ULTRA LMAD

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"ULTRA LMAD" is a routine "I can't believe it's not a mobile app" CCG with a couple of interesting features, the biggest of which I have to say is there's no predatory mobile app cash shop or other nasty monetization. The idea is that you're at school (this is a good theme for a CCG?) and you need to get through the day... but you're not limited to just the mostly-workable CCG gameplay, there's some other minigames cobbled on as well, in some ways this is a jack of a few trades but a master of not many at all. Gameplay in the core CCG part of this presents a few interesting mechanics that other CCGs may want to pay attention to. What works well is the idea of "remembering" and "forgetting" cards for your in-game energy resource, this really makes the game work well around things like dead hands. What doesn't work so well is the idea that certain cards can only be played from certain "positions" which puts a real dampener on your feeling of flexible choice when playing the game. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procgen algorithms to create infinite, samey, repetitive, soulless levels, because that's a lot less work. As a result of this poor decision, the game gets tired and repetitive almost immediately. Developers must learn that procgen is a terrible substitute for creating real content. It should not be used as "ez-mode" for content creation, as the developer tried to do here. I know the point of all that is to try to be like Slay the Spire, but that's also one of the things I liked least about Slay the Spire. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 12 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.