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This still seems to be bugged for me. With only a single 1/1 enemy on the field, I used the bite ability. This killed the enemy but still reduced the skill power to 0. If the description of the skill says that it gets stronger after every use, having it get weaker for any reason seems strange.

Edit: I intentionally tried killing two enemies at the same time to see if that helped, but it still reduced the skill power to 0.

The new Vampire character's bite ability seems to be bugged. It began at 1 damage, and after the first use decreased to 0 damage instead of increasing per the character description. Can't wait to try him out once that's fixed!

Controls feel great! The safe dropped my item off the map :(

This is what a true purist looks like:

Encountered when trying to fight the first ghost:

Thanks for the quick fix!

I also tried to see if there was an end to the demo. Act 6 was kind of tedious (regular beasts had 1.48 million health) but I made it to the Guardian. Unfortunately, his first attack was unavoidable death:

So I guess that's the end of the playtest :)

Looking forward to more updates!

Really neat game! The description on Overhealed Strike probably needs to be reworked to explain that it takes away your overheal to do the damage.

This is a super game! Audio and visuals are well designed and do well to set the mood for the game.

Minor suggestion: I think the Winemaker's combat trait should be updated to read "After taking damage, give another random follower +1/+1 until end of combat". As currently implemented, it seems like the Winemaker cannot give himself the bonus, so rewording the trait for clarity would be helpful.

The Wright doesn't work if you reroll enemy cargo. Is that intentional?

I definitely had fun overall, even if the shop RNG was really frustrating at times.

This turned into a much longer post than I was anticipating! Please take this feedback constructively and not as complaining. I appreciate the time you've put into the game and understand how hard it is to put something you've built out in front of other people. I also recognize that I'm not really offering many solutions with my comments here, so good luck :)

• I'll start with (what I think are) two bugs:
  • In the current experimental build, everyone can hold two items. You can't equip a third, but if you merge to a level 3 (with at least three total items among merged units), the level three unit will keep a third item. It's not displayed on the unit portrait, but is there if you hover. Merging to a level 2 only keeps 2 items from among merged units.
  • If you distill "Book of the True Cell", the resulting distillation says "AT THE START OF EACH BATTLE ROUND Trigger unit's special ability 1 time per phase". This doesn't work as I expected. Based on the description, I expected this to cause the unit's ability to trigger at the beginning of each battle round (as displayed in the counter at the top of the screen). Instead, it only seems to trigger at the start of round 1. I'm not sure what the reference to phase is here, but it could maybe be clarified.
• With two starting item slots, the Disposable/Manifester combo (Disposable in hold slot with Manifester distillation(s) equipped) becomes way too powerful. I already thought it was really good with just one item slot.
• I feel like Disposable, Trickster, Selfless, and Featureless are in a pretty good place.
  
• Summons are okay at the beginning, but very underpowered in the late game
  • With only 3 units activating abilities on death, Underestimated basically has a 37.5% chance of being useful. It feels really bad to spawn a 1/1 Featureless or Disposable from a level 3 Underestimated. Because of this it also doesn't really help to trigger her ability multiple times.
  • Hermits are also not great. Even with a couple of the indulgences that give +1/+0 to summons, the skeletons just don't do enough damage to be helpful in the late game.
• I have found Plunderer to also be underpowered. You have to buff his health to give his ability a chance to trigger. But if you have a way to buff his health, you're probably also buffing  his attack at the same time. This usually makes his ability a "win more" at best. Maybe if his ability buffed less but it was permanent?
• I have literally never used Manifester other than to distill him for the Disposable. The items don't seem powerful enough on their own (other than maybe Taunter's Headpiece) to make him worthwile.
• Not being able to discard locked units is frustrating and greatly reduces the utility of Disposable (and the +2 gold indulgence). I recognize that this is probably a limitation of how you handle units moving between zones programmatically, but if there was a way to fix this it would be great.

I did get to see the thing :) Definitely a surprise!

The "Bash" card seems broken. The text says "Deal 2 dice damage", but it actually only does 2 damage every time. Bulwark and Shield appear to be rolling dice properly.

That did it!

I tried again here, but it's still not possible to get 100% completion :) I do get the cutscene after achieving total victory in 3-1, but it never unlocks as complete:

It appears that I can't currently get the Total Victory credit for 3-1. Not sure if this is because there is nothing past this level or if it's a glitch. Otherwise, very fun game!

Won with only 3 weapons :)