Drop Duchy

DEUS VULT! 100/10 Drop Duchy is a roguelike using Tetris pieces. The actual gameplay of Tetris, you know, frantic placing of blocks, lining up full rows, failing, crying, all that, takes something of a back seat in practice. Emphasis is placed much more on spatial planning, resource management, and improvising the best continuation when THE DOWNTOWN IS THE LAST DAMN CARD AGAIN! How it works is that the pieces show different types of terrain. Each type interacts with the building pieces you deckbuild and shuffle in with the terrain, plus enemy buildings forced on you. Get resources by filling rows or from buildings, remember to raise some armies, try not to die. Between rounds, pick new cards and spend resources to upgrade them. The game's randomness may seem like it's everywhere, but in practice it's quite controllable. Between levels, you have generous card rerolls and can limit the random options to specific pools. During levels, just get good lmao. The great: * While you'll do two hours in one sitting, finishing a run provides a natural break for going to the bathroom or acknowledging family members. * It tickles the Increasing Numbers endorphins, but gentler than Balatro. Animations are more subdued and three-digit numbers usually mean you've reached endgame status. * The game rewards skill without being repetitive. Every level is different, your deck heavily affects your placement strategy, and if you truly do get messed up by terrible RNG the game offers zero-judgement save reloads. It's not cheesing if the ingame tip tells you to do it! * Also, you have powers to stack the deck and can rewind to before your last placed piece as often as you want. You'll rarely get stuck with silly mistakes. * The wooden board game aesthetic just does it for me. The pieces adjust to form continuous groups with surrounding ones, the UI is lovely, and sound design just crisp. The meh: * Everything in the game is an unlock. Most notably, each faction starts with like two buildings and a piece of snot. Do yourself a favour and run them through on Easy once at the start. Not only will you learn what they're about, at the end of that run, your next run will start with the equivalent of several level completions. In all fairness, ONE brief run is usually enough to get all the starting improvements. * This is very much a game to concentrate on. The unlockable factions' gimmicks are *interesting*, but can also be immensely frustrating. I already get cortisol spikes remembering spending the entire level making a Crusader Box only to learn the "Counts as a River" Bridge is still its own region and instead of 150 boys I now get 9 and die. * Despite the gameplay being varied, I would argue each faction has a few techs that are practically mandatory. You can usually arrange getting them, but have fun playing the Republic without Masonry. * There is a little bit of RoguelikeOnlyBossMattersitis. It inspires you to plan for a high army output level and maybe specifically *to* favour economy over army early on, knowing you can just take the damage and heal it up later by the power of three Bridges. But the point remains that bosses field significantly higher unit counts than any level before them.

This game is basically Teris with many many MANY combos/unlockables/upgrades/types-of-tiles and a medieval coat of paint. Its very fun and satisfying to play, and evn though I'm only 5 hours in its already obvious there is content to spend a long LONG time on this game if you enjoy it as much as I do.

Took a bit to understand how to get my forces up but after knowing where to place the blocks correctly I started progressing further. Great game to bypass time if you're just sitting around.

Great game, could have used more achievements, given that I achieved things beyond what gets awarded :D

设计很有新意的一款肉鸽卡牌……俄罗斯方块……战斗游戏，上手得动点儿脑子，同时兼顾卡牌，资源运营，多地形俄罗斯方块，最后的属性克制战斗。能看出制作组想法真的很多，还有各种科技树卡牌要看和取舍，普通难度适中不难，但是如果深入玩儿就比较有挑战了，不够休闲，比较费脑。

오 나쁘진않아 시너지 강화 위치선정 가챠 등등. 세일할때 저렴한 가격에 dlc랑같이 살만 할 만함

Tetris en card builder soupoudré de rogue lite. 10/10