Not a fan of the "Danger Level" game mechanic.

The more you run around and fight enemies, the more enemies gain damage Also the longer fights go, the more the danger level increases. (and increase dmg)

There are lots of other ways to limit encounters (and battle length), without this mechanic.

There seem to be a ton of cards that are "trash cards". Not finding the game all that fun... I should have refunded.

Genre - "deck builder, turn-based combat, roguelite."

Lasted 2.5 hours.

Abandoned because: Every run feels the same. The game lacks character. Progression feels non-existent. You can change your opening hand of 12 cards, one card at a time. It just simply fails. Everything that makes Slay the Spire great is missing here. And, in honesty, it's just boring. No reason to continue.

I'm really not impressed with Deep, In the Forest in its current implementation and I recommend people wait for some serious revisions before purchasing. I'm choosing not to refund because I feel like there's some promise here, and I'd like the developer to keep working on it.

The core mechanics feel clunky and non-intuitive. Combos could use some better UI cues. Optional combo effects and things like discard are visually jarring and pull you out of the flow. The whole discard for energy system isn't terrible but also isn't great, and aside from one tiny tutorial screen at the beginning it's SUPER easy to miss the mechanic entirely. The inventory system is bad. I hate having some card rewards get put straight in my deck while others require me to move an item from one inventory box to another. At least give us an option to take an item reward and put it straight into our active inventory.

The game balance isn't all that great. I HATE that the starting deck comes with two economy cards that are basically wounds in any challenging fights. Speaking of challenging fights, the fog of war is a terrible design choice. It makes about as much sense as putting it in Slay the Spire would. It's super easy to put yourself on a suicidal course and not even realize it until 10+ minutes later. That's not fun. I feel like a lot of the balance issues, at least for early-game, could be resolved by adding a single extra card to your base hand draw.

Deep, In the Forest is a card collecting rogue like in the same vein as "Slay the Spire". It uses very similar mechanics as Slay the Spire but makes enough changes that it feels different.

It is rare that I feel like I can rate a game after playing it for less than an hour, but from other reviews it seems early impressions hold. There is a good concept here, with some solid ideas and a really charming art style (update: the art style changed completely sometime after I refunded... it seems pretty ugly now actyally) but the balance just feels way off. In the dozen or so battles I had in the game I had 3 I could basically not win (note these were "normal" battles not hard or anything) about 8 that I could basically not lose and only 1 where I actually had to think and make some plays. I don't have much advice on how to balance this game but it is clear to me there is some more play testing that needs to be done, as it is VERY easy to get into situations where there are no meaningful decisions (either instant win or instant lose).

This game still feels early access to me (as of May 2020), and unless you are willing to just accept that you are at the mercy of RNG I cannot recommend. Note even the reviews that like this game say they look forward to more updates after what seems like not much play. Unless there are some major updates or a lot of tweaks, steer clear.

This game has one or more achievements, that could only unlock during Early Access.
Refunded.

This game simply is too expensive for what you get:
Bad graphics and atmosphere (personal oppinion), an unbalanced gameplay of mediocre quality (personal oppinion) and EA content are charged for the price of the game DITF is trying to reach, Slay the Spire, which is obviously MUCH more refined and complete...
Edit: In the meantime, the price has been reduced drastically, so that last complaint is not valid anymore...

I honestly dont even know i i would buy the game at ANY price, when there are simply better alternatives, but as it currently stands (last tried it in march 20), this is an obvious thumbs down...

I had a ton of fun with deep in the forest it's got a nice mechanic of you can burn a card once per turn to gain 1 more mana gain each turn and the burned card stays gone so you can thin your deck during the battle and gain advantage it's awesome and makes you think and make hard choices. Some downsides is that the game doesn't have a mechanic to see your deck, discard, or burned cards during battle so it can be a big pain not know what cards you have left. (my first run i burned all my attack cards without realizing it)

I understand the point of the enemies scaling as you fight or else you would farm money and exp off the first enemy forever with no downside.

I think the bosses can be a little too difficult by doing too much damage I was only able to beat the game by getting lucky stacking items so i was gaining 20+ armor per turn and was still getting hit by the boss by a lot; One did 40 damage per turn.

The people i spared helping me out at the king fight was awesome. Down with that evil adviser

All in all I'm highly glad i picked up this game on sale :D

I'm a bit pained to have to put a thumb down, because it's an honest effort, but I try to review all my games and I can't recomend this one.

It's a deckbuilder game, a very trending genre, you know what it's about. It doesn't play in the same category as the big hitters of the genre like Slay the spire. What differentiates it is that the game lacks variation. You won't find differnet colors like in Magic The Gathering or different characters with different strategies for each character like in StS.
Here you only have one character and the different strategies and combos are rather limited.
Yet the game isn't that bad, it doesn't try to be as big as the aforementioned games. You can grind a bit between runs, which makes it more of a one-shot game than a game you can play forever. It could have been acceptable as such.

There are different types of cards and you can combo cards between each other depending on their categories. You have to manage an inventory that gives you perks or cards.

The first problem I met is that the interface is really slow. The mouse moves very slowly across the screen. The attack anmations are also too slow. The enemies talk before most of their attacks which makes the game even slower.

The theme isn't that great, anthropomorphic animals aren't really my cup of tea and the story isn't interesting.

Still I could have recomended it if it did the job correctly, what makes it a fail for me is that one of the 3 first bosses is way too difficult to beat because he spawns copies of himself every time you play two cards. The copies are very frail and will disappear as soon as they get hit, generally you can clear them all with a "mass strike", which is easy to do, but they still can hit you as hard as the main boss if you can't destroy them before the enemy's turn. We're talking 5 enemies dealing 25+ damage each (when your max health generally is in the 80s).
You have to constantly remember if the card you're playing is even or odd, because the very card that destroys the clones could be the one that triggers him to spawn new clones just after your turn!
This is way too much to deal with. Coupled with the fact that you need to play a bit more than one hour to reach each boss, I can't keep going....

I had to give this game a couple chances but now that I've figured out the systems (like converting cards to energy, building combos, and remembering to use your inventory), which aren't that clear at first, I think this game is really smart. It's rough around the edges, but worth playing

It's a fun little game. It's not going to have as much deck-building depth/synergy as some other games like STS. However, it has a fun atmosphere and overall concept. Well-done for a 2 dev team. I wasn't a huge fan of the danger level mechanic in general, but there is an easy mode that does make the game more manageable for those that are struggling. Recommended to grab on sale if you like this kind of game.