Ancient Enemy

If you like Solitarica, you will LOVE this game as it is a much better upgrade to Solitarica. (Solitarica also comes as a free app if you ~kinda~ want to demo this game.)

TL;DR - Rather Boring Story (For all His 'Reminiscence' of the past and the five chapters I've completed before deciding this isn't a game for me, we don't actually get to see that past, and the enemies are bland and personality-less even for the corrupted who HAVE a semblance of their old selves.), the gameplay is essentially solitaire charged turn based combat with deck manipulation cards. The Reason I give this a one star is because unless permadeath means no restarting hands, combat becomes this boring mess of savescumming as Restarting Hand until you can get an optimal combo going is incredibly viable, and sure you can argue it isn't how the game was meant to be played buuuut it is there as an option. I also give it this rating as quite frankly the story tries to give us this "Pity the enemy" feeling, despite the fact that a vast majority of the enemies dont actually display any personality, nor does the character seem to know or talk to them. The Mage thus comes off incredibly one note and stale, with the only noteworthy bits of personality being when he is in a non-battle stage remarking on the beauty of nature and his loneliness, a shame these stages don't actually have too charming a view nor any form of communing with world spirits or such.

I played a lot of card games and most of them seem completely detached from the story, where your only issue is optimizing your hand. Here, on the other hand, the cards are nicely interwined with the story (simple but well written), so you know why you have them and can picture what they actually do. The game mechanics may not be overly complicated but still manages to offer certain depth and drew me in to the point where I wanted to play one more encounter. I am surprised I got it for free. If I'd had a chance to try it beforehand, I would have been willing to pay for it.

I got this one as a free giveaway and just started trying it out recently. So far I am really enjoying playing this game. It is similar to the original Puzzle Quest game and Puzzle Quest Galactrix in the sense that you fight enemies through some sort of puzzle game challenge, to advance through the story. In this case you are using playing cards similar to how Solitaire functions, as others have stated in their reviews. Your character gains levels, items, spells, and abilities along the way. I played the Puzzle Quest games when they first came out a long time ago and was happy to find something similar. Others have also mentioned some other similar games that I will go look into as well. I had to remind myself to keep a eye on the time as before I knew it, a hour was gone and I was still highly engaged in the gameplay and story. Someone stated also there there are several chapters which sound great to me. - Good artwork - Interesting story - Fun to play and replay Overall a fantastic game

The visuals and soundtrack are alright. The story isnt that interesting, since it isnt developed in a meaningful way, theres a lot of talking about nothing. Gameplay is fine. You play a solitaire type game where you generate points for attacks and defence, can use skills to either attack the enemy, improve yourself or aid you on the solitaire board. It was amusing, but nothing felt particularly impactful. You seem to have quite a few items, but you wont use a lot of them, since theyre not really cost effective. There is also a character development system, but I cant say it adds much either. Its one of those games you play on the side while listening to something, not much more.