Indies' Lies 12+

Wasn’t ready!

I was NOT ready for the fun I was delving into when I downloaded this. This game has your StS type game mode but also has a Story Adventure for each hero that adds more depth to the game. You have to unlock certain achievements for each hero to unlock the story. Once you finish the story, you unlock other cool things…not going to spoil it…that make for more fun runs later. The story is narrative and choice based! On top of that the talents you get every run are randomized so there is no short of potential here for some really awesome runs. You also get teammates in this game, unlike StS. If you’re a fan of Steamworld Quest and Slay the Spire, then here is your hybrid alien baby waiting for you to pick it up and play with it!
You will not be disappointed!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your support! Glad you're enjoying the game! We're inspired by Slay the Spire but we wanted to create a new deckbuilder experience with more depth and unique storylines!

Nice game, bad translation

Mechanically this is a nice deck builder with plenty of depth and content to keep it engaging. The art and polish are impressive and it has enough originality and distinction from other games in the genre to earn a spot on my tablet. But the translation to English is so unwieldy it gets in the way of the experience. The tooltips, card text, and lore references make it hard to know what’s going on, both due to grammar and word choice and also some flat out bizarre associations between one thing and another. For instance the Event nodes always come with some quote from the game world’s historical archives that seems completely out of context with the event it’s supposed to illuminate. I’m sure these references make perfect sense in the developer’s native culture, but that sense is utterly lost in translation. (What are all these “camps”?) This continual weirdness makes a well designed and beautifully produced game feel confusing and disjointed to play. Just one good localization pass could fix this completely if done by someone with the proper linguistic and cultural comprehension. I’d like to see that because this is a really nice game that deserves to succeed.

Excellent So Far

So far, I’m having fun. This game is a great example of how to take inspiration from excellent deckbuilders in the genre and improve/add new systems.

The game feels like a mix of the Vault of the Void map system, along with the Slay the Spire events. However, this is so much more than just a copy. They have a cool system that replaces the relic system of Slay the Spire with a semi-random talent pool that you unlock by challenging difficult enemies, which I really like.

It also has a cool partner system, where you gain a buddy after each act and they act as both an energy relic and a specialized mini-deck that is added into your deck.

Also, when you add cards into your deck, you can just replace cards in your deck instead of searching for removal. Really great mechanic that has allowed me to have fun with tiny decks, and it makes card removal events feel like an actual choice.

Ads only pop up before boss fights, and are tastefully scattered in shops and rewards to block the more powerful consumables.

Great stuff all around so far, I am definitely considering purchasing the full version to support the devs.