I will say this game does get a bit better as you play, but there is so many better options out there. I get that this was the first of its kind, but there is so much wrong that it was hard to even play as much as I have. The art is terrible, but I could look past it if the game wasn't so unbalanced. It is very easy to get encounters that basically just deem you dead before you even get a chance, like how was I supposed to know the Hydra can be permanently damaged with Earth and Fire cards if you have nothing to tell me that. The alternative to that is doing 150 damage at once because it FULLY HEALS EVERY TURN, so that's totally balanced. What about enemies that reduce physical damage? Rounding down is the worst, unless you can cap it at a minimum of 1, otherwise you basically get to a point where you do 0 damage each turn and you have to just wait to die so you can start over. There is nuggets of things that are neat and intriguing to this game, but since this genre has been around for a while there are much better offerings out there for anyone interested.

Worthless game. Always die in a few encounters at the beginning with the normal difficulty. Plus no tutorial at all. The art hurts the eyes.

The game is not "bad" but having a deck that is good enough is SUUUUPPPEEERR RNG dependant. So you will die A LOT unfortunately.

Level one boss Gelatinous Cube 45 HP stealing my crappy 1 point damage cards every one of my turns and then killing me in 6 turns 2 runs in a row is really super lame and I'm going to go play again after writing this. Thanks for nothing, dev

I've beat the game, but it's just too random. Between enemy passives of 50% chance to prevent your attacks and enemy cards that replace your hand with curses, if the enemy gets the right luck you have no chance.

Mostly just a basic deck builder, but with more character options than most. But, the characters share the same card pool, with small differences. Probably a single dev, so maybe worth $1.

I do have to give credit for enemies that require certain damage types. I think if you could gather cards and choose which ones to use before the fight, it could add a LOT of strategy.

I dont get the praise.

You can't see the enemy's intent, which is a big no-no in a roguelike deckbuilder.

I'm sorry, but the graphics just made this game unbearable for me.

i gave this game a shot but it's just too clunky. For a game without graphics I would really hope for click-speed card movement and stuff, like the really old pokemon games. The game is so bare-bones that it really gets grating to watch my 2 attack-1 cards slide to the center in my first 3 battles or have my two swords ticking individually every two attacks I play. By comparison, Slay the Spire is obviously extremely graphically sophisticated but turns in that game feel WAY faster than this, which just seems absurd. Walking around is equally "fast" but feels so sluggish bc there is literally nothing going on and the thing i'm doing is trivial-- looking for empty tiles to get the most info about the map before making a decision. Clicking around for those squares as they come up just does not FEEL good, it is unnecessary and tedious. I wish this game just did not have any animations frankly. The ability to completely turn them off would give it a lot more appeal.

The other thing is it just does not seem as deep as it appears, even relative to its minimalist trappings. Putting aside the absurd amount of grinding to unlock everything, it really feels like you are just walking around hoping for certain cards or certain buildings and if you never hit that monastery or card draw or mitigation before you need it, there's nothing to be done. Add in the fact that much of that stuff you need to unlock is key to many decks-- so you not only have to hope they show up but also grind for it in shorter, even more bare-bones runs first. Each class kind of just plays a certain way and it doesn't feel like there is a ton of variation within that. Combined with the sluggish movement relative to what's going on, I feel like a LOT of my runs are just the same minutiae at least for the first 10-15 minutes, which is a killer for a genre based on starting over again and again. Each run and each fight within it just blurs into a LOT of just mashing play all & end turn with a few exceptions depending on your draw.

I think there is good stuff in here, but it so often feels like a chore to get to those moments that I lost interest before I even won with the first handful of classes.

The most horribly balanced card game I've ever played. I have over 800 hours on Slay the Spire and I've played nearly every roguelike deckbuilder on Steam. Dream Quest is pure RNG ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.