually bad, or buggy, just poor in game quality.