Tainted Grail: Conquest

Three of my top fave genre's are: Grim dark, Rogue-like, and Deck-building. Tainted Grail Digital combines all three of these with wonderful twist of their own. Not only is this a re-imagination of the lore that came with the board game of it. The developers added their own unique vision to it.For any fan of at least two of those genres this game offers something fun. The Conquest (Roguelike) is the one most developed for now and has already given me many hours of fun game time. The Campaign has been completely remade from scratch compared to the alpha demo and you can see major improvement in development in less than 6 months. In those 6 months they not only remade the Campaign, they also added Conquest. While this game is currently in Early Access, as a backer of the board game (which I enjoyed massively) I personally see a good and unique game coming out of this in the long term.

If you liked Slay the Spire and/or Darkest Dungeon this IS for you A great game with: -Huge replayability -Great soundtrack -Lots of classes to choose from, with totally different strategies -Small but interesting story -Great voice over Worth every penny :)

It's in early access stage so keeping this in mind. I was hooked right away! After a few days This is what I hope they will address before launch: - Conquest mode is very enjoyable but it does not scale well at all. 1-3 is all fine and dandy, 4 is getting hard and 5 I could not beat. - There is very little content so it needs much more but what was here already I found quite addictive and immersive, The atmosphere is fantastic, I love the music! - Without torch it's not pleasant on my eyes and I even can get a bit dizzy from it. Not good! The Graphics overall are nice enough but this weird effect is just no fun.

A lot has been covered in other revieyw. I want to praise the controller implementation as well as the ability to increase the size of the interface -- this is perfect to play from the couch with a TV. Other than that, excellent game.

It is not "as good as slay the spire" Great! We got that out of the way! However maybe you did play StS already and look for another Deckbuilder? You should give this a shot. The atmosphere is grim dark and in this genre, that is rather refreshing. I mentioned flaws: The Game feels a little janky in some places. You can keep walking into objects while on the map wasting time and candles (more later), necessary information about your enemies IS displayed but not very clearly. It is also a little on the long side for completing a run (well over 1,5 hours) you can save your progress though. There are MANY upgrade systems at work here. All of them work and are interesting. You need candles! They provide you with additional cards. If lightlevel is high they grant positive effects. If it is low they gonna harm you. 9 characters?!? More like 3 characters with meaningful variations within 3 archetypes! Still pretty damn good. You will need the many, many meta progression upgrades to succeed. So your first few runs will be tough and destined to fail. The writing is pretty good. Most of it is voice acted. Ranging from good to... well... not so good ;) Never horrible though. The overall story is intriguing but if you are like me and prefer mechanics you can safely ignore it. A lot of effort has been put into this game for sure. and it shows. If you are into deckbuilding games give this a shot. You won't regret it!