Your worst fear is the audience’s indifference. Your best weapon is a dazzling amusement. Your artists are your army. Behold, the circus came to town!About the GameRoll up! Roll up! Come and take charge of your very own run-down circus and navigate a uniquely American form of entertainment, full o...
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Description
Your worst fear is the audience’s indifference. Your best weapon is a dazzling amusement. Your artists are your army. Behold, the circus came to town!
About the Game
Roll up! Roll up! Come and take charge of your very own run-down circus and navigate a uniquely American form of entertainment, full of bizarre folklore, brutal crime, and social inequality as you battle to establish yourself amongst industry giants Ringling Bros., P.T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill:
Build your troupe, manage your circus camp, explore Gilded Age America, and amaze your audience to become the tycoon of an entertainment empire the likes of which the world has never seen!
Explore Gilded Age America
Dive into a story set during the dying days of the Wild West where history mingles with magical realism and ethnic folklore. Listen to an atmospheric soundtrack inspired by classic circus music and American country & folk as you travel to 90 cities and towns across 4 vast regions of the continental US. Encounter mythical creatures from such as the Wendigo and Bigfoot alongside historical figures including Susan B. Anthony, Nikola Tesla, and Queen Victoria. Play your cards right and you might be able seize the crown of greatest showman from P.T. Barnum himself!
Amaze the Audience
Deliver a perfect show in a special card duel between you and the audience. Beat their boredom with an arsenal of performances and tricks presented on over 200 beautifully hand-illustrated cards. Strategize carefully and gauge the mood of the crowd before playing your hand; what provokes cheers in the deep South might provoke jeers in the industrialised North!
Build Your Troupe
As the budding tycoon of a travelling circus your success depends on the variety of weird and wonderful acts you can get into the ring and the range of spectacular feats they can perform! With over 15 unique performers to recruit, and 32 audience types from across gilded age America to amaze, you’ve got your work cut out as you try to create the greatest show on earth!
Manage Your Circus Camp
As a showman you will have to travel light and fast, managing your resources and building the camp that supports your show as it grows, enabling you to drop jaws from coast to coast. With 8 different circus wagons, 18 unique upgrades available between them and over 100 modifications for the circus caravan as a whole, there’s a range of options to keep the show on the rails as diverse and varied as the performers in it!
What The Amazing American Circus has to offer?:
Become a legend! Save a run-down circus, gather a troupe of performers, and dare to defy the greatest showmen on earth - P.T Barnum, Buffalo Bill, and more!
Recruit and train over 15 different types of circus artists
Take part in exciting battles on the circus arena using the beautifully illustrated collectible cards
Upgrade your circus caravan thanks to different types of wagons offering over 100 possible modifications
Meet both historical and fictional characters deeply embedded in American folklore, such as John D. Rockefeller, Susan B. Anthony, or Nikola Tesla
Immerse yourself in a story taking place during the turbulent era of the fading Wild West and enter the beautiful and dark world of Native American folklore and the immigrant populace
Listen to a unique soundtrack inspired by classic circus music and American country & folk
The Amazing American Circus in numbers:
200+ hand-illustrated cards
Recruit and train over 15 different types of circus artists, among them mimes, strongmen, and acrobats
8 different circus wagons to upgrade (18 unique upgrades altogether)
32 different types of audience, whom you have to attract and entertain
Over 100 modifications and upgrade options for your circus caravan
90 cities and towns to visit
21 story-related side quests
10 Grand Finale finisher actions
16 Misfits to collect in Bizarre Baazaar wagon
4 distinct geographical regions - travel across the American continent
4 powerful opponents to defeat (one per region) - the legendary P.T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill, Queen Victoria, and more...
1 but epic adventure akin to Baz Luhrman’s musicals, Ennio Morricone’s westerns, and the classic road movies
60 minutes of a soundtrack inspired by country and folk music from different parts of the USA
I've played card games like this before but I don't understand anything to do with what is goin on with this game. The tutorial just says click this do that without understanding what the jargon means or what the values diplayed means or what effects what. It's very frustrating and just has me yelling WTF at my monitor alot. I got the achievements but just by fluke and who knows. It's obviously not ready for prime time so I hope things get better once a few patches and more instructions on the gamelplay are published. I pre-ordered this so I do want to like and enjoy it. It looked relaxing and strategic at the same time from the previews but I didn't get that feeling on first play. Sad that i didn't know to upgrade this or that before winning against one of the freaks and loosing the ability to get it forever thus making my first save useless and now I just have to start over again. very confusing.
I spent almost 24 hours in this game, completed all main as well as side quests and made it to the final. Yet I got stuck. Queen Victoria turned out to be a unimpressible cow. Who would have thought?
Probably I trained wrong artists or should have chosen better traits. I don't know. And this is exactly my main issue with this game. It's not very player-friendly. The tutotial is brief and doesn't explain to you mechanics that much.
The Amazing American Circus is also very random so you can't be sure if you have good hand or not. But I guess it's pretty standard for card games.
Overall I liked the games's atmosphere and tone. Maybe because I'm a big fan of steampunk and Edwardian era. But if you are indefferent to those themes and circus, you may safely skip this one.
I finished the game in about 20 hours.
The theme and atmosphere in the game is really great and unique.
The game is very strategic and there are many different types of characters to recruit so u can play around with the cards and try different things.
I hope there will be a "The Amazing American Circus 2"
A rarely seen "golden age of circus" (ie. industrial age/late 19th cen) Americana theme that doesn't go steampunk or is particularly harsh/satirical on it.
It's kind of replaceable but they really did try to embrace it and make it atmospheric.
The setting dressing is probably the best part of the game by far.
Gameplay is standardish deckbuilder roguelike like Slay the Spire.
But despite it being pretty standard, even with the tutorial it can get really confusing due to its use of different terms that are not intuitive at all.
And for some reason, its quick right click inspect only explains SOME of the terms.
So if you are going to play this game - PLEASE copy down this quick guide and keep it at hand until you are very familiar with them:
focus - player hp
impress - player damage
vitality - player mana (cost)
stash - duration/stack
ignore - shield
boredom - enemy hp
sneer - enemy damage
pantomime - player reflect
scrap - remove(d) card from deck
max hand size is 10
Balance is pretty bad - there are reusable cards that give you mana AND draw cards. Most attacks deal ~4 damage per mana to ~10 with some setup. Ring of Fire deals 20 for 1 mana. Sure you need to flip it to use it again, but there's a card that can flip all cards for 1 mana.
It kinda tries to balance that by having many unique heroes, a lot having a few broken cards each. Too bad you can have multiple copies of a card or even hero.
Then you find that +dam doesn't increase the damage. It increases the damage NUMBER. What's the difference? Well, if the card says deal 1 damage per hand in hand, +3 makes it 4 per card.
There's also various bugs such as game not loading correctly upon going back to main menu, needing a full restart. HP sometimes not displaying correctly after an attack. Glossary only for current members and not all seen.
Just a general lack of polish in many places.
Overall, only would recommend it for the setting. It's not a bad game, just not very good.
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