Placid Plastic Deck - A Quiet Quest

I really miss the old Single Player Videogames of TCGs, so when I heard of this game I was on board almost immediately. But my excitement died almost immediately after the prolouge. Because first thing you notice, the game you play here isn't an original game, it is inscryption. And I don't mean it's a game inspired by Insyscryption, it's straight up the same rueleset. From the way how the game board works, to how the life counter works, to how cards and their effect work, to how resources work. Everything is straight up taken from Inscryption. Now I love Inscryption so therefore I should be happy about getting a pseudo sequel, right? Well I would if the game wasn't a worse version of it. Deckbuilding is far far slower, there are no items and on top of it all none of your opponents play by the same rules you do. Now ofc this is also truie to Inscryption but here the game is presented as you playing against some kind of Dungeon master. Here it's just scripted battles against opponents that always hit their perfect curve, which they can play for free while you have to deal with RNG and resource management. The story is also nothing to write home about. A bully kid steals your deck so you go on a journey to beat them up. And after just 2 Acts and a prolouge it's already over. It also does not help that your Main Character goes on for the entire prolouge about how they don't even want to play the game, which doesn't help building enthusiasm for the game. But all of that gets topped by a part in the game where you have to face little kids that speak in Brainrot, unironically using words like "skibidi" or "rizz". This part is surely not going to age terribly. There is also a bunch of minigames here and there like a 3D POV Maze or a Where is Waldo like Puzzle, but all of these make you feel like you're wasting time that you could spend playing the card game, which is what I assume most people are here for. So that's what this game is. It's a worse version of Inscryption which can't even focus on it's own main feature. The idea stands as a pretty well one as this kind of game is criminally underrepresented right now in my opinion. But even in this very niche there are more enjoyable alternatives.

The cardplay takes a lot of inspiration from Inscryption but strips away a lot of the complexity and most of the fun (for me), it might be better suited to people who are more into the narrative. Also, the first person section gave me a headache.

Meh.. cute pixel art but if i wanted to play Inscryption i would have played Inscryption.

This game was just barely charming enough that I want to be nice to it, but this is the most amateur-ish half baked deckbuilder I've ever played. The music was nice.

草了，为什么有这么好的底子做出来个这个东西 日你吗的，我本以为流程是20到30个小时的长篇冒险故事，打牌只是旅途的一环，就像地球冒险/mother、lisa、undertale、omori那种。nm地图小的可怜，游戏总流程5小时就能打完，里面各种像是伏笔和世界观的线索全tm没有后续。 cnmd流程上下就真的只有打牌，而且对局全几把看运气、对手全tm先铺场。 其中夹杂的小游戏也是纯纯拖延游戏时长，只是为了填充不多的内容而已，恶心至极。 这是少有令我想要开骂的好游戏，因为它本来可以成为更好的自己，真的罔顾我游玩demo之后的期待

The demo is focused on the story and the card game; well, after that it becomes about speaking to random NPCs, doing (hard) point-and-click mini-games, finding icons / items (blank cards) set on the RPGMaker world. It stops being a real card game. Near the end of the game, the designers added some super effects to the monster cards or even the opponent (like an +1 offense every 2 turns, or an effect which stops your best card in the back row from going forward) It feels that they could not focus on delivering a card game first and have to add filler in every way possible.

It's cute, it's annoying and it's short. There IS strategy here, but it's also horribly RNG dependant. If you like cardgames it's worth getting on sale, I don't think I'd ever reccomend anyone buy full price for this. I don't dislike it, it's a decent 6/10 cutesy cardgame with some humour sprinled in here and there. But that is also all it is. Perfectly okay.

Cute, that's about the only good thing about it. The game in this game isn't great, there's not a lot of fights either, and most just don't feel difficult in a fun way. Play Inscryption instead.