Got this game for free on EGS at some point. I didn't know what this game was, it's genre, story - nothing. What I've experienced really shocked me.
I'm not a big fan of strategy deck-builders, but this game really scratched my itch real nice. I could not tell you how excited I was by unlocking another seal and seeing what cards there are and what combinations you could do with them. Every time I saw an upgrade to an already used card (for example exchanging a regular waste card to a well-versed one), I was elated. However, I thought that every seal would focus on a different strategy - aspen seal could be waste, fern seal could be waste and so on. It's more of a mish-mash of different status effects, though some of them dominate one or another seal.
I cannot give all the credit to just the deck building though, since it is pretty bare-bones. The atmosphere that this game creates with it's visual artstyle, it's audio tracks and VA is phenomenal. As of 5 seconds ago, I've checked that the devs are from the same region of Russia, as the game plays in. The XIX century Russian region, with all of it's mythology, really shines and from what I could tell, most of the VA's are Russian themselves, so it really adds on to the realism (with how real kolduns, chorts and zagovors can be). Jammed to all of the folk songs.
Won't talk about the story, it's alright. No real ground-breaking work there, but it's enjoyable nonetheless. Most of the main characters are great, some are at most okay.
The little side content always rewards you with an item, experience or knowledge on how to not make the same mistake next time and incentivizes you to explore every dot on the map. The travelling is akin to games like slay the spire or inscryption, with every location on the map having some kind of encounter, whether it be enemies, friends or something else (spooooky).
All in all, if you want some narratively typical story with great characters and good beginner deck-building mechanics, please try this game out, it's an absolute treat.
I'm not a big fan of strategy deck-builders, but this game really scratched my itch real nice. I could not tell you how excited I was by unlocking another seal and seeing what cards there are and what combinations you could do with them. Every time I saw an upgrade to an already used card (for example exchanging a regular waste card to a well-versed one), I was elated. However, I thought that every seal would focus on a different strategy - aspen seal could be waste, fern seal could be waste and so on. It's more of a mish-mash of different status effects, though some of them dominate one or another seal.
I cannot give all the credit to just the deck building though, since it is pretty bare-bones. The atmosphere that this game creates with it's visual artstyle, it's audio tracks and VA is phenomenal. As of 5 seconds ago, I've checked that the devs are from the same region of Russia, as the game plays in. The XIX century Russian region, with all of it's mythology, really shines and from what I could tell, most of the VA's are Russian themselves, so it really adds on to the realism (with how real kolduns, chorts and zagovors can be). Jammed to all of the folk songs.
Won't talk about the story, it's alright. No real ground-breaking work there, but it's enjoyable nonetheless. Most of the main characters are great, some are at most okay.
The little side content always rewards you with an item, experience or knowledge on how to not make the same mistake next time and incentivizes you to explore every dot on the map. The travelling is akin to games like slay the spire or inscryption, with every location on the map having some kind of encounter, whether it be enemies, friends or something else (spooooky).
All in all, if you want some narratively typical story with great characters and good beginner deck-building mechanics, please try this game out, it's an absolute treat.