Dimwood

hell yeah!

Very fun deck-builder! The visuals and written descriptions are great and strike a nice balance between cute/fun and eerie. Unlike a lot of other deck-building games I've played, you have a lot of control over the individual cards, and a lot of your power seems to come from the interactions between your cards and your artifacts, rather than between the cards themselves (much of the interaction between cards comes from manipulating the light-level system). Individual artifacts have a lot of power, so a lot of card-making choices come down to figuring out how to trigger them as much as possible. The "scroll" artifact, for instance, gives you a huge damage or block payout whenever you manage to trigger card effects (represented as individual symbols or "pips") in a specific sequence, and the "flourish" artifact doubles the effects of cards if you sacrifice their light-level-insensitive effects. The light level system forces you to be very methodical with your turns, since both you and the enemy's cards act differently in different light levels. Oftentimes a single light-change pip can be a more effective damage mitigation tool than five block pips, simply because the enemy's attacks only deal major damage at a specific light level. My only gripe is that sometimes the language used to describe events can be a little vague, especially when it comes to anything involving the card-grafting mechanic. I'm never quite sure if I'm about to graft my own cards, new cards, or a mix of the two unless I've already seen the event. Overall, a really fun time! I still haven't beat everything (the achievements seem to indicate there's some hidden bosses I haven't seen yet) but I'm looking forward to doing so!