One Turn Kill

iron coin

What if there was a card game in which your deck size is also your health bar and your mana bar

This game is cool but not for me. It's definitely for a lot of people and, for the price, I recommend trying it for yourself. Here are the reasons I refunded instead of spending more time with it: - The game unlocks things when you win combats but the pacing of the unlocks is off. I have upgrade chips for a feature I haven't unlocked. I have a card that boosts itself under conditions that I cannot possibly currently meet with my tools (although I'm sure it will be possible later). - The game only goes up to 1920x1080. If your display is a higher resolution, it may be difficult to read the text. - The dialogue seems either poorly translated or a little trite. - Timed fights in this type of game don't do it for me. - While extremely unique, the system of your "mana" being the cards you have left to draw from your deck just doesn't feel very good to me. Also, not a problem with the game but I feel like it missed the opportunity after you've won to replay the animation of your attacks in sequence to show you a small cutscene version of your one-turn kill.

Kind of misrepresents itself; it's not a deckbuilder roguelike but more like a very short card-based JRPG that specifically caters to your fantasies of playing storm in MtG again (or Yugioh). The roguelike elements are very light (really just picking a skill after every fight). If it sounds easy to you, don't worry - the enemies can get surprisingly tough (the best strategy I found involved looping Aggra-Ray) and there is a lot of space to just make whatever silly combo deck you're imagining without it feeling frictionless. Also the music is fantastic and the story was surprisingly good. There's a plot twist that is very obvious from the beginning and another that I really wasn't expecting that reminded me of a certain JRPG that people are talking a lot about at the time of this review in 2026 (you'll know what I mean if you play the game). My one big gripe with One Turn Kill is that there is a fight that involves a real time mechanic, and I think that just isn't a good fit for this type of game. You can skip it after the first time, but still, I don't think it belonged in this game. I wouldn't blame someone for letting this put them off it entirely since the time pressure is actually pretty aggressive. You can definitely beat this game in an afternoon, and it's cheap too - highly recommend if you can get over that last one thing I mentioned. (also worth mentioning - not really great on the Steam Deck; I ended up switching over to my desktop so I could use my mouse)

Very fun card builder.

コストが山札そのものなのが独特で、カードを引くこと自体がデメリットになるのが斬新でした。引けば引くほど有利になる普通のカードゲームとは逆で、「本当に今引くべきか」を考えたプレイングと、そのためのデッキ構築が想像以上に面白かったです。 構築もワンパターンになりがちかと思いきや、いろんな方向性が成立するので飽きが来ません。デッキ枚数もそれほど多くないため、トライアンドエラーが手軽にでき、気軽に試行錯誤を楽しめました。

You might not expect much from the first glance at the pixelated graphics, but the game itself is fast-paced and deeply strategic. You fight the same set of characters, but as you raise the difficulty levels for each fight, the dialogue changes and you unlock new cards that can change your strategy wildly. I just went with the buff and dump strategy, where I drew all my cards, buffed them, and dog piled the enemy at the end. There are some annoying moments, such as when each of the boss gimmicks brick your run if you or the rng messes up the deck order, but the runs are super fast, so it never bothered me too much. And the story was good enough. Not much else to say on the story.