Northmark: Hour of the Wolf

Noting wrong with it other than ... eh enemeys are too op.

Northmark is a neat, easy card battler, with hidden items to find on the town maps. I enjoyed my time with it. Slightly lacking in polish, probably low replay value. The achievements are nicely balanced and fun to track down. I definitely recommend checking this out on a technical level. There's some neat game design choices being made here.

Northmark: Hour of the Wolf is a charming little card-RPG that I genuinely enjoyed while it lasted — the card battle system is simple but satisfying, and the self-aware humor kept me smiling throughout. The art style is pleasant and the story moves along at a decent clip, though don't expect any surprises from the plot since the villain might as well be wearing a neon sign. My biggest gripe is the lack of any real challenge: I barely lost a single fight once I figured out the strategy of stacking buffs on one strong unit, and I had completed everything — every arena, every hidden stash, every quest — in about five hours. Replayability is essentially zero since encounters are all scripted and there's no difficulty setting to shake things up. That said, for a few dollars on sale, it scratches a casual card-game itch well enough, and achievement hunters can clean up in a single playthrough.

Short Charming Fantasy game. Nice retro art, and easy to get into gameplay. Game was a little too easy, wish it was longer. However I got this from a bundle for less than $1, so I can't complain. just don't pay full price.

Very short game. Not really stand out, but it works. Buy it on sale if you're into these kinds of games. I do wish there was a back button on the dialogue. I clicked forward too quickly on an explanation of the battle system and automatically clicked skip, since it is to the left of the forward button. I suppose it speaks to the ease of the battle system that I did figure it all out, though I spent 2 battles not realizing you could attack with your unit cards and not just the attack cards in your hand. Works perfectly well on Steam Deck. It's a point and click game, so you just need to have one of your joysticks/trackpads set as the mouse and a button as left click.

Un jeu juste génial ! Une véritable histoire dont vous êtes le héros, où l'on incarne un personnage parmi 4 classes, avec des attributs à chaque niveau gagné et un deck de carte composé de créatures (jusqu'à 3) qui combattent pour nous avec leurs attributs et des cartes armes ou actions. L'histoire va nous faire explorer diverses contrées, dont les graphismes simplistes sont amusants. Dans les lieux ont pourra découvrir des caches secrètes, des magasins, des personnages qui vont nous confier des missions et des arènes de combat pour gagner beaucoup d'or. Le jeu n'est pas très dur bien que le début soit plus ardu dans l'attente de bonnes cartes. Des succès Steam au nombre de 13, assez faciles à obtenir. Cela a été un plaisir d'y jouer et j'ai même été déçu d'arriver à la fin ... j'aurai bien prolonger l'expérience. Un grand oui !