The store page as a whole for the game is a bit misleading in a couple ways, and for that, i'd take points away from the score if it was a note out of 10, it's a chinese mobile port and it comes with some of the typical weakness they are prone to, but it is still a fully functional and pretty good game, even if it is very much designed like an old flash game. So the game is prone to some slight level of jank.
The gameplay is definitely like to be a landlord or balatro, but the map you see is not a roguelike style map, but simply levels. It's a bit slow and superficial at first, but after you play enough, even if you are always pretty dependent on RNG, the game actually has an unexpectedly respectable ammount of strategical depth to the choices you do make. More than i expected out of a small mobile game "roguelike" from China who lets be honest, floods the market with a lot of low quality games especially in these genres.
I'll try to explain how the game works:
If you aren't familiar with the genre, it is basically a slot machine deck builder, where you select symbols that will have different effects, selecting the correct ones will allow you to get more score, you can keep or remove a certain ammount of symbols per level, with which you try to beat the score requirements. The deck are reset between levels. Try to look for symbols that synergizes.
The MAP: The game is basically made up of unlockable levels, and the only real difference between nodes and levels is starting loadout and difficulty. As you unlock more nodes, different decks can get added to a level, which it randomly selects them from a pool of all your unlocked decks. So outside of unlocking more content, you can view the nodes as simply starting loadouts, rather than actual progression. Increasing the difficulty (selecting a higher level on a node) will rewards you with either more nodes, more decks, or some upgrades but the latter seems to be mainly exclusive to the node they are earned on. The end game is simply reaching the last level of any node you feel like playing. In sum, the map is not something that happens during the run, but the selection menu itself to start a run, which is a short level with a few "deadlines".
As for the GAMEPLAY: While you do not have that much agency over how things play out, the game still has a fairly decent ammount of depth and challenge for what it is. At first you have only the starting decks and there isn't much variety in playing the different levels, but as you unlock more decks by discovering nodes, the game will give you more potential variety to what decks are added to a level. A level basically is made up of one preselected deck, and then 3 more random ones amongst those you have unlocked (deselecting and reselecting a difficulty will reroll the decks as shown above the reward window), plus universal pieces. Each node, and as you increase the difficulty, will have a variety of boons and challenges unique to it, to the point where the highest level isn't a free win. The RNG is well balanced enough to not be overly stacked against you, but still forcing you to make interesting choices instead of relying on fail proof strategies. While you usually focus on one deck in a level, you may be forced to diversify, and some decks do interact with eachothers in interesting ways sometimes, albeit uncommonly so. There are, however, some rather unbalanced decks/strategies.
