Card Brawl

This game looked pretty cool in the trailer... But when it REALLY impressed me was when I actually played it! If you are a fan of turn-based RPGs, a fan of deck building RPG games like Magic the Gathering, or just a fan of well made strategy indie games, then this game should be well worth the price of admission for you! Watch my "First Play on Launch Day!" Video Review right HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hwo7y0rv1c&feature=youtu.be I scored this game at an 85% and with a couple of minor changed suggested to the developer in my above video, this game could be up at a 93% on my score card! ..Very impressive for a $2 game! Simple enough to understand quickly, but offers enough strategy and replay value to make it fun and enjoyable, yet challenging as you progress through the levels! Well done to the developer!

Not great. Like a VERY basic mix of Hearthstone and Slay the Spire. You get 1 mana per turn up to 10, and draw one card per turn. Then you can buy new cards or regain health in between fights. [list] [*]The cards are very basic, buffs, poisons, attacks and defends. There aren't really any creative or strategic cards. So playing is boring and also picking new cards isn't very exciting. [*]There's no story or goal, you just try to defeat the designated number of enemies. [*]Descriptions are poor (e.g. what's the difference between poison and burn effect? There's no explanation.) [*]After a few raids it feels like the diversity of enemies is low.

An interesting game, fans of card games should like it.

[h1]Less spectacular than Solitaire on Windows 95[/h1] Card Brawl is a rogue-lite ([i]?[/i]) battle card game, resembling in some aspects [b]a REALLY cheap knockoff of Slay the Spire[/b]. You start with a preconstructed deck, fight enemies using the card mechanics ([i]e.g. attack with offensive cards, defend with defensive cards[/i]), gain rewards ([i]new cards for your current deck, gold to buy heals or more cards[/i]) and go on to the next fight. Although this can make for an exciting experience with a lot of replay value, it just doesn't for this game. [b]Everything is just too bare and basic[/b]. Your attacks are mostly just attacks, some apply a debuff to the enemy ([i]damage over time or damage reduction[/i]) or allow you to draw more cards, same with defenses. You can buff yourself for more damage output, either for the entire duration of the fight or just one turn. Also you can play cards that only allow you to draw more cards, without any pesky side-effects. And that's it!...

It's not terribly complex, but it's paced well and it's fun to build different decks in it.

Not bad... there are better deckbuilding dungeon sims like this one out there, I won't lie, but then almost all of them are so inexpensive, and if you're like me where you love this sub-genre to a point you just crave new and different content, this definitely is perfectly servicable gameplay that offers something new if you're too burned out to keep playing other titles in this niche. I feel an important thing to point out is that it's a bit more complex once you're in a ways? Not only the tutorial, but the first mission includes some reduced options regarding gameplay, so it's got more depth than you'd think once you get in a little ways. Most of the problems I have beyond that are rooted in the fact it tries to do some things pretty different than the norm, and it was maybe a tinge over-ambitious since some don't work super great, but the game is functional despite these issues, so I won't fault them getting a bit too experimental. Definitely worth trying if this is a sort of game ...

Very interesting and fun to play indie game. Very low cost, good art style, and fantastic background music

You might be indignant of my non-recommendation based on the number of hours I have played. Those hours came from idling the game on accident. I probably will finish the game just because, but I would never recommend this game to anybody that I liked. It's basically like if slay the spire were *really* really bad.

I just uninstalled this game withouth finishing it. I just couldn't get pass the 4'th raid no matter how many times I tried hard. Card Brawl is truly a bad game, and I will tell you why. 1) I really don't like games where you can't save your progress. The game consists of 5 raids (like chapters), each raid has a progressing number of battles ( 8-10-15-15-20). Once you start a raid you either beat all battles and thus finish the raid or your progress in that same raid is lost and you must start all over again. 2) It's the first card game I played in which you cannot build your own deck. At the beginning of each raid you chose from a few uninspiring deck classes which are all very similar and make little or no difference in how you play the game and whether you will have more or less success. So basically you just use the preset boring decks. 3) Each battle you start with only 4 random cards, which is too few, because your success in a battle is based on the very cards you draw in...

Maybe it's not roguelike (after restarting there is no difference) it's very simple card game where there is no reshuffle after the last card (not like in the Monster Slayers). You can play with different deck after finish the campaign but you won't. Pros: - Easy to learn, simple card system - Graphics is ok Cons: - I hate the randomization in store when I want to buy a card - I HATE the 'do not take a card' button this is the most annoying part because you lost your money and you don't have new card (WHAT ???) - there is no "normal" options menu - music is not bad but it's very interesting the relaxing music when you are fighting or dying - I can't check my deck when I want to buy a new card - you need some luck to finish the game, not only skills (It's cheap so perhaps some are excusable)