I'll admit up front that deckbuilding games are not always my strong suit. That said: I do really like this, but I also found it very hard to build a deck, because the card-gaining was slow (and random), but a lot of the cards only work in synergy. Vampires are only useful when you get a cluster of five of them, so taking one vampire card feels like it's just a waste of space until you get one more. Werewolves are only useful when you have vampires...and so on.
Of course, it might just be me.
Thanks for playing and taking the time to write up your thoughts! I hear you about the synergies, thats something we want to work on in the next couple weeks as we update the game. I think you're right about werewolves being too specific.
Vampires have another function that's not well highlighted right now in the game. Because they have the #blood tag, rivers will become blood rivers when next to them, which is very useful! We're trying to make the tag system in general more clear, but hopefully this tip helps in the meantime :)
About the deck building feeling random, I'm curious how often you're using the reroll feature? That is something we added so it hopefully would feel a little less random but I'm not sure how many players find or use it.
Anyway, thanks again for playing and I hope you like the next update!
I hesitated over the reroll feature for the first few games, until I realized I wasn't getting past level 3 anyway so there was no need to preserve resources--at which point I learned that it's three rerolls per upgrade, not per game. Once I knew that, I started using them more, and it did help somewhat. Of course, once of the things about the synergies is that swapping cards not only means "pick up a vampire and hope you start getting more", but "give up a ghoul/tenement to get it", which was a small blow to the existing synergies in the deck....
Knowing the vampires/#blood thing definitely makes a difference! By the time I encountered the vampires, I'd internalized the rule about rivers being "if they're connected to the original blood source" and hadn't thought at all about their literal text.
