Wildfrost

Negative for dev attention. I love rogues through and through. Balatro at 500 hours, slay the spire, S ranked Cuphead, I love throwing myself over and over at games. Wildfrost though is severely imbalanced against the player. It’s just too much. In 20 hours I’ve won a single playthrough. I’ve only made it to the last boss for the second time maybe three times and lost every time. It isn’t a git gud situation. It is just wayyyyy too stacked against you. A veteran rogue player after 20 hours should be able to beat it twice. It seems simply impossible. The UI for Controller mode on Steam deck is super unclear about what’s highlighted and what’s not. Sometimes for no reason you have to move the joystick to be highlighting “next.”

This game is challenging to be sure, but it doesn't feel unfair. There's tremendous input randomness, but very low output randomness. After you play a card, the board follows a fixed pattern to resolve itself. With this in mind, you can envision the state of the board after the turn finishes and plan accordingly. As a result, whenever you die, it doesn't feel like the game is BS, it feels like it's your own fault and you can reflect on your decisions, identify what got you killed, and improve for the next run. To top it off, the meta-progression just enables more options, rather than making your existing options stronger, so you don't feel like you have to grind, only improve your skill with what you have. It's a masterclass in roguelike design with an extremely satisfying loop.

The game is fun and addicting, but sadly also very frustrating. Every run I've lost so far I have lost based on me missing or forgetting about one interaction/modifier that is in play. In each of those situation I had a winning position and deck. In my opinion the game overloads you with too many active enemies each having their own unique modifiers. As a result you have less incentive to tactically think your way out of a battle, and instead are pushed to just make a better deck. That brings us to another aspect: during a run you only get to add a very limited amount of cards, and there is very little ability to steer where your deck ends up. Even the shops have just 4 cards available. This means that any 'crazy strong' decks you can end up with are very obvious from the get go.

SUCH a gem. This game is a wonderful spin on the rogue-like genre. The idea of having to overdo/outwit your past self to continue on is simply delightful!

Play Time: 54hrs Achievements: 21 of 27. 78% Date/Version: April 25th 2026 Rating: 7 out of 10 Wildfrost a card battler deck builder set in “unique” world where you have companions, and other champions who'll fight along side you to victory. It's a enjoyable game and maybe you'll like it. What makes this game a bit different from a few other games in the attack grid system, recall system, and reinforcement countdown. The battles are done on a 2 grid system, where each unit has a timer that counts down, depending on if the timer reaches that unit will take it's turn that round to attack. You can preview the turn order that each unit will attack for that round. If you reach 0 on the action timer the unit will do an instant action. There is a timer for when you can refresh your hand for free. A timer for when enemies will come out and support or arrive to battle you. And each timer can be manipulated. Refreshing your hand early will allow you to get a new hand but it'll end your turn and cards on the field will play out their turn as normal. The free hand draw just draws you a new hand and will allow you to play a card(s). There is a learning curve to this game, and has a terrible end boss system that many of us dislike. This will never be changed, and honestly I don't see why. In short the team you beat the boss with will become the current non-secret pre boss. So you think you want to buff your units with “charms” think again because you'll just prevent yourself from beating yourself. Buffing up your units you have unique “charms” that can be equiped, and unique universal passives that will impact the entire game play. The game utalizes a “relic” like system on their difficulty adjuster as well. While the achievements are semi simple to get, they are mostly achievements you have to chase after. And frankly I spent more time than I would like trying to obtain these achievements. Maybe if the end game boss system was different I wouldn't care as much. In addition this game has a major mechanic in it where essentially you can do fine and have no issue winning, but if you make one mistake it's end game. P.S. That's on the easy difficulty. The art I'm just going to say it..... while cute it 100% takes from this show called Adventure Time, My Neighbor Totoro, and maybe more. No idea in any case some people may like this and other may not. Overall I enjoyed my experience with this game, you should get it, give it a try. And do better than me, 100% of the achievements. PROS: Unique Tribes (factions) Unique Main heroes (randomized stats for the most part) Unique champions and companions Unique Team Combos (sort of, the end boss messes up a HUGE! Part of the game) Level difficulty adjustment Appropriate game length for each game. NEUTRAL: Balance is lacking with some charms Learning Curve Art CONS: End boss – fighting your previous team but they are drastically buffed

As a Slay the Spire fan, this game flew very much under the radar for me up until very recently. I actually discovered this game on Spotify, as I was listening to the STS soundtrack and the algorithm picked up a track from this game a bit later on - and it blew my mind how melodic it was, had me bopping before I could stop and say "Wait, what is THIS?". I immediately purchased and installed the game, and to my surprise, it lived up to the hype of the soundtrack. Wildfrost is an incredibly fun and charming game, with a decent amount of balance and a crazy amount of builds and approaches to combat. I found it difficult at first, as I was making so many mistakes and didn't fully understand the mechanics of the game, but after a few hours, I was soaring. I managed to defeat the final boss in a few runs, but then I hit a bit of a brick wall when realising the new final boss becomes a "possessed" version of the hero and minions you JUST used to defeat the boss. This is when you truly learn how to play the game - what works, what doesn't, and more importantly, how to counter-play properly. I've since beaten the final boss several times now and each time I did, my build was incredibly OP as I was prepared for the final fight. If you understand which abilities counter which, you will start flying through the final act of the game more and more. It takes some time, and is a little different to any other deck-builder you've played before, but it ultimately rewards the player with an overwhelming sense satisfaction. Also, Foxee is OP.

If you like roguelike deckbuilders, this game has it all. The mechanics focused on the turn timer and positioning of your units is easy to learn, but hard to master, and is the main standout that makes wildfrost as unique as it is, therefore: Interesting, very unique mechanics: check Upbeat, nice background music: check Good sound and visual effects: check Very distinct and cute artstyle: check Rng that feels pretty good most of the time (damn yank charms): check Meta progression that gives you interesting sidequests: check The potential to create op combinations (and even go infinite): check Also, since the most recent update the devs have enabled modding through the steam workshop, which adds near infinite replayability due to the many many shenanigans the community has come up with and will hopefully continue to. New tribes, cards, pets, sharms, you name it. The only criticism i have is one that comes in once you've progressed far enough into the game so read with caution: One of the coolest mechanics, if not the coolest [spoiler](your hero and team becoming the new final boss)[/spoiler] is kind of disabled through meta progression [spoiler](once you reach the true ending, because at least in my book the vanquish fight is the ultimate test of a run that i wouldn't want to miss most of the time)[/spoiler] and while that could be fixed whit a mod i don't believe there is one doing that right now Overall 10/10 don't sleep on this game

全実績解除済。見た目が好みならオススメです。 難易度は高めですが理不尽感は少なく、負ける時は自分のプレイングミスかビルド方針が曖昧であることがほとんどでした。 基本的にアタッカーは体力が低く、攻撃を受けると一、二発で倒されてしまうほどですが、 ・タンク役のキャラや設置物で守る ・攻撃が当たらないようにアタッカーの配置を変える ・敵の攻撃ターンを調整する ・攻撃してくる敵を先に倒してしまう ・敵の攻撃力を下げて耐える など、様々な手段で敵の攻撃をやり過ごせます。 このやり過ごしをいかにおこなうかが、このゲームの特に面白いポイントだと思いました。 操作性の面でも快適でUIもそこまで複雑ではなく、リトライはあまり苦にはなりませんでした。 あと、個人的にはBGMも結構気に入っています。