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Completed a game and here is current completion score: 33% chapter 1 completion, 60% on chapter 2 and chapter 3 is unavailable for the demo.

Pros:

1. Personally really liked the puzzle aspect, comes across as a more hardcore version of riddle school but once you realise how pieces fit together, you can go beat the chapter. The whole puzzle vibe actually feels like you are a dark lord strategising the best actions for world dominance.
2. Really like how time is less of a speedrun countdown but more of a "trade time spent on this task in exchange for enemy countdown to be lowered". It makes planning so much easier and fair.
3. Music is nice.
4. The hidden enemy encounter called "They found you" is actually well made terror. Guessing it is supposed to be an unkillable boss but seeing 77777 health, a minute countdown and not to mention the name itself all make it suddenly terrifying despite needing 10000+ power to encounter it. Besides you get an achievement for finding that secret. (not sure if this is the same on the steam demo version)

Now for the cons:

1. The lack of hints/bad hints is a downside. Sometimes you have no way of knowing how to complete something e.g. the kingdom with ???? as the requirement is mildly annoying. At least have a tutorial linked in the description so anyone can try and 100% the game without mindless grinding, time wasting, trial and error.
2. Another thing is (don't know if intentional or it is a glitch) once you press an option, you can't click out for the reincarnation memory shop since options are 0.5 seconds and insta-buy as much stock as possible so often times you have to choose between xp or time skips. 
3. The cancelation punishment where if you misclick something the time decreases but if you midway click something else then enemy time still goes down but your original thing you were buying has its time reset.

Other than one minor visual bug (reported it) the ONLY major complaint is how unfair the final boss is.

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too long; didn't read: Either nerf him, buff the player, allow armour to reduce attacks to 0, give power ups that allow you to bust your enemy by adding attack or allow hand size to be increased again (don't know if it was bad rng or you removed that ability but only got a card that reduced handsize)

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Granted beat the update in one run but had to lose all the lives and beat the boss on the final one. It feels disproportionately more difficult and feels more rng than the previous enemies despite being a card game with luck.

The only major strategy for newer players to give is to only upgrade health and damage but to never die and loss a life until the final boss. Even still, on death you basically redo the level or choose to restart the entire run opposed to continuing the fight with progress saved.

Like one time got a perfect 13 only to be pelted with 15ish damage because the boss got a perfect 15. The only saving grace is when he busts (usually never) or deal the same card attack to make a draw.

Other than that, it is a fine game.

remember playing the newgrounds version

also the legendary scroll might not be working properly.

kinda cuts off numbers at a point.

only issue is how much the board grows.

if this ever gets a mobile port, so playing it on the go.

writing this down: if you get luck level 10 and use level 1 bombs, it weirdly feels like you get less money on average compared to luck 9 and level 1 bombs. Might be due to the percentages being distributed, not sure. Anyways reached the end of the demo!

edit nvm was getting 600K multiple times in a row due to really bad luck, yeah you get over 11m

though will admit still have not got quick cash's jackpot but yeah good game.

How much strength is needed for  the scratch bot to finally scratch plates? On level 10 and it says it is still to low.

Honestly will say you might want to buff/nerf somethings.

Unless intentional, upgrading luck to level 4 and using scratch bot on the level 3 $20 mini scratches causes 1% chance for $30, 1% chance for $67, 28% chance for $133 and a broken 70% chance for ~$650.

Basically it gives no insentive to gamble with the quick cash, apple tree or that acursed lucky cat.

Also is the fan supposed to be useless? That it would "blow" scratch cards to the scratch bot instead of needing to drag them but it ended up doing nothing. So is it cosmetic?

the hint on puzzle 48 calls g6 piece as g5.

nice puzzles, got stuck on the last 3

genuinely thank you for making the accessibility section have settings to change how easy/hard enemies are.

Think there is a glitch that caused demo progress to be reset.

If it was not for the comments showing a flag with a timer, would have though this "soft-lock" was the end of the demo. For those who don't know and are also knowledge softlocked: there is a breakable wall here.

TL;DR love this game, want to see the good ending. REALLY EVIL TOWARDS BAD RNG. [softlock]

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Does anyone have a video of the ending for beating the entity? Reached day 42 and spent a few hours before pc crashed due to being unable to get rid of all the blessing cards or skip the mandatory choice cards.

Genuinely trying to beat the last stage while seemingly getting stuck in a softlock due to bad rng with cards made this fight feel more like a chore to complete. Really want to see the ending but considering the fact getting lucky with cards, handouts and HOPING the executioner, purifier, butcher and minstrel are all alive for that final round is just stupid.

And then there was possible and accidental RNG manipulation. Always started off with the blessing cards which honestly were WEAK compared to the cards you get each round. Like during 2 nights, got the exact same hand layout which means there was something done to likely get that hand or just pain bad luck.

And after getting so much cards that they could not be shown on screen, it made the butcher bad as in order to remove those cards underneath your upgraded cards, you need to remove.. your upgraded cards which were better than the ones you want to remove. Not to mention removing 2 cards despite being forced to get another one plus getting blessings which might kill you if you don't play something else makes the butcher a means to delay the game crashing from too many cards in your deck.

Like maybe there is an easier way since people are getting wins under 30 days but trying to beat it by yourself is a lot more nicer.  So please, does ANYONE have a video of the ending?
 

Love this game but MAN is it difficult to deal 1 bloodstone damage.

Cool font, design and mechanics but it is REALLY brutal if you get unlucky with cards, sickness or don't constantly add purity to normal cards and forced to focus on those -10ish purity cards.

Saw you in the comments talking about difficulty settings and can't wait for that update. 8/10 prototype.

10 days? This looks amazing.

Found a soft lock in browser version (firefox) in the level called Amen hell.

If you die once in the game, restart and die but have 0 movement imput then there is a chance the game will continue to run despite you being dead. Since you can't esc to leave the stage and can't respawn because the game still plays but due to being dead you cannot shoot or move to portals; this is a softlock.

Love this ost for menu.

how do you connect a switch to this game?

Can't jump

Edit: turns out if you press Up Arrow on the pillars in the wizard area you climb them. Maybe put that in the description as it is hard to know that without accidentally softlocking due to that minor thing.

Missed opportunity to make clubs into literal clubs as a replacement for swords.

Hope this isn't abandoned.

TL;DR: the game is a difficulty arms race amongst pro players that either make it harder or easier for future players and it is expected that difficulty will cancel out over time. The game isn't dead as this motivation to make the game harder/easier forces new mechanics to be found and used. Even bugs.

Well yes, the game will naturally continue to become difficult but with the current hardcore players making efforts to make the game easy with other players who make the game difficult, they will naturally create ways to allow players to bypass each other.

Layering blocks on top of eachother makes removal a waste to those who want to make paths AND those who want to destroy easy ways out. It can make walls that block areas and since griefing tends to happen in the early stages and those who want to make it easier discovered that if you collect a building checkpoint, don't build and go to a lower level that you didn't build in, you gain more builds.

Now if you want to grief the lower levels, you first need to waste your builds making it impossible to climb down the tower then are forced to use a minimal amount of blocks to build with. For those who make levels easier, they can undo these attempts at closing areas to make them 1 way in while using the builds to make significantly easier paths.

The ice level is one of the easiest levels because griefers try to go to lower levels which forces them to make many downward paths (beating the game saves your edits to the game). Since those who make the levels easier can always beat the game by skill + making the difficulty easy they can make NUMEROUS changes that get saved.

Of course a DEDICATED griefer with amazing skills (or even hackers) can beat the game with an absurd difficulty but there will always be proplayers (even good hackers) that will undo these changes.

Every block was placed by a player who beat the game before you.

If something seems absurd then it is likely a coordinated effort to make some part of the game hard.

Do like this game with the trolls, misleads and (for a lack of better phrasing) quick time events. Good sokoban styled game! :)

Guess who found a way to DELETE BLOCKS. (No it isn't an invisible solid, yes you can go THROUGH it. It just shows your username where the block gets deleted)

Hard :(

How does one unlock the click radius? After beating the game once nothing happened other than keeping everything and restarting the floors.

Thanks. Impressed you actually managed to make it do-able.

Now it made so difficult, the only people who can beat it probably have hacks. qwq Someone really used time and effort into making the game literally impossible to play unless you have hacks like themselves.

Feel like the character designs imply a lot of your games exist in the same universe.

Even after making a path that allows players to go around the entrance past the ice area. Realised there someone not only made ice impossible unless you use an unintended by of winning BUT IT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BEAT THE GAME.

WHO USES BOTS WITH HACKS JUST TO MAKE A COMMUNITY GAME IMPOSSIBLE TO BEAT? Even after making edits, it is likely the hacker will undo the actions.

Chat you can do wonders when you really put your mind to it. You guys are amazing.

While able to do some of the harder final jumps, making the first stages borderline stupid for newer players is ridiculous.

Did player data reset? For some reason the changes to the map have all been undone.