Moon Watch

It's an interesting genre mix on paper, but too flawed in its current execution for me to see a way to fix things without rebuilding from the ground up. The closest comparison that comes to mind would be Loop Hero which executes a deck builder 'auto battler' quite a lot better, which would be a good place to try again from. The major issue comes from a lack of strategy. The structure takes a lot from typical deck builders like Slay the Spire but doesn't quite meld them right to what it's trying to do. You adapt the deck based on what you find, which is perfectly fine for a standard roguelike, but the issue is that the game doesn't have that many actually interesting strategies to adapt to. This being due to the split in attention between what weapons you find and what items you find, with each both being temporary. The dominant strategy then in almost all cases is to just spew out as much as possible to compensate for everything being temporary, which is not only boring, but time consuming. A secondary issue is the movement. There's an inherent clash between the two genres at play: do too well with what you assemble and the game lets you stand still. Don't do well enough with what you acquire and no amount of good movement will save you. There's also just not that many things you have to dodge until later. The movement, for the most part, is almost completely superfluous. It makes a difference, but either end of the extreme in performance makes it pointless. That might feel unfair to point out since Vampire Survivors is much the same way, but the point of Vampire Survivors ISN'T STRATEGY. So taking so many cues from it and attempting to apply them alongside a typically strategic genre like a deck builder feels haphazard. It's been over a year and a half since there's been any news from the devs on this page, so I don't exactly have hopes for the game's future. Still, if you do end up seeing this, don't take this too harshly. I applaud the effort for even trying such a creative mix in the first place. It worked out pretty well for Backpack Hero after all, and I love that game.