As We Descend

汉化不全，随机性有点强，特别是选兵的时候，难度我感觉还好，主要是汉化不全！

I just beat Descend 20, so I feel obligated to write an honest review this game. I really enjoy the game and I feel like it has huge potential to become great. I love the difficulty scaling and how it's implemented; each modifier makes sense and really mixes up how you play. Especially the one who gives wounds to troups when first drafting them - it forces you to try out new troups without restricting you. It's a good balance of limitation and freedom. I really love the resource management and different npcs you can interact with. The combat itself feels really great especially "votive" has been really fun for me. Tbh "guilt" hasn't really lit a fire in me because the whole "matching flow" and "maximum flow" feels a bit to situational but I'm eager to try out a lot of builds in the future. I'm looking forward to new updates and the sacrosanct. Much love to the developers, you can feel the love they put in <3

Plays great - grabbed me for 8 hours the first day. The graphics, sound, general feel of it are all fantastic -- if you like the genre, you won't be disappointed. Some highlights that differentiate this game from others: - The ability to stagger enemies to cancel their turns and gain the ability to target weak points means you can incapacitate foes without simply focus firing 1 enemy until they die. - Enemies will move between front and back row, and melee types can't hit the back row so long as enemies exist in the front row. - Your characters can also change rows, but all cards are usable from everywhere, which feels great. Some cards have bonus effects when the user is in the matching row. - With the starting faction, there's a mitigation of randomness mechanic through using a resource (rune) that always allows you to discard 1 card to draw 1 card. Different abilities grant and consume rune for other effects as well, and some characters and artifacts trigger when discarding certain cards. - Interesting mechanics introduced as one increases the difficulty through the Descension system :) ... There's much more: unlockable units, unlockable alternate loadouts, multiple types of card improvement... It's a wonderful set of interlocking pieces that just sings.

Worth. Buy this game, you won't regret it. Easily the best rougelike to come out in some time. The balance is great with some pivotal battles coming down to one critical decision. I have reached the last boss on the hardest difficulty and lost by 2 hit points and had fun the entire way. If you are sitting on the fence on this one then get off and start playing.

I'm editing my review to positive, because the devs clearly care and they have some very cool concepts here. I'm a big fan of the genre and I like that this cardbuilder / rogueliker incorporates some city building and a spatial dimension to the battles. The main drawback for me was that I beat the game on the first go (which is a bit disappointing) - but with the additional ascension levels, the game should provide plenty of entertainment for 20-30 hours.

Interesting roguelike deckbuilder with tactical combat. Improve your units and cards between battles in the city (where places you can use those cards are clearly marked), then engage in combat with two rows to position units. Some units will auto attack from either the front or the back, while the enemy does the same. Good mix of cards to choose from as well. The general strategy is to stun the enemy so they can't attack. I also like the setting, but a conspiracy theory: is this a future version of the same descending city from Ball x Pit?? Works great on the Deck!

[h2]Interesting ideas, but too much waiting for the game to become interesting[/h2] I spent almost 6 hours with As We Descend (dunno why registered only 4). There is a lot here that I genuinely like: the visual style and setting are excellent, the city is beautiful and interesting to explore, and the two-line combat system creates some nice positioning decisions. Being able to identify and target enemy weak points is also a great idea, and turning new unit abilities into cards creates some interesting tactical interactions. Unfortunately, I don't want to spend more time figuring out the game. [b]What I like[/b]: [list] [*]Excellent visual style and a setting that makes me curious about the world. [*]The city is beautiful and can be rotated and explored, somewhat reminiscent of Heroes V. [*]The two-line combat system makes positioning meaningful and changes how attacks are distributed. [*]Enemy weak points can be identified and targeted, sometimes disabling their abilities or dealing increased damage. [*]Unit abilities being represented by cards creates interesting possibilities for synergies and tactical decisions. [*]The graphics and unit models look great, although my laptop runs noticeably hotter than it does with Olden Era. [/list] [b]What does not work for me[/b]: [list] [*]The progression is too stretched out. The game keeps you in a very limited state for too long, and I have to play and lose repeatedly before I can properly experiment with the systems. Early losses can feel like they are caused by missing tools rather than bad decisions. For example, if the enemy targets the Lantern and I simply don't have a Stagger card available, there may be very little I can do about it. [*]The game gradually unlocks the chance for new cards to appear, but the cards are still random during drafting. You can unlock a new unit, discover that its cards have poor synergy with another unit, and then have to visit an NPC in the city to modify its card pool. This makes experimentation unnecessarily slow. [*]There is a lot of repetitive busywork. Before every battle I have to select each unit, drag it to an available position and press Deploy. Sometimes I deliberately want to deploy fewer units, but there is no convenient "deploy all" option. The city also contains many small interactions and animations that take time without adding much decision-making. [*]A lot of progression consists of repetitive tasks such as spending a special resource, moving units between zones many times, or having a unit absorb large amounts of damage. These systems may become more interesting later, but at the moment they feel like artificial progression rather than meaningful gameplay. [*]The game does not provide enough information about its NPCs and interactions. Before unlocking a new district, I often don't know what the NPC actually does or what benefit it provides. NPC abilities are represented visually, but their functions are not always clearly communicated. Some icons overlap, and city interaction cards can obscure NPC tooltips. [*]The limited interaction resources make mistakes particularly punishing. In one run, I had a boss fight immediately after a regular battle, with no opportunity to return to the city. After losing units in the previous fight, I had no realistic way to recover before the boss. [*]The early boss fights can feel excessively restrictive. I had only two units available while the battlefield provided three deployment slots, and there was no apparent way to obtain another unit. The boss could also fill my deck with parasite cards while my ability to recycle them was limited. With only a small number of units and limited card-drawing options, the fight became more frustrating than strategic. [*]Some negative effects are not clearly communicated through icons and require hovering over them to understand what is happening. [*]There are also situations where the game seems to expect the player to know its systems before giving them enough tools to interact with them effectively. [/list] The game has a lot of potential, and I am sure it becomes much more interesting as more systems and options are unlocked. But this is exactly the problem for me: my time as a player is valuable, and I want to have meaningful tools to work with relatively early. I don't mind losing. I don't mind difficult games. What I don't enjoy is repeatedly playing with a heavily restricted set of options while slowly unlocking the ability to actually play with the systems I find interesting. The game is not expensive, and I don't regret buying it. But after almost six hours, I don't want to spend any more time getting to the part where it might become great.

人有上限，单位用了还加疲劳，设定很烂 你不干，我多招几个人不就完了， 什么diao设定