The main goal of the game is to increase your sheep count to 1000. Using a combination of the event cards, achieve the goal before the deck is emptied 3 times. Let's go sheep.
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On paper Shephy is a game I should love, a solitaire card game with an extremely strange aesthetic of multiplying sheep while avoiding natural and some less-natural disasters.
A high score chasing mode as well as an extremely strange single player story that includes multiverse hopping and some extreme dread... but with sheep, gives me what I'd want to dip my toes into.
So it's inventive but is it fun?
Well that's why I've binned it off for now.
It's not really.
The game itself is somewhat of a puzzle and figuring that out including interactions between the cards and when to play them is the standard fun you'll get out of most card games, however it all feels quite basic and feels very reliant on your draw.
Variance is a part in card games that puts a lot of people off and who can blame them, most people would like to win because they used skill not luck and the same goes for losing.
The positive thing about variance however is that in a head-to-head game it can give anyone "just a chance" regardless if they're a beginner against a veteran and people love an underdog story.
Your opponent in Shephy is just a timer and being only you have the luck of the draw variance here just leads to bad or even annoying.
I found myself wanting to mulligan(draw a new hand) so often and you can with a pause and a couple of clicks but it felt so needed I wondered why it wasn't just a single tap?
That alone isn't my only gripe with the game.
The presentation is clearly mobile based but bar the unique and cute art for the sheep and what is used to convey the story this game looks extremely basic.
Music is repetitive and doesn't sound looped properly and the few sound effects there are seem extremely obnoxious.
Admittedly these things would be fine on silenced phone sat on the toilet but this is a console release.
Oddly I would say if this in a sale and you have the coins in your Nintendo wallet to grab this for "free" then I'd say you should actually check it out because it's so odd.
Should you use real money on it, even just a couple of quid? I wouldn't bother.
There's so many other card games you could be playing instead some of this.
A high score chasing mode as well as an extremely strange single player story that includes multiverse hopping and some extreme dread... but with sheep, gives me what I'd want to dip my toes into.
So it's inventive but is it fun?
Well that's why I've binned it off for now.
It's not really.
The game itself is somewhat of a puzzle and figuring that out including interactions between the cards and when to play them is the standard fun you'll get out of most card games, however it all feels quite basic and feels very reliant on your draw.
Variance is a part in card games that puts a lot of people off and who can blame them, most people would like to win because they used skill not luck and the same goes for losing.
The positive thing about variance however is that in a head-to-head game it can give anyone "just a chance" regardless if they're a beginner against a veteran and people love an underdog story.
Your opponent in Shephy is just a timer and being only you have the luck of the draw variance here just leads to bad or even annoying.
I found myself wanting to mulligan(draw a new hand) so often and you can with a pause and a couple of clicks but it felt so needed I wondered why it wasn't just a single tap?
That alone isn't my only gripe with the game.
The presentation is clearly mobile based but bar the unique and cute art for the sheep and what is used to convey the story this game looks extremely basic.
Music is repetitive and doesn't sound looped properly and the few sound effects there are seem extremely obnoxious.
Admittedly these things would be fine on silenced phone sat on the toilet but this is a console release.
Oddly I would say if this in a sale and you have the coins in your Nintendo wallet to grab this for "free" then I'd say you should actually check it out because it's so odd.
Should you use real money on it, even just a couple of quid? I wouldn't bother.
There's so many other card games you could be playing instead some of this.
I implore you to play this freaky little gem