Deck of Souls

It's a cool game, similar to Slay the Spire and others roguelike deckbuilders, but it feels incomplete. Since the release in 2024, they didn't update the game. It's a shame it has lots of bugs.

Overall a fun and fairly easy roguelike. You can make fun game breaking builds. But there is way too many bugs. [list] [*][b]Set items[/b]: you can't see what the set bonuses are until you equip multiple pieces of that set and some sets seem to have no bonuses for some reason. (timeless set/champion set) [*][b]Equipment[/b] does not have a symbol to show which slot it goes in, usually pretty self explanatory but then you have a necklace that goes in the weapon slot instead of accessory slot. [*][b]Cards[/b] do not work properly. Example: rush cards that randomly targets enemies will sometimes target a dead enemy and do nothing, same goes for certain damage powers that targets a single enemy at random. Some momentum cards are also bugged. [*]There's [b]class cards[/b] but each class gets offered cards from every class after each combat encounter. [*]A few [b]visual bugs[/b], mostly during cutscenes and tutorial prompts. [*][b]Sound[/b] overlaps and gets super loud. Example: if you trigger two or more of the same rush card at a time. [*][b]Achievements[/b] are bugged. (upgrade any stat to 20 / upgrade a weapon to max lvl / beat satan) [*]Game does not explain the difference between block and armor but it is pretty easy to figure out. [*]Every win counts as a lose even after unlocking the final act and defeating satan. [*]You get passive power ups after beating certain amount of combat encounters, some of these powers are very poorly explained. Example: "when a boss fight starts create and draw this card" but theres no way to see what the card do. [/list] Im out for now. I hope this game improves but i highly doubt it, since it's out of early access now but still feels more early access than most actual early access games. [b]EDIT: No fixes for their broken game for over a year but they come back to beg for a Steam Award nomination. ABSOLUTE CINEMAAAAAA[/b]

Neat ideas. Very poor execution A simple playtest and grammar check could do wonders for this very lazy title. A shame, the art and some mechanics are nice.

Almost all of the achievements are broken. 💩 I should have 13/18 by now instead of 5/18. Edit: They started unlocking randomly for no reason, but i'm still missing 2. At this point, i should have reached 100% at around 15 hours of playtime. I'm now at 37 hours, this is just ridiculous.

+ There is a pool of different starting decks + The gameplay itself is fun + Many interesting cards and effects, items are a nice addition - Set bonuses are not explained - Sometimes cards get lost for no apparent reason - There is way too much text for a rougelike / rougelite. Between rounds you sometimes have to click on a chat for 5+ times - Runs take too long

I am genuinely confused by this game. Tried 1 run, spent 2 hours and finished it with ease until the very end, that is locked behind further progress. The idea of the game isn't much different from other games in the genre. Yet, the execution is rather poor. Here are some examples: -There are no tooltips for some effects. You don't know in advance what you get, when you pick a card with stealth. -The balancing is so far off, that the game throws cards at you that allow full damage negation while riposting with the same card, not just the typical block/armor stuff -The damage calculation is off as well. Enemy has 20 armor, my card shall deal 30 dmg, no further visible multipliers. Yet, the enemy takes either 0 or 20 sometimes. Either way, there were many situations where the calculation didn't make sense. This game would be really nice if it was well polished. In the current state, I would refund it if I didn't need 2 hours to test whether I can beat it in my first run. Sadge.

Score: N/A There are simply too many good (rogue-lite deck-builder) games to play instead of this. I'd rather just play more Slay the Spire or Monster Train. Combat is unbalanced, sometimes exploitable. Getting more actions per turn depending on the number of enemies is really stupid. Combat actions and animations execute slowly. Writing is bad. Comedy doesn't land. Many choices are uninteresting, but some are well designed/balanced. Art and animation quality are good. Audio/Music/SFX are okay.

Preface this by saying that I do like this game and enjoy it but I do have low standards. Poor programming of the card game itself, there are steps that are out of order and cards execute themselves in ways that make no sense for their stated wording or most CCG style games. Story is ok, if nothing new but the actual writing itself feels machine translated. There are archaic uses of words and other strange phrases used throughout the game. Menu design is bland with generic tinted boxes and plain white text that gives it an unpolished feel. Pick it up on sale, its fun.

https://youtu.be/Ur4_D9CEn7g Limiting card count to enemy count prevents playing combo or variety of cards in most fight which instead become slow slug fests.