Iris and the Giant

its mostly another indie game focused on depression >again< but it goes slow with it, it does makes you feel grief or some steps to help yourself or others around you. The sound design is so marvelous i am mad others games doesnt grounds their maps as good as this, its both relaxing but also fits wayyyy too well with the textured paper look of the whole thing. it falls more on the basic side of card games because there aint as much cool stuff you can do compared to other ones but its game thats supposed to be short not that much replayable, it gives you a few points to keep going and when you are near finishing the whole amount of cards for just 1 campaing you are deep enough to be able to finish it. made me think quite a lot but also remembered me what else i could do. i wished there were other games as lazer focused as this one even if this is still kinda buggy (see some of the other reviews to know which bugs). i technically only played half of it which the main story is the kid, while the other is her father. i didnt particularly got much of the references it did or even why it grounded itself on mythology besides of some spoiler reasons on the story of the kid, but i really liked how properly good designed were both the enemies patterns and the stages. whoever wants to do a card game by god put proper sound design like this one on your game.

I enjoyed this game. I beat it on normal in about 2 and 1/2 hours. The mechanics are fun and I felt the game to be pretty balanced. Losing by running out of cards can kind of suck though. I wasn't a big fan of the story. I don't think the characters are introduced well because of the quick nature of roguelikes. It's probably difficult to do some kind of meaningful story within the genre because people likely want to restart quickly. Watching the same 3-sentence cutscenes doesn't really help me develop the characters on my own, and it ends up feeling out of place. Fortunately, the story mostly takes the backseat, and you can skip all story if you want. I liked the art style of the game and the music was pleasant. I got this for free, but I would recommend picking it up on sale for $5 or so.

I really liked the game despite it being a rogue game, but it was buggy when i first started playing it and had to come back to it after they patched it. I was finally able to finish it, coming back to it because the roguelike runs were very short, and a "successful" failure allowed you to carry over rewards into the next run, which never felt like a complete waste. The annoying, recurring monologuing was tiring, but I don't think it would have ever stopped me from wanting to see the final cutscene.

A sweet deckbuilder roguelite with some unusual mechanics and a very original ambience. I recommend it

I dig this game. The rogue-lite deckbuilder is one of my favorite genres and this game has a nice take on it. The story, while not a huge part of the experience overall, it also moving and relatable.