Grail

This is a really unique auto battler card game with some quite original mechanisms. I had a blast during 160h of beta testing after playing the demo for 25h 😊.

Very interesting tackle on probabilities, statistics and the way you manage your deck. And it looks very nice, as you would expect from a team who built stack lands. The tutorial is also good, which is a plus. Enjoy!

Why I disliked it: This game is more of a Algebraic Formula Battle Simulator than most other card-based games in its respective genre (i.e Auto-battlers and Rogue-likes). If the sum of the energy cost of your deck isn't > 0 for each shuffle, then you are going to have a very bad time with the cards you are trying to play with. And even then, you need that formula (aka your Deck) to always be > 0 regardless of its arrangement. Since the game randomizes the order in which your cards are played (barring extra power ups that will place a card in a specific spot each shuffle), one bad sequencing could leave your formula in a energy (resource) deficit that will cause you to lose. And you *always* need to play with cards you draft; leading to very little ability to experiment with different strategies until you have achieved Formula (your deck) always > 0.

This game is awesome, very fast paced gameplay with all of the usual autobattler dopamine rush

是的，孩子们，我靠叠血量把黑暗欲望磨死了，你要问叠了多少？ 答案是：[h1] 3242血！！！ [/h1] [spoiler] 我爱兔子，我爱furry！！！ [/spoiler]

This one was a slow burn for me. Initially I tried out the demo when I was already deep into Slay the Spire 2 and I tried it a bit and kind of bounced off. But I came back a little while later and I'm glad I did. The build diversity and synergies in Grail are amazing and I ended up sinking WAY too many hours into the game. There are still a nearly limitless amount of builds I'm interested in trying to put together. The learning curve takes a minute, at least in terms of understanding the energy system and how to build a balanced deck. It's a little bit painful until you understand how everything fits together and the potential builds to go for, but once you get the hang of it, it's just SO much fun. Definitely recommend!

Excellent auto battler and deckbuilder. The build variety is strong and the artwork is amazing. I have over a hundred hours and I'm still finding new builds. Cannot recommend enough