Card Guardians: Deck Shop 9+

For anyone that enjoys a simple turn based rogue-like rpg this is the game for you. I really like the art style and I find it super satisfying opening card packs between battled and chests after quests. I can’t get and I can’t wait for more content!

Gameplay: Having the option between the knight and witch that have very different play styles is a cool and unique system. After every battle you open a card pack which makes each run different and forces more strategy to be involved depending on the cards you pick. After every battle you either pick which enemy you fight or if you wanna upgrade cards, full heal, duplicate cards, or get rid of cards. Each enemy has unique abilities or passives that effects the way you play into them making it challenging and unique. When outside of combat you can pull armor and weapons out of chests that effect your damage, defense, and health. Each piece of equipment has passives and can be upgraded that’ll help with every run. You’ll probably pull a bunch of duplicates but that’s fine because they have a merging system that ups the rarity of the armor improving the stats and passives.

If I could change anything I would let players edit the main deck with certain cards that way the experience feels like it’s a tied a little bit more to strategy than RNG, like building a “structure deck” that works with certain armor combinations

I’ve been looking through mobile games for a while now trying to find the perfect balance of simple/non-time consuming, fun, and challenging when I stumbled on this. It hits all 3 categories, is not pay to win, and is just a really fun and fairly quick RPG turn based/deck builder. Always been a fan of MTG and hearthstone but don’t have the time or energy to play them well, and this has a base deck built around each hero that you build up each adventure (10 fights). The ads are reasonable and it’s not pay to win (you can invest to power up quicker but you can definitely succeed without it). i decided to just pay for the ad-free. It makes it a lot quicker and the price is more than fair. I also really appreciate that when you get higher quality items you can recycle the same item type that you’ve already upgraded and get everything you put into it back! No need to hold back on upgrades. All in all just a great game if you like this kind of thing!

After now 5+ weeks of grinding I edit my previous review from 2 to 4 stars. I still have plenty of fun with this game & would still say it's the most addicting mobile game I played so far. Just be informed that the difficulty spike rises extremely fast & high up, battles don't give much gold or rewards, so you have to grind a lot. Like really a LOT. And it's much RNG which cards you will get to improve your deck that might help you defeating your enemies or more prevent that (most of the time skipping new cards is the best option to go with).
I would like if one would be able to sell the equipment. If you grind as much as one needs, you mostly do that for gold which you then need to upgrade your equipment. However you most likely will also receive eq that is completely useless and that fills up your storage for no further use at all. So being able to sell those would be a great improvement for your game, to get a bit of extra gold & thus battles would feel more rewarding. Eg. after world 3 you unlock a new mode with which you can make previous world's harder for better chances for equipment drop. However as the previous worlds only drop eq you don't need anymore, this mode is pretty useless as you can just grind in the last world you completed, get the same eq you want to raise it stars & move on to the next world. Overall still a v good game with its flaws. Really looking forward to future updates!