Words Can Kill

It's a neat idea and CAN be fun sometimes, but there are some very unfair things that feel far more brutal than stuff in Slay the Spire and similar roguelikes. There are enemies that can reduce the value of your tiles to literally 0, and keep doing so repeatedly. Whilst I haven't had it happen yet, I'm sure they could effectively reduce your entire deck to 0, guaranteeing a game over. Similarly, there are enemies who will straight up DELETE tiles from your deck over the course of the battle. Again, once you run out, game over. Then we have a final boss who just disables your shield whenever he feels like it, making you take completely unblockable damage and once again guaranteeing a game over if you came in with low health to start with. Player strategu, skill and deck builds don't matter when you're not allowed to actually play your tiles or do anything to prevent what's coming. Meanwhile the enemies can have effects like requiring you to hit them once before you can actually damage them, but by that point you've wasted most of your tiles and can't block what they're doing to you. Whilst I'm sure 'pro' players could find ways around this, it's extremely unforgiving to casuals, even on the 'Gifted' ("easiest") difficulty. In general, there's just far too much "reduce the players options to pretty much nothing" moments in the game compared to other roguelikes. Whenever these moments occur, it seriously leaves a very bad vibe, as the loss doesn't feel down to my poor choices or bad luck like in Slay the Spire, but instead because the game just 'decided I lost'. So as it stands, I can't recommend it unless you are able to and would have fun getting around these particular issues. If these weren't so prevalent, I would recommend the game for sure. It's no masterpiece but it's a fun little time for a reasonable price. After one to many runs like this, however, I don't see me playing it very often from now on.