Overrogue

Everything in this review will assume you've played Slay the Spire since it is similar. If you haven't yet, it is a roguelike card combat game where you advance through a set of stages of increasing difficulty, adding cards and treasures to your deck along the way. 1) Disgaea-ish setting w/ plot. The story is pretty average, but you can turn it off completely if you want. 2) The enemies have less interesting gimmicks, but the cards themselves are more fun overall and easier to set up/manage even as you unlock more of them. Also though you can draw more, you only have a max hand of 5 cards no matter what. 3) Instead of playing a deck to unlock cards, you just get coins and can use a gacha to unlock from whatever set you want 4) From what I've seen so far (on 3rd deck of 5) energy source treasures & cards have been severely nerfed compared to Slay the Spire and are either one time or need to be specifically built around to be useful. 5) Easier to heal yourself in general using the formation change function Definitely easier than Slay the Spire but I like it more so far just because the decks feel more fun to use IMO.

Gameplay wise, it is basically the same as Slay the Spire besides the fact you control 3 toons that share a common deck (of 5 types) but have their own stats. The main difference is that the game structure around it is more... mobile rpg like? You unlock cards mainly by a gacha spin rather than just achievements using ingame currency you gain from playing. There's a daily bonus, and in the mobile version, you can purchase rare currency (that you can grind slowly) There's a story which I agree is fairly disgaea like in both the plot and style with rpgmaker-like maps. Characters gain stats with EXP from the dungeon (reset per run), and you can grind to gain boosts per deck to make things easier (you can turn these off in a special option but note this makes the game much harder) Balance wise, it is much easier once you unlock some of the more useful cards in each deck. Probably most will win most of their runs and only a couple end or post game bosses need any specific strategies. There's quite a few dungeons (12 base + 2 post, with 10 difficulty each), but most are pretty similar. You'll play around 30-40 in the story, each roughly taking 30-1hr. Very much designed to be played in spurts. Overall, it is a basic and fairly relaxed take on a Deck Builder Roguelike, that can be pretty fairly described as Disgaea rpgmaker Slay the Spire. 3* for the base and +.5 for being polished, competent with no major bugs besides one where it sometimes doesn't close properly and you need to force close it.