In a world of more indie roguelike deckbuilders than you can throw a stick at, it's super refreshing when they are presented with this level of quality - especially when it takes everything from the first game and does it even better

Feels like your own personal D&D game with arkham style combat for the encounters

Amazing story and gameplay, all the mini games contribute well to the overall game, highly recommended!

I love deck builders. Even more so if there's a PvE campaign with story. HoF 1 was janky, but ultimately fun.
HoF 2, instead of being an incremental improvement to the first installment, went all in on the most frustrating aspects of the first game.

As a plus, more varied gameplay, they tried to make interesting maps.
As many minuses - horrid camera movement that you cannot control. RNG upon RNG upon RNG with no fun to it. Way faster card etc gambits, designed to be mitigated with gear, which you cannot rely upon due to the aforementioned RNG. But worst of all - INCREDIBLY tedious animations and voiceovers repeating, repeating, repeating, of course completely unskippable, and making any replay a slog through tar.
Incredibly frustrating.