App Store Editors’ Notes

Game breaking bugs

I’ve been really enjoying the game but I’ve come across some massive run ruining softlocks. Any time that I kill a hydra head the game freezes and I’m not able to move or do anything but opening and closing the menu. The game also completely freezes if you manage to get the mechanical bird and swamp hoarder effects at the same time. These things are so easy to accidentally get, and if you ever close the game for any reason the run is lost and you get nothing from the journey, the other day this caused me to lose an almost 300 turn game. The game has so much potential, but it’s so easy to ruin everything with absolutely nothing you can do about it, losing all rewards.

Mostly awesome, 1 major flaw

I beat a king card and headed for the exit, but the exit was replaced due to an ongoing effect. Cool. I figured I’d just keep going ‘til I died. Unfortunately, I had gotten so powerful that the chaos couldn’t increase enough to generate a card that could kill me. I’m well over 1000 turns now, and can’t end the game without losing all my hard-earned winnings! This has become the game that never ends! Making the exit card immune to replacement/erasure would be a great way to fix this.

Lack of agency

Game feels entirely luck driven. You have run where you encounter nothing but monsters and die. Or you have a run where you get 99% Reduction and then run into a monster with 1000 HP and die. Random events that reverse cards and wording or change the colors of everything feel gimmicky and while I see the gameplay implications simply aren’t enjoyable and are more often than not frustrating and deflating while you wait for the timer to tick down and end. Things like increasing game speed and pov feel like they belong in the shop not on random cards. I never felt like my character was getting stronger during or between runs. Overall I would not recommend this game.

Possible bug

I don’t know if it’s a card in game I’ve tried looking but doesn’t show anything but I’ve had it happen twice already on really really good runs. Where after a battle or out of no where my attack goes straight to one and after that can’t do anything about it. Run turns from a perfect side scroll run to absolutely unplayable run. Is it a bug or a card in game that does this? It’s happened twice so if it’s a card it’s a game ending run.

Fun, except bugs

I have so much fun with this game, it’s laid back and no stress. However, there are bugs that freeze up the game. Nothing I can find fixes it and when you close out the game you lose the entire run. I am currently at a 342 turn game which is now frozen and it’s so upsetting I want to quit forever.

100% luck, 0% strategy

The only choice the player makes is which hidden random card to move to next. The game consists of mindlessly wandering around until I randomly run into an enemy that kills me, and there’s nothing could have done to improve that outcome. The concept has potential, but there needs to be some strategic basis for making decisions. A simple solution would be to reveal adjacent cards, with risk/reward for choosing more dangerous cards. Or indicate that certain goals are in certain directions. Anything to give me a reason to choose one direction over another.

Zero thought put into this "game"

You can't preview the cards you choose to step into, which takes away your power as the player and turns the game into "swipe and admire my AI art while you hope to get better RNG this time". There is zero strategy or decision making, the stats are not traditional (DEX, STR, etcetera) which is fine, but they are not even explained. The UI is very nice and there are progressive unlockables, but this is 2024 and these are not hard things to put into a game. Please do not support this lousy use of AI.

Cool Concept

The concept is cool. I appreciate the premium nature of it as I hope it’s being used to fund a new project from the studio, and to hire actual artists as most of the art is AI. The gameplay is perfect for a phone though. It a bit chaotic at times with very little thought put into actions. I’m interested in the future of this studio.