Forward: Escape the Fold, is a card-based roguelike that delivers a compact, engaging dungeon-crawling experience. The game challenges players to navigate through procedurally generated levels filled with enemies, treasures, and various items.

Pros:
- Engaging Gameplay Mechanics: The game’s card-based system is straightforward yet offers depth, requiring strategic decisions to navigate through enemies and collect items.
-High Replay Value: With procedurally generated levels and multiple modes, including a challenge mode and a harder difficulty, the game provides plenty of replayability. Each run feels unique, encouraging players to try different strategies and characters​.
- Atmospheric Pixel Art and Soundtrack: The pixel art, while minimalistic, is charming and accompanied by an engaging soundtrack that enhances the dungeon-crawling experience..

Cons:
- Lack of Depth in Story: The game does not offer much in terms of narrative. There’s minimal background information on characters and the dungeon’s lore, which might leave players desiring more context and story progression​ ​.
- Occasional Imbalanced Difficulty: Some runs can start with a setup that makes progression nearly impossible, leading to unavoidable early deaths.
- Basic Visuals: While the pixel art has its charm, the visuals are quite basic and might not appeal to everyone.​.

Conclusion:
Forward: Escape the Fold is a bite-sized roguelike that excels in delivering quick, strategic gameplay with high replayability. For fans of the genre, it's a worthwhile, albeit short, adventure.

Rating:
3/5 card pair!

Quite a good roguelike card-based game, nice loop and challenging but fair. I don't have what it takes to complete a game like this but I enjoyed by time with it

It's a fun game and well worth the time you spend on it.

I wish there were steam achievements for this, though.

One of my favorite games. Minimalist gameplay, great sound. Bought it twice (on Steam and mobile).

It's a cool, small game, but it's clear that it's only a stepping stone for something bigger, like somebody making a test first and then using that knowledge to make something really good.

It's not super deep, and you won't get a lot of gameplay out of it, but if you have one or two days to kill some time and just have some fun, it's a nice roguelike card game.

Super fun game, whenever I play it I just get sucked in for what feels like days.

A very solid card battler mixed with roguelike. If I was to recommend a card-based roguelike game to someone that has never tried one before, this is the title I'd go with. Several characters to choose from, each of them feeling unique, great graphics, and easy to understand gameplay. Well, yeah it took me a little bit to really get the hang of it, but I did eventually. It is really well made, the gameplay loop can easily pull you in and have you hooked on playing for awhile.

I do wish there was another way to unlock the characters as opposed to beating the correct area with the previous character, as that's a method that kind've sucks if you really don't want to play as one of the characters. Because each character plays a bit differently, it isn't like you're learning skills as one character you'll be able to bring over to the next.

Anyway, it's a good game. Very enjoyable roguelike, definitely recommended.

Simple but incredibly effective mechanics to deliver dopamine straight to the brain. Perfect also on mobile. Eager to see what this studio does next, as they clearly know how to make good games.

It's a pretty unique rougelike with a slower yet still quick feeling loop. Content can feel limited after enough runs, but the real replayability comes from the different characters you can choose from, each of which having different starting items, abilities, and perks.

This is one of these games that lure you in with a short game just to keep you glued to the screen way longer than you intended.