mqstout: The base game was... not very good. It portrays itself as a strategy game, but has some huge, game-dominating RNG elements that you cannot do anything to mitigate. With Legend of Keepers, you're going on a ride, having an experience... not really playing a game.

Unlike FTL, or Slay the Spire, or Monster Train (AKA, good "roguelike" games where the importance of your decisions overpower the randomness in the vast majority [if not all of] the games), the RNG in this game truly does completely dictate your success or not.

Example: If an enemy group spawns with the foe that randomizes the order of your line, you're basically playing that floor entirely randomly. And there's nothing you can do to stop/prevent it.

*Maybe this has been patched out. I only played for a few weeks after release before dropping it in frustration. The game's core elements could be preserved and turned into a fine game, but it did not seem that they wanted to do that.

MischiefMaker: This game clearly states the exact type of heroes you'll be facing before you place a single creature or trap, and all their powers and weaknesses.

If a randomizer is in the lineup, don't place the monsters in the optimum order, and lay off the glass cannon creatures.

It's like in Monster Train, if you draw the final boss who destroys a spell every round, you only have yourself to blame if you go for a build that's hard-countered by that power.