Knights of the Card Table

I quickly lose interest with mobile games but this game has more than kept my interest. I have played for a few hours and wondered if I would burn through the game in a day but I am happy to say there is still so much more content to go. I do have just a few nit picky issues. First, I wish enemies who do more damage had different color cards or damage symbols just to catch your eye. Second, I wish you could go back and forth between items you have unlocked. Most items seem to be an upgrade from the previous iteration. But there is a shield that has a bit less of stats but gives you an extra heart and if I had known I couldn’t go back to it I wouldn’t of upgraded my shield. Finally, I would love to possibly see more customization in the future. I noticed that my coin amount is well beyond what I need to unlock dungeons. Different colors or anything would be greatly appreciated. I would like to say even with bringing up the issues above, these are just my hopes for the game but still love it for what and how it is. I enjoy it so much that I want more and more.

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So. This game is adorable, the writing is clever, the music is really charming, but the balancing badly needs to be reworked. For example I have never had to save up to buy anything after the first weapon, and at this point I have hundreds of pops and hundreds of thousands of gold. There is no incentive for maximizing the currency you earn since the game just basically throws them at you. Secondly, many of the cool features from rolling dice of the same number or getting critical hits rarely matters since enemy hp is so low. Similarly, the low player hp means that if you die, it’s almost always a single hit from one of the double damage enemies rather than player error, which can one shot you from full health. I like the idea of having multiple weapons equipped that use different dice, but there is almost never a strategic advantage to playing with more than one weapon. The spells should be looked at too. Other than freeze and blessing, they mostly feel like a waste of space so I spend them as soon as they show up. Anyway, my point is that I really wish the mechanics worked a little better, because the game has SOOO much potential to be a really fascinating and deep romp. Honestly fixing the currency balance and doing a blanket increase for pc and npc hit points would fix most of the problems.

Love this game. The art style and polish are great. The core mechanic is fun and it’s nice how it ramps up slowly. I do have some suggestions for improvement: the game is fun but at times feels too easy. Too much health is offered and I’ve breezed through the first 50 levels or so with only a couple of fails. Mobile games in general shouldn’t be too punishing in my opinion but a little more challenge would be cool. The expansion island challenges are fun though. Also there seems to be a coin imbalance as I have way too much gold and nothing to spend it on. More customization would be great. And I didn’t know you could swap weapons or characters. It would be nice if there was more strategy in terms of characters and equipment. (For example, a dungeon with only boss monsters, a dungeon with no health, etc.). Would love to see the devs improve on the base game because it is super fun!

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This game requires you to agree to privacy policy which requires the forfeiture of your data and privacy (IP address, GPS location, various account numbers, etc.) in order to play it, as you might expect a free-to-play game to do. You cannot play this game you paid for, unless you agree to this. No premium single-player game should require you to agree to the forfeiture of your data (gps location data? Really?) in oder to play it after you’ve already purchased it. I shouldn’t be expected to give you the sort of data your privacy policy is demanding AND pay for your game. I’ll happily retract this review when the forfeiture of one’s privacy becomes opt-in or is otherwise not required in order for this game to be played. It would be one thing if this were simply a google-analytics type thing that could be opted out of with a check-box, and I’ve happily paid for plenty of those sorts of games because I understand how beneficial that sort of data could be to a developer when gathered ethically. Forcing the player to submit this information in order to play after they’ve already made the purchase is not the ethical approach.

Let me start by saying that I completed the last dungeon in the game today, and I never finish games. I loved this one and it is absolutely worth the price. That being said, there are a few issues. I’ve beaten the entire game and only unlocked two of the playable characters despite having TONS of gold and popsicles. What are the other characters there for if it is impossible to unlock them? Also, nothing happens when you finish the last dungeon. The game needs some kind of ending. Finally, this game is just screaming for different modes and challenges to add some replayability; I hope more good stuff is to come in future updates.