Dungeon Deck

This was a treat! I took a bit, but looks like my favorite strategy is summoning as many spirit golems as possible with lonely golems+artists clay, and also saving a bunch of training dummies. The crowds will not die down.

Edit: also, when does "Time" start appearing? I find myself getting too many bucklers a lot..

This game was awesome! I really did enjoy it. I am looking forward to more in the future.

Hi cool game, what engine do you use?

This is a great game, and I loved almost every bit of it. The parts of the cave section where you cant see any stats was especially neat, and I don't think i've ever actually seen a game do that. I think my favorite way to build my deck is to just get as many golems as possible (preferably forest or armor) and artists clay (for more golems). Although I do like the knives a lot :)

Initially I felt Bow build was unreliable compared to Knives or multiplying, supplements any deck build, Golems but that's only with the Training Bow and Wonky Arrow. Once you get Double Shot, Tethered Shot, Blight Snake, or the almighty Arrow Cannon  you will start ripping enemies apart. Defense shredding, burn, blight (which counters healing enemies like Bats and the 3 Racoon boss), are incredible when fired multiple times. It also helps to have draw engines (Bonus Cards/Mitosis/Card Forge), Hidden Truth (to search anything), Third Hand/Move Dispenser to continue your combo, and Reanimator and Deck Swap for reusing discard cards.

I don't really see the use of Mechanical Bow creating more bows. I guess to help with Ethereal Quiver creating more arrows? Except if you have Arrow Cannon, you don't need more bows. Only time having a higher bow than arrow ratio is if you have those 30% chance reusable arrows but that's a niche scenario.

Swords are pretty basic with pure damage. The Fire one can Burn and the Vampire is decent for healing (if enemy is not shielded). Angry Sword seems very mediocre in this game where builds have multi-attacking in a single action, though it's still better than Shy Dagger (+2 dmg if your Shield is >50?). Corpse Sword would typically be like 5-7 dmg but I suppose if you kill a boosted Mega Shark you can turn the Seagull boss into chicken nuggets.

Wands seem to be the hardest to play with their high risk-low return playstyle. There doesn't seem to be many of them so they're also rare to find unless you reroll rewards. Maybe instead of picking 5 random cards (which can sometimes give you bows or arrows but not the other), you can choose a "class" and the game will then give them better odds appearing in the reward/shop/sacrificial altar?

Being able to sell 3 cards or shred them with the altar is a nice way to get rid of undesirable cards.

Shields seem to fall off once you get into late game and enemies start hitting harder (especially against Mega Shark). Practice Dummies are much better damage absorbers (and also draw aggro away from your fragile devices/golems), when they're on the field (like other summons) they also won't clog up your draw/deck until destroyed, and they are also an option to Duplicate. Shield Golems are just unparalleled for mass action-less shielding. Healing Golems likewise are better than those 3/5 HP food. Shields with effects (like Thorns) or Food with effects would make them better.

Hi Incinious! If you'll let me I'd like to translate your game into Japanese! Trying to build up a game translator portfolio from scratch and your game caught my eye. Let me know if you're cool with this idea and we can discuss. Thanks!

very fun. I beat it with a deck that was basically pure defence. A bunch of armor golems and artist's clay(for more armor golems), some training dummies for defence while I set up my immortality, some healthcare to deal with the damage I took during setup, and my only attacking cards were clubs and stuff that reduce enemy damage.

The ending was a fucking rollercoaster, It took me a moment to realize how powerful the snooping gull is, and at one point I had 1 HP, but then I suddenly got some insane luck, managed to go from no golems to all four out in like 2 turns, which gave me enough defense to fully heal using fuzzy armor, and I a second wave came during the battle(something I didn't even know could happen) carrying a clam so I could steal its defense.

I love the game, it's so fun to play! But I wish that it was easier to remove cards from your deck, as if you arn't going for bows, knife, or summon synergy and you get a multiple cards (from random wheel, e.g.) they become useless in your deck, and you just spend an action discarding it.

I like the combat, but I find the text hard to read.

I think that this game is very fun, but here are some suggestions:

1. sometimes (I experienced this maybe 3 or so times?), I was fighting against the hibernating bear, and then the screen became dark and I thought it was a feature. It was not a feature, since none of my cards did any damage, but the bear and bat things did damage to me. It might be fixed already though, since I have not seen the bug in a while.

2. I think that there should be music everywhere: in the battles, in the shop, the healing fountain, and the sacrificing areas. I feel like the music being just in the main titles feels a bit off to me, so it would be nice with music in the whole game.

3.  I think that the screen where it shows "new game", "continue", and "settings" should have a new bar called, "achievements", where you will be able to beat the game by completing all the achievements. 

4.  Does the sacrificial altar always return something? I didn't get some on my first sacrifice, so I don't know if it is a bug, or if it is purposely done like this.

5. I think a character selection would be nice (but not necessary).  You can customize how your character looks like, and during the card battles, there would be a custom aura around you. The character could (but not necessarily) have special abilities or different decks, like a dagger wielder, or a swordsman, or an archer, or a summoner, or a magician, but it would be nice to have something like this in a fantasy-like game. 

6. More decks would be amazing!

7. More cards could make the game more interesting, like more potions, or more effects. One effect could be this:

blindness -- decreases every turn, starts at 3, opponent attack has a 10% times the current number chance to miss.

8.  It would be great if you could earn a currency every time you play, and that currency can be used to buy aesthetics outside. For example, each time your run ends, you earn 100 nuggets, and you can pay 30 nuggets in the game store to buy a  red tablecloth. It is unnecessary, but I would like it.

Super fun, I loved stacking my coins hahahah.

For anyone playing, if you want a harder challenge play arrows only

Cool, I liked it

Apart from screen issues its a nice game

I like it

Great game, cool cards wish it told me how to use the cards but you learn pretty quickly, hope this game is free on steam would like to download it to my PC. It's simple but sweet

The new update was a lot of fun! I played the version before and this update brings in some cool cards enemies, quality of life fixes, etc. Loved the new cards. Felt like there were more variety to choose from. Overall, I am highly enjoying the game! Can't wait for more future updates and release of the full game! 

What did you make the game in?

Super fun, pretty chill gameplay, I was playing a bit, pretty nice.

Quick bug with corpse sword: if you get it after a fight and use it before you've killed anyone it freezes the game (i think this is a bug but it has only happened once)

Great job on this! I really enjoyed my few runs of this and i think this is a really cool concept. Can't wait for the next update!

Quick bug with roulette wheel: if you hoover over a card you can see its stats while its flipped. (I think this is a bug, maybe its not though)

Found a way to crash the game :)

Made a video

Great Game

(I was playing on the web version)

Thoughts

Apart from Golem spam, the other builds are very balanced. I really enjoy the differences between the weapons that make the types all eel very unique.

The simple and intuitive combat style is quite enjoyable which makes it easy to learn. Once you do understand it, the gameplay can be quite fast and enjoyable. 

Multiple times through my playthroughs (6 times; golems, bows, swords, clubs, daggers and burning) I thought a few cards were useless or too good but found out they balanced quite nicely.

Personal Issues

- Sacrifice Alters gave a random card including starter level cards. 
- Apart from sacrifice alters, there is no way to destroy cards (some games allow card destruction in the shop for a fee)
- Blight doesn't seem to have much effect, especially in the late game. 

Due to a lack of deck manipulation, scaling cards such as 'Angry sword' get worse as the game goes on and I believe it is meant to be a boss reward card.

Other thoughts

Art was good and consistent, and playing around with the coins on screen was a fun addition. 

Apart from the increased amount of health, I didn't see any visual indicators for a boss/elite enemy.

There is no music during play, only on the main menu.

I haven't been able to get wands to work. I always pivoted out into something else. (Maybe there are too few wands.)

Conclusion

Well done and keep it up, lots of potential here and I can see you are working hard on the game.

i love becoming a golem summoner, had like 35 cuz of the lonely golems lmao

whqat game engine is this made in 

how does the health fountain work? I want to sacrifice my health but don't know how to do it.

Haven't had the crash since! Now if only I could beat those damn raccoons

The game is great! Sadly while I was playing the web version the game crashed when I used the Corpse Sword while I haven't killed any enemies with the card in my deck, other than that the game is very fun and I'll try to buy the full version when it comes out!

Im Stuck Fighting th Bear Boss as my save Crashs when I beat him

I REALLY LIKE THE GAME ITSELF KEEP IT UP!!! I ALSO LIKE THE AESTHETIC OF THE GAME WITH ITS VISUALS!! 

why cant i skip card draw, this is aids,

A bit OP but very fun

was fun until it crashed

Unhandled Exception - uncaught exception: { message : "trying to index variable which is not an array", longMessage : "trying to index variable which is not an array", stacktrace : [ "function _25("trying to index variable which is not an array") ","function __yy_gml_array_check_index(17, [undefined]) ","function gml_Script_scrHideCard([instance], [instance], [undefined]) ","function gml_Script_scrAddCardToHand([instance], [instance], [undefined]) ","function gml_Script_scrDeath_Sum_ClockworkGolem([instance], [instance], [unknown]) ","function script_execute([instance], [instance], 100577, [unknown]) ","function gml_Script_scrKillSummonedCard([instance], [instance], [unknown]) ","function gml_Script_scrDamageSummonCard([instance], [instance], [unknown], 3, [unknown], [unknown], [unknown]) ","function gml_Script_scrCA_AttackCard([instance], [instance], [unknown], [unknown], [unknown]) ","function script_execute([instance], [instance], 100577, [unknown])

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game crashed as i beat the final boss on the sea level rip 

ok so I went with the forest route,  and I finally beat the racoons, turns out the black screen glitch does not happen if you chose the forest route (at least for me)  it only happens after the cave. 

I... might have made an infinite loop.

An excellent game, but there could be a print and play version of it ? with the same cards. If so, I will happily offer to translate them into Spanish.

game randomly crashed while playing the cave level, but I don't think this glitch happens often