Dimwood

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep... Dimwood is a wonderful card game battler that plays with light levels and the effects each of your cards have. Featuring a fascinating customization system for your cards throughout your runs and a variety of enemies, Dimwood has been a treat to sink my teeth into. I'm looking forward to braving the higher difficulties and fine-tuning my understanding of the nuances of its mechanics.

Between switch and steam I have over 1000 hours in Slay the Spire. A few hundred in Balatro. Probably 500 in Dawncaster. I like deckbuilders is what I'm saying. This is a good one. Lots of stuff to unlock, different ways to play, interesting mechanics. Learning the mechanics is fun. I was worried I wouldn't be able to read some of the symbols but I've had no problems (though my eyes are still bad). I really recommend this game!

Highly modular deck builder, cards are piles of effects and you can move those effects around to make bigger effects per card. The light levels are a really neat mechanic that often rewards you for keeping utility in your deck. Since the constraints of the game mean that cards don't have unique text to combo with, you have to be aggressive and dig for passive effects that you can work around, and/or that your deck is small enough to exploit your good cards. The more you play, the more access you have to dense cards, and the more numbers go up.

Dimwood is one of the best rougelike card games I've played. The player's starting decks and monster's decks are well designed with specific functions that make them enjoyable to play with. There's 3 sets of starting decks based around different ways of modifying cards, and each of them is a blast to play with, and changes the way you approach gathering new cards. I definitely have favorites among the starting decks (like king, moth, and magician), but none of the decks and inept, unfun, or poorly designed. One of the things that makes this game different from games like slay the spire is that your deck in Dimwood must have great versatility. It can't just do one thing really well, it has to be able to preform well against various different monsters, and a lot of the late game enemies can really tear apart rigid builds, especially the final boss. Another aspect worth pointing out is that I never feel as if I just got a back luck of the draw, or didn't get the cards I needed to make a build work. There's so many options with your deck, that you can make 100 fun, effective builds with whichever cards you come across on a playthrough. Playing decks you've constructed can also require a lot of skill when you start using artifacts like inversion pact and control. The art is also very unique, beautiful, and remarkably clear. The music is also a great part of the game. I love the theme for act 3 especially. I would heartily recommend this game to basically anyone, even my mom. 10/10

My vegetable started rotting and two twins name Jennifer and Jen jumped me. 10/10 game, support your local indie dev's *needs more bunnies*

Sooo confusing at the start when trying to figure everything out, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ was so satisfying later on!! Love the art style, it's so neat; i really like the diff filter thingys we unlock as we go along, it makes it so fun! Also love that the card itself has the artist's name :> the endless combos you can come up w is amazers, rlly feels like it's a deck by me!! the one thing i still don't get is what inverted does T_T

This is an incredible roguelite. The light balance is a twist in gameplay like the movement in 'cobalt core', but executed brilliantly when combined with the way enemies interact with light. It's a mechanic you can't avoid, and balancing your light level flexibility with stacking phrases to maximize card value is thought provoking in an exciting way.