Guardians of Hyelore

Amazing! Love this game and it works 99% on the steam deck, just 3 small issues: The modals for the spell upgrades get cropped, I suspect that it's due to the aspect ratio? There's a bit of slowdown in the most intense battles (doesn't happen terribly often and it doesn't affect gameplay much The loading seems to get stuck around 90% and takes a while to finish I'd say the description texts being cropped is the biggest issue but I was still able to play the game through to the 3rd world without struggling too much and let me tell you, totally amazing fun. Couldn't put it down for hours.

Game was fun but VERY short and VERY buggy... I would recommend if they added some replayability and fixed the bugs. Short: I have beat the game on the 2nd hardest difficulty in about 5 hours Gameplay issues: Do not have that much control over what skills you are awarded and can upgrade (for example can do a playthrough wanting to focus on archers but never be offered the archer damage talent, or never being offered an upgrade for it, even spending all your gems rerolling the talents you did get) Finished the game at lvl 27 but some characters do not unlock till 30 (i have since leveled up through the area, but its very strange that there is units you cannot even try during a normal playthrough) Would be really nice if there was a way to get/upgrade skills and get exp etc after you finished the campaign to really min/max your account, this would also add length to the game. (also note the campaign is fun, but the arena is not, it takes way too long (30min+ of idle pretty much) to get to a challenge, possible to start on a higher wave?) Very Buggy, some i encountered: In arena sometimes when an enemy casts a skill it can get stuck on screen... This has happened to me in the first couple waves (aoe kept hitting my unit for the next 20+ waves) or on higher waves (game over as a high dps skill keeps firing and never stops, even when u killed the enemy casting it) In the campaign, when u reroll a skill, you can get multiple skills back if u click fast enough on the reroll button. The volume sliders just dont work... I had to just mute the game as somethings would be crazy quiet and some would be super loud even though i changed the volume down low on skills, some skills went on the low volume and some didnt... When i reached level 30, went into area, i did not have access to the level 30 units (was not able to upgrade past level 1).. Restarted the game, then it worked... when hitting 75 max unit count before level 10 (possible in arena with upgrades) it still lets u level up, but u pay gold and nothing happens (cant go over 75 unit cap) when hitting max 3500 gold (just keep hitting I in arena when its maxed, it will keep upgrading) you no longer can gain gold at all AND waves wont progress (game gets stuck) fullscreen cuts off the bottom of the screen (can no longer see how many units of each time i have summoned)