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It was a little painful trying to figure it out at first, I think an in-game tutorial could have greatly improved the experience. But once I got a handle on it I was enjoying myself.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1060066,"author_name":"Mohammed Kapiel","author_uid":"mohammed-kapiel","epoch":1713441637,"text":"It takes a bit to get used to, but honestly it's very interesting. Feels fairly polished as well so great job :clap: One minor thing I would have liked, is a button to restart instead of refreshing the page, when I feel fairly deffeated and just want to try again.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1069518,"author_name":"Broccolly","author_uid":"broccolly","epoch":1713722676,"text":"This  was great! It felt like a board game. Took mem a little time to work it out but loved it once I did. Great concept to build on. 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I think I ran into a few visual glitches (like extra cards appearing when restarting and overlapping monster cards) but that might just be me misunderstanding a mechanic.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1078578,"author_name":"LDJam user 99418","author_uid":"99418","epoch":1714759595,"text":"Not sure why my monsters aren't dying, and the gold they are taking per turn keeps raking up. Would like to see the concept but with a bit more qol\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1078613,"author_name":"Frogman","author_uid":"frogman","epoch":1714762141,"text":"Managed to defeat the dark lord using the infinite card draw combo! It took me way too long to find it though.\n\n![Screenshot 2024-05-03 214409.png](\/\/\/raw\/5d0\/72\/z\/64f78.png)\n\nAnyway, this was amazing!! I played it for over an hour I think - it was so much fun! I loved all the trade-offs between the different resources, figuring out when to summon cards, when to use them, when to keep them for next turn... It had so much depth! The balance was a little off - the Advanced Prospector was so good I kept refreshing until it showed up in the initial shop, and the aforementioned infinite draw is obviously pretty broken - but that's to be expected in a compo game. My only nitpick is that the Dark Lord growing stronger every turn felt a bit overtuned - in the one attempt where I actually reached it in a pretty good state without the infinite combo, I was suddenly wrecked when it kept growing massively every turn. It was also very easy to forget that you could attack with coins. Other than that though, I loved this! Awesome entry!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1078671,"author_name":"outstar","author_uid":"outstar","epoch":1714765066,"text":"That was really fun! 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