Shards of Order

Runs like garbage on a 1070. Needs more graphics settings. https://imgur.com/a/sWwKUus

Excellent.

knew nothing more than that it was a deckbuilding type RPG, and saw the art style and quality, all for $10 and decided to give it a try. what a total gem and surprise. it's a bit short (but repeat playthrough can be a thing, with it's narrative choices with consequences and build options), but again, the level of quality for what it is, from a small indie team, for $10, is astounding. all that, and there is a very very good game here. aside from the ace artwork, art direction and graphics, the sound/music and voice overs, and the very interesting world building and writing, there is a very compelling, well designed gameplay loop/mechanic here, that is not a typical deck builder. it's a very engaging RPG first, with a great story and characters, AND actual meta progression and builds. the encounters can be very challenging, especially a few that whooped me hard, until i changed up builds and approaches. there is a certain build that kinda needs rebalancing, as it can just trivialize the game. other than that, i can't really fault the game at all. it was one of the best $10 i had ever spent. if you're into dark fantasy narratives and world building, presented with awesome hand done artwork, high production value all around (in an indie game with like maybe 20ppl in the roll credits), rolled into a very well designed, fun and challenging RPG with deck building combat (not a rogue like, it is a linear story adventure and has meta progression), do yourself a favor and pick this up. thank me later.

good new card game

It's a really fun addictive style game. I love the cards and turn based, the feel of the hits! Fun little ways to solve side conflicts for some things. I really enjoyed the game, wish it was longer but for $8 was pretty damn good! Two different endings a "good" and "Bad". You get a free heal every battle but use with discretion ;).

Very fun game and unique battle system, was realy enjoyable, it is just very short.

I give it a downvote. The story is to linear. Why do I have to play multiple fights before save or cheese it with quit & save? That wastes my time. The leveling does not feel good. I have the feeling that the gain is little. The equipment is also meeh. Maybe worth in a sale.

If you like card battlers you'll probably like this. It's a bit different as its an RPG with permanent progression as opposed to a roguelike which is more typical in this genre. My only gripe is mainly around the balance. Your cards cost 'time' to use and this 'time' is what the enemies are based on too. The battles are deliberately designed to be challenging but I think there are some fights that are way too harsh. It's particularly bad when you fight groups. As an example you might fight 5 enemies which will all act in 3 'time', so let's say that you decide to play three 1 cost cards, so now you just did 3 actions (probably ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ones) while the enemy did 5 (probably caving your face in). This can quickly get out of control, even worse when the enemy has effects that mess with your cards cost or debuff you. Everything enemies do is very strong so you're incentivised to not let the enemy act as much as you can which makes high cost cards really rough as using one often leads to enemies taking multiple actions as a result. The game does have a great skill tree which unlocks more and more cards for you so eventually I did manage to find a pretty broken card combo which carried me through most of the game which I suppose is part of the point of deck building games (that you put a good deck together). Regardless, this game cost me less than £10 so based on that price point I can't actually really complain about anything - it's well worth the cost.