Stackflow

If I could I would currently maybe give this game something in the middle of a yes and a no. I do really like tetris games and a roguelike tetris style game sounds like a cool idea. Sadly, currently I feel like this game is lacking a lot from both a pure game perspective and from a visual flair perspective. On the game side, roguelike + “insert game” type games can a lot of the time be very very fun games. And how these two things complement each other play a big role in how fun that game ends up being. In this game's case, my biggest gripe is that I do feel like I’m missing the fun of regular tetris. And I think I’ve read some reviews of people saying something similar. It feels kinda strange to not be encouraged to play tetris like you normally do with using the hold and stuff. And more about thinking of what piece you place. Maybe it can be fun if you fully rewire your brain to forget normal tetris. That aside, if we just talk about the added blocks with different effects. It did not really feel like I could have too much of a plan, and the best action was usually just to buy new blocks no matter what to just have more blocks to play. It’s missing something that games like (sorry to mention it) Balatro has, or Raccoin, or Dice with Death. I do believe this can be a fun cool game, but for me it kinda needs to head back to the drawing board a bit and rethink the core. Now on the visual flair angle… I hate to sound so harsh but… grey on grey on grey? Boxes with dropshadow? Like… cmon? A little more than that would be nice. Like on the visual front this looks very much like a bare bones prototype of a game to test a game idea. It’s lacking a lot of an identity and feeling. Like for example, Tetris: Effect Connected is a tetris game not maybe everyone likes, but it does feel really nice to play, and just playing tetris in a cool music visualizer in a sense just feels cool with the game reflecting what you do etc. I’m not saying you need to go that crazy with this game, but just give me some cool feedback when I clear rows that makes me wanna clear more. And something nice to look at. I don’t know how many you are working on this, or if it’s just a solo thing. So I hope I don’t sound like I’m asking for too much. Now lastly real quick, the music and sound just don’t feel like it’s made for the game. I do believe if you remake the look of the game first you can get some music that fits the visuals in mood. So, I hope this game changes over time. Currently it did not make me wanna play much more than an hour. But I do find potential in the idea and I really hope it changes to something fun. At its current state, the price is way too high for what it is. But if you read this a couple of months from now and you see big changes to the game, hay, for sure it can be worth it if not even more, who knows. But as it is it feels like a 2,5€ game.

Along the infinite quest to add Balatro's format to different proven games, Stackflow gleefully reaches Tetris and to great success. 1.0 is much improved from the Demo I played a long time ago, and I can see myself coming back to this game for a long time. Stackflow isn't as in-depth or varied as Balatro, you will see most of what the game has to offer fairly quickly, but in that smaller pool it is much easier to find your breaking points consistently and trying new combos is quick and easy. I also really like the "multiplayer" mode, which really just amounts to daily and weekly leaderboards. But it's fun to see others play around alongside you day in and day out. It also comes with some good advanced settings to finetune the Tetris part of the game to how you like to play, so you'll feel right at home! If you want a different flavor of Tetris, Stackflow is a strong option.

■良かった点 ・シンプルだがコンボが決まってスコアが計算されていく瞬間の効果音と視覚効果に爽快感がある ・良くも悪くも複雑な事を要求されないので思った通りにゲームを壊すことが出来る ■気になった点 ◯見た目が違うだけでやってる事が同じ 大きく分けて場に貯めて直接は壊さないシナジーか、貯めて壊すシナジーの２種しかないのでどのビルドを選んでもゲーム体験に大きな差が感じられず作業感がある。 当然この２種のビルドがシナジーする事がほぼないので選択肢の幅も狭い ◯一部のスキルが強すぎて調整ミスを疑うレベル スタックに倍率をかけたスコアが目標スコアに到達していればステージクリアになるのだが、最後の息吹（最終ピースを置いた時に目標スコアの10%をスタックに加える）とハイローラー（レベル間継続でこれまでリロールした回数を倍率に乗算する、これを１０倍以上になるようにリロールをしておく）だけでどんなにインフレした目標スコアであっても最終ピースを置くだけでクリア出来てしまう。（目標スコアの10%に10倍をかけるので当たり前だが…） この手のゲームでこういう壊れたコンボがある事自体はまぁ良いのだが、問題はリロールにかかるコストがずっと1コインで軽くスキルの数が少ないせいかスキルを揃える事も難しくもなんともないので再現性が極めて高いという点 追記）一応ボスのスキルで「４行未満を消すとスタックが0.5倍になる」と「10秒毎に破壊不可能な床が迫り上がってくる」があるのでハイローラーは20倍以上（適当にリロールしてるだけで何百倍になるのであまり気にしなくてもいい）最終ピースが時間内に置けるようにヒットマンでデッキ圧縮（そもそも最終ピースを置くのが目標なのでデッキにブロックを追加する必要自体がないが…）はしておいたほうが良さそうだった ■総評 800円（セールで600円）という事もふまえると値段分は遊べて深みはないもののそれなりにこの手のローグライク＋αゲームの面白い所には触れられるゲームなのでギリギリおすすめ出来る範囲のゲームという感じだった。 気になった点のビルドの幅が狭い事も、スキルが強いうえに簡単に揃えられる点もv1.0時点でまだゲーム内要素が少ないせいでおこってる節があるので今後のアプデや追加要素次第ではもっと楽しめるゲームになる可能性はあると感じた

A great easy to pick up and play roguelite. Feels satisfying, familiar and with some depth I think. Playing on my steam deck it works great.

Going to be so honest, I didn't know that I needed rogue-like tetris until I had it and now I'm hooked.

Balatro meets Tetris, and it's amazing!!!

Great game, but there's still improvements to be made (I think this is in early access but I can't remember). Right now I'd give it a 3/5 (I did 100% complete the game btw) Initially I really loved it but as of right now there's not enough diversity and all the blocks feel the same Each block type have retriggers, ones that spread, ones that give you flow, ones that give you score, etc The shop system is honestly pretty good And for the perks. To me it's unclear when each activate, but if it's based on where they're positioned, being able to move them around would be nice

Sehr entspannend. Aber leider noch viel zu wenig Achievments. Die meisten hat man in den ersten 3 Runden bereits. Aber ist ja erst V0.13. Bin gespannt, was noch kommt :-)