came for the roguelite, stayed for the existential horror

its so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun and lucy is me fr

This game is amazing if you like visual-novel style RPG's and even though some aspects of the game could use a little work overall it was a great experience I got emotional over. Would recommend

+Such a good story, a lot of care was put into it and it's incredible. There's twists, character backstories have effort put into them, and you can really empathize with pretty much all of the characters.

+A lot of characters, some I liked ability-wise more than other but overall certainly can't complain there. Learning some really strong ability combos for each one feels good too.

+Plenty of items to use like consumable potions/herbs/pills, relics you can use for party-wide buffs among other things, and some very strong equipment that can make or break your run.

+Tons and tons of unlockable content, very important for deck-building roguelikes and this one definitely has it.

+/-Character friend system allows you to access more lore and backstory about each character and their motivations, though learning what particular items each character likes can take some guessing. Having to gold friendship each character to get the true ending makes sense lore-wise but can be quite grindy so I view it as a bit of a negative.

+/-This should be obvious as part of the rogulike deckbuilding genre but I wanted to make a point to potential buyers that you will get frustrated on runs getting relatively useless skills and or relics/equipment and dying sometimes. It's up to you if you are willing to put up with it, but all genre veterans here know the deal by now.

-Not a lot of enemy variety in the base game, they need to put a bit more work in there imo so while you're grinding out a lot of runs you have some more interesting encounters.

-The DLC bosses are not balanced well and honestly you don't really get much for beating them past the first time or so. If you're going to make bosses brutally difficult you need to offer a proportional reward or there's no point doing them.

-I got a mod for this purpose, but with how many items there are in the game they should do like some roguelikes do and offer bans to particular skills/relics/equipment you don't want to see in your runs. Because some are perfect for particular characters and others are just absolute garbage and reforging them into other items is not readily done in most cases.

If you can put up with the gameplay negatives at times, the story is far beyond what I expected from a roguelike deck-builder and I can feel every bit of the time and effort the developers put into it. Incredible work by to the whole team that made this game