Banners of Ruin

Excellent deck builder!

I wasn't able to play it for long enough to really assess the gameplay, but... * parts of the interface are too small to read properly on a relatively small desktop screen. You can change the resolution, but there are only two options and they're almost the same- there is no option to scale the UI. * Hovering over weapons in certain circumstances causes their card to appear off-screen so that it can't be seen. * The same key (Esc) is used to end certain encounters and bring up the menu. * The music is very repetitive. * The tutorial has a bug where the last message persists for much longer than intended, making it impossible to click a button to decline a new card. This in about 15 minutes of gameplay. Maybe I was very unlucky, but that doesn't inspire confidence. I don't think I'll play any more.

I don't mind RNG and grind in a card-battler, that's fine. The problem is this is someone who fancied having a go at designing a game without having the humility to learn how things are done, or the genius to pull it off right first time. For example if you switch weapon: (I) you can't switch back unless you are lucky enough to draw an encounter that opens the inventory screen -and- wish to use it on switching the weapon back. (II) you might not have enough Stamina to use the weapon at all in combat. (III) the cards from the old weapon remain in the deck unless (like for switching weapons) you draw an encounter. And if all that somehow comes right, the weapon only does anything when its card is drawn. tldr: generally the player isn't control of anything. You're more in control playing solitaire

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How can you rate 1star if the game isnt broken? Well the cards are very boring, the combat rewards are so bad its better to just skip it so it doesnt water down good cards in your deck. The gold is hard to get and you end up playing with 2character party until you get lucky and buy more crew and then die shortly after or you die before because you fight vs 6enemies. Further you encounter enemies that have 200 ehp. where you are at EXACT same power level. So you start as weak 2character party, get few cards get few gold and enemies are 30 ehp. Much later you are exactly the same except enemies are 200 ehp. I didnt passed that but even further its probably 300 ehp 400ehp enemies vs your 2 or maybe 4 crew. Also its extremely grindy to get xp and get those boring unlockables for next playththrough.