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Visual artifact: if you have the gold bar, then instead of giving the “hand is full” message, clicking to draw a card will flash the gold bar and not give any message. (It doesn’t give gold, it just flashes the gold bar.)

I find it frustrating that it isn’t possible to eliminate more categories of items from the chest.

I appreciate that if you rush scrolls until you get all six spells, you can stop getting scrolls.

I’d love to have a way to stop getting weapons; for instance, perhaps you shouldn’t get weapons if there are no enemies and the time-to-next-enemy is more than a certain threshold? Or, for that matter, I’d happily pick a chest upgrade that gave no weapons.

Found it, thank you.

I played that level many many times, and then one time I played it and got the hammer within 2 seconds of starting the level. Very curious what the conditions are, and if they’re something other than just purely random.

Thanks for the fun game.

Tons of fun!

I found all but one of the secret weapons. Any hints as to where the last one might be?

I have the same feeling about that boss. It’s possible to find specific relics to work around it, but in the absence of those relics, it seems far too punishing.

Note, for instance, that Balatro has bosses like “don’t use the same hand twice” or “only use one hand type” or “all face cards are debuffed”, which can punish certain types of builds, but it doesn’t have anything like “all enhanced cards are debuffed” or “cards can’t give you mult”.

Fun!

Minor typo in chapter one: is vs are (“dice” is plural), “there is some dice” should be “there are some dice”.

Often, there is more than one word that perfectly fits the given blanks, but the game is looking only for one of them. So, it becomes a game of “guess what word the game is thinking of” rather than “guess a word that perfectly fits here”.

By way of example, there is more than one four-letter word for “xxxx tales of”.

Another example:

(It was looking for “face”.)

The definition for “offer” is entirely incorrect; it does not have the connotation of violent action unless added to a phrase like “offer violence” or “offer threats”. In the absence of that, it has no such connotation.

Really minor UI detail: when an enemy kills you, the sound of them hitting you should play as the screen-wipe starts, not just the big musical sting.

That sounds ideal.

Relatedly, eventually you might want an “endless” mode (which makes it very clear you’ve won and you can stop at any time).

Generally speaking, I would argue that good games have possibilities like this, but balance them so that they’re not so easy that they become a dominant strategy. Right now, they’re a dominant strategy.

Fun! Would be nice to have some easy way to submit dictionary words it doesn’t recognize, perhaps with a citation to something standard like Merriam-Webster.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chav https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chad

Even at its lowest point, it doesn’t seem possible to jump onto the moving platform. Even at the beginning of the level, before the platform has moved up, I tried jumping on it to see and while it visually looks like I’ve cleared it, the height doesn’t seem to be enough to get on top of it.

That’s awesome. Was it actually infinite? How did you get the money to keep placing that room?

Bottomless Pit doesn’t seem to fill a row for the purposes of Bath: I finished the bottom row by placing Bottomless Pit, and the Bath in the bottom row didn’t activate.

Trying to figure out how to get past this level:

I’ve managed to get this far, but I don’t see how to get further:

I don’t know what the best place to report bugs on the published version is; I have the Switch version, and can’t use the Steam forums.

I found a bug in the true ending path. Since Itch doesn’t have spoiler markers, I’ll try to describe it in a spoiler-free fashion; happy to provide a more detailed description if there’s some other way of submitting a bug report.

After time moves forwards, there’s a low-contrast (green on green) hard-to-read text box. I quickly took a screenshot to investigate later, then because I couldn’t read it, I tried doing the thing you can do earlier in the game to read secret messages. I opened the menu to do that, changed that setting, it didn’t make a difference, then I saw the credits start to roll and didn’t want them to roll with that setting still set. So, I opened the menu again, and it opened under the credits. I tried to blindly navigate to change the setting again, but I think I accidentally hit the “main menu” option instead. From that state, trying to resume the game (with “play” rather than “new game”) resulted in the game trying to load indefinitely, freezing at 90%.

(I did, ultimately, figure out what the green-on-green message was, when I went back to examine my screenshot and zoom in enough to just barely make out the text and then decode it. And I went back and played through the true ending again to let the credits roll and get the final achievement.)

Thanks for an exceptional game! I hope this bug report is useful and gives you enough information to reproduce the problem on the Switch version.

Beat the final boss with zero health loss without looping:

Victory on Ascension 6! Pretty happy with how the deck turned out.

A couple of ideas for higher ascensions and higher bonuses:

• Ascension: All enemies gain 1 block on every turn.
• You could add one more card to the normal shop, and then have an Ascension that removes one card from the shop. This also means players get to see more things early on.
• Ascension: The starting curse no longer exhausts when played.
• Ascension (possibly a last ascension): One less starting HP.
• Bonus: gain one random common relic. (You’d want to divide the relics into at least common/rare for this.)
• Bonus: one extra freeze per game.

Just realized that enemy shield doesn’t seem to work that way: if an enemy has shields, and you don’t attack, the shield remains next turn.

Sometimes restoring a saved game results in an empty hand and only an “end turn” button:

Ascension bug still exists in 0.2.2; I played a game on Ascension 6, lost, and when I went to start again, there were no ascensions unlocked.

The lexicopedia doesn’t seem to be scrollable. Mouse scrolling, clicking or dragging the scrollbar, and clicking or dragging the content, all did not work.

Thank you for a really fun game; I’m enjoying playing it, and playtesting it.

Interesting idea. A few bugs:

The game timer should not be running in the background while initial explanation dialog is showing.

If you pause the game, then switch away from the tab and switch back, the game unpauses; it should not unpause until explicitly hitting resume.

If you pause the game, and hit “Quit”, the game just resumes. If you pause and hit “Quit” again, then it quits.

Please consider pausing while the shop is displayed.

The explanation dialog doesn’t say anything about how to hit enemies; it says hitting q “gives you a set of attacks and the number is based on how you roll”. I was moving around hitting q and trying to figure out why nothing was happening. Didn’t realize that the game requires the mouse to aim; would be helpful to have that in the tutorial, not just the bottom of the itch description. (Would also be awesome to be able to play with just keyboard.)

On mobile, with a lot of cards in hand, with the cards partially overlapping, if I touch in just the right spot it’s possible to play two cards at once.

I just confirmed that if I play the cards slowly, waiting for each one to disappear before I play the next, the error never occurs. Your testing needs to include playing cards as fast as you can click/touch. :)

I‘m not yet fully satisfied with the card movement, too. Do you think the card disappearing effect was a step in the right direction?

EDIT: originally wrote a comment that mischaracterized the animations, rewrote it.

The feeling as the cards fly into the enemy before going to the discard feels good.

The way they get drawn and discarded feels good.

The “phantom card” in the hand that dissolves while the real card moves feels wrong, compared to many other games I’ve played with hands of cards. The fact that it’s a distinct object, while the card itself flies off, feels off compared to everything being based of the card itself.

Got that while playing a series of the zero-cost two-gold or two-damage cards. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Once I got that, refreshing the page and trying to restart the game had it stay on the screen that says “Running…” forever and never start. Eventually that stopped happening, but it happened several times in a row after getting the crash.

Just confirmed that I can reliably reproduce the same crash by playing the zero-cost two-gold and zero-cost two-damage cards in a loop. And afterwards, refreshing has the same result: stuck on the “Running…” screen.

This is delightful.

I’m missing one of the 15 cats, and have been over every square of the map. :(

I think I figured out how to reproduce the problem. Click the upgrade card, then quickly click the card you want to upgrade while the upgrade card is not yet in the discard, then click the upgraded card to play it while things are still moving to the discard. That seems to reliably make the end-turn button stay disabled.

Beat Ascension 1, got “Ascension 1 unlocked” again, no Ascension 2. :(

Nit: if a card like the Chest can’t draw two cards (because there aren’t two cards in the discard), you shouldn’t get gold from Ingot for cards you don’t actually draw.

Ah. Similar to block in slay the spire? That makes sense; I just didn’t expect it because the shield card costs two energy and also exhausts, which made me expect that it would be a very powerful effect.

Before (entire deck in hand):

After:

Final boss, zero damage, first-turn kill.

(This only unlocked Ascension 1, because of the bug mentioned in https://itch.io/post/15621563 .)