I can see where you were going with this. It's impressive you created what you did in the amount of time given - making a card game in general is hard. The art is great, and I like your take on the theme. I saw that on your main game page there is a much clearer break down of the mechanics. Incorporating this into the game itself would be helpful - but again, I realize we only had 10 days and it's hard to get this kind of stuff all figured out. I'd love to see how this builds out if you continue working on it.

The basic mechanics seem interesting, but a lot of it is not very clear: how do you get different planets? What does the upgrade button do? Are burnt cards lost, or are they shuffled back in the player's deck? Also I spent most of the time discarding stuff because I didn't get anything playable, and that's not really fun - or maybe I'm just stupid and didn't really get the game! :)

Designing an interesting card game in 10 days is definitely a hard task, and balancing it would be almost impossible - I actually think you did a really good job getting down the basics and the theme! If you decide to keep working on this game after the jam it could be really interesting!

I totally understand the rushed parts, sorry for your loss. You made a really good game in the time you had, I liked the UI and the cards looked great. It took me a while to get used to the mechanics, the detailed description really helped. It's a nice change of pace to see a card game in the submissions.

Sometimes I would get dry spells without either feeding or planet cards, but I think that can be balanced out when you add more cards. So if you end up coming back to this and finishing it up, I'll definitely play it

Very interesting take on the theme.

I didn't understand if the deck was infinite, burnt a lot of cards and got to a point in which no more "feed" cards appeared and I couldn't keep playing (no more dust...).

I think that you if have the time, you'll end up with a great game! Congrats!

First of all, I would like to commend you for completing the game despite what happened. My condolences. I hope that you and your family are doing okay.

I think the game has a very interesting theme and art. I absolutely love the cards, especially the VFX behind the stars. I can tell that you put a lot of effort into it. I like the anthropomorphism of the stars. The idea that there's an entity that is devouring the stars is just so cool, especially when there's a Lovecraftian cosmic horror vibe to it.

As for the core mechanics, I think they are sound. But I think the tutorials didn't adequately explain the game, so maybe I just misunderstood the game. I like the event cards. I think it adds variety to the game. I think the difference between the different civs is not obvious. I would expect some different properties other than the play prerequisite. 

There are a few bugs, and the UI needs some polishing, but I understand the time limit.

Overall, a very ambitious game. Though hindered by the unfortunate situation, I hope you can bounce back and continue improving the game! Nice attempt.

The tutorial doesn't show up for me anymore after the first try. I read the entire thing carefully, thought it was a bit much with the terminology I hadn't seen before. Started my game, aaaand still did not have much of a clue what I was doing. :D

Gave it another 3 tries, still don't quite understand what I'm doing. I end up finding myself clicking all the buttons that are on the screen - I understand I can discard what I have in my hand. I understand I can draw new cards from the bottom right and I understand that I can draw an event from the top right. 
What I can't figure out is what I'm supposed to do with the cards I have in my hand, which ones I can place on the board and how I'm supposed to interact with them with the cards I have on hand once I have managed to put something on board. 

So all that added up, I think it'd be good to have some sort of visual indicator on the board as to which card can go where, potentially with color, potentially with a placeholder frame, potentially just with text. Also it'd be nice to look back on the instructions/tutorial if needed.

Our game is complex as well and with less of a tutorial (only in writing on the itch page) so I've really tried my best, more than once. But I couldn't quite progress any further to a point where I'm not randomly clicking everything that's on the screen hoping for something to happen. 

Loved the music, loved the menu with the sliders for the sound right from the getgo and loved to zoom mechanic, because my poor eyes definitely need it in pretty much every game.

Thanks for your submission!

Hell yeah!  A card game.   Some really nice things going on here.  The zoom mechanic.  The music choice was very good.  Impressive game.  I'd definitely put this in your list of games to flesh out more with time.  Nicely done.

I love a good card game and I wish you'd had the time to get this more finished/polished. Sorry for your loss.
Just little things would make the game more intuitive/playable. I gave it my best shot but didn't really get anywhere with it.  On my first hand, I had no planets and I was still a little confused from the tutorial - its a lot of text to take in. I tried again and was able to make progress but it seemed I never got cards that matched up. Other than microbes on a terran planet with a red star, very few combos seemed to work. 
More feedback to the player would be helpful - eg. you can't afford to play that card, or that planet requires a different star etc. 
Also making it clear you can discard cards. Pressing upgrade deck seemed to change the cards in the discard pile? It wasn't clear how/when to upgrade. 
Also, for me the cards and the text need to be bigger,  the zoom did not work well for me, it jittered in and out at the maximum zoom so I couldn't really read. 
Events need to be bigger and more obvious. eg. when an event is triggered that card should zoom to the middle of the screen and be all big so the player understands something happened and what it was. 

I do hope you'll continue working on it when you're feeling up to it. Card games like this can be super addicting and very fun!

It's complex and deep, but it's well-made. I know some other comments here have told you that card games aren't their first choice of genre for this game jam, but I honestly think there's still a big audience for this game, including me :) I think the game needs more visual flair to make it interesting to look at and help the player understand what's going on, but I'm aware of the 10 day limitation we all had. Good job on this game, keep improving it :)

it was a surprising game. i wasn't expect that. first of all i liked your games itch io page. it was realy helpful. and second, game was realy deep for a gamjam game. did you make this game in 10 days? its amazing. congrats for submission

It's been a long time since I played such an interesting and fun card game! On top of that, everything also looks and sounds beautiful! I love how the player can zoom in to see and read the cards which is perfect for people with poor vision like me ^-^
If you ever add more levels or make it a full release, I'll be happy to play it!

It's not my type of game.  

But I give it a try....

And finally ... it's definitely not my type of game :p

But congrats for all the work you did

Card games aren't really my thing, but after giving it a few goes I really enjoyed it.

Solid submission and I hope you carry on working on it 

At first I did not fully understand the depth of this game. After reading the instruction again I got an "aha".

I missed some kind of highlight like "yes, you can place your card here".

Besides that, this game has crazy potential, theres pretty much logic behind these scenes!

Very well done, I'm impressed :)