When you play units, they will add cards to your deck, which raises the possibility of a really good unit providing junk cards to your deck. How many movement cards do you want? What about utility cards? Healing cards might end up as dead-draws, or they might save your bacon. This combination is actually incredibly interesting, and I can see a lot of deck-building questions that arise. These cards allow you to do anything from move, attack, heal, upgrade, destroy cards, place more units, and are otherwise the main way you will be commanding your units. From Slay the Spire, it takes the draw-5-cards-a-turn and a replenish-able supply of energy to power your cards. From Fire Emblem, it takes the grid-based movement, melee and ranged capabilities, as well as having a “leader” unit that must stay alive at all costs.

Basically, this game is like a mix of Slay the Spire and Fire Emblem. The main thing I want to talk about is the gameplay. The dialogue is pretty witty and can be quite humourous without being grating or childish. The alpha only contains one scenario, chasing out vegetarian goblins from someone’s farm. The story, as it is, is that you are a young girl with the aforementioned arm mounted AI, and you are tasked with doing odd jobs for money. The only complaint is that the main UI could lean a bit more into the old-school era, but that might not work as well as I am envisioning it. The music is a bit bare, very chiptuney, but it serves its purpose. It is all kinds of nostalgic and warm, and I love it. You cards are stored in a folder, and you activate them by plugging floppy disks into your arm-mounted, artificially intelligent IBM computer. The game combines a bouncey, cartoony style with some old-school computer aesthetics. However, what is there does give me a good idea on what the game will look and feel like when it is finished.įirst, let’s get the surface level stuff out of the way. There is just an alpha version available on Steam that is meant to preview the mechanics, art style, and story. So Floppy Knights, a deckbuilding/strategy game, really caught my eye, and it looks like a really promising start. I have also loved strategy games like Battle for Wesnoth, Civilization, and more.

I 100%’d Slay the Spire, am deep into Ascension, and even had a blast playing Star Realms. I have been playing a lot of deckbuilding games recently.

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