Thanks so much for playing through and for the feedback! There’s definitely some tweaking necessary to the gameplay as it’s a very early prototype. I think I may want to adjust it so that you can buy new cards with grass as well. I think ideally the computer would have different strategies as well. For example, if they were to lay down a bunch of ice at the beginning, it would kill your grass and make it impossible to merge. But since the AI is stupid, that doesn’t really happen. Also, I think you get way too much grass. I used to have it so merging subtracted that amount of grass from your total but took that out, but I don’t think I balanced it right after.
I honestly wasn’t sure what order to do easy, medium hard in for the exact reason you said. Ultimately I decided easy was 3 spaces just because it was less overwhelming for newbies, but I probably should have removed some of the cards in the hand as well.
Drawing cards one by one might work, but it wouldn’t feel as much like Gwent which is what I was going for, since for some reason Gwent is an Mature rated game and I wanted to have something that was family friendly. I think if I were to lower the total amount of cards on the field it would probably help, and then give you a way to draw more of them.
Anyway, you’ve given me a lot to consider! Once I’ve made some changes I’ll get back to you and see if you can have another go!