Beneath Oresa

A crunchy deckbuilder with great art and worldbuilding and a uniquely fluid feel to the combat. A lot of players seem to be put off by the difficulty curve. My suspicion is that it's not much more difficult than classic deckbuilders like Slay the Spire, but that there's a tension between the game trying to promote a combat experience which is fluid and cinematic and a mechanical system which demands close attention to small details. It feels great to fire off cards quickly and watch your character chain through combos. But if you get too attached to that feeling you'll soon run into enemies with abilities which punish your carelessness. This promotes a lot of early 'feelbads' - where you feel like you're mastering the game only to lose (seemingly) out of nowhere. (It would be particularly cool to double down on the design focus of the game as a way of addressing this. Perhaps a cut-scene, or a little bit of voiced exposition about the enemies you're about to face - especially with the biggest/most impactful ones - would be enough to give players a heads-up without being too intrusive. Think Darkest Dungeon's little descriptive voiceovers.) However, if you stick with it, it's definitely rewarding. And while I can't vouch for every combo of characters being equally viable for wins, the variety of choices you get to make and playstyles you get to experience helps to make up for that. If you're looking for a good starter combination, then any of the big sword guys paired with any of the other big sword guys feels easiest to me. Because their parry ability can counter a huge attack and turn it around as damage, they naturally compensate for the aggressive damage scaling from your enemies. Overall, well worth a bit of playing around with. Might be frustrating if I were a completionist, but I feel like I win runs of this about as often as I win high ascension runs of Slay the Spire (which is to say, seldom!) and that I generally have as much fun here.

I've been a growing fan of card battlers, but this one has a very well done upgrade in graphics so that the battle actually happens in front of you. The card mechanics are also very enjoyable, and the difficulty both requires you to think, but isn't so terrible that you feel like you'll lose no matter what. That being said, i definitely feel like some of the heroes are *signiiiffficantly* stronger than others, but then again, maybe i'm just playing the "weaker" heroes incorrectly. But the game is so enjoyable that i don't mind retrying until i figure it out, whereas some games just feel obnoxious and poorly programmed, this one feels like a great deal of thought and care went into it.

This game seems to hate giving away any kind of good help to it's player, like any of the items you get during the run helps soooo little. I do recommend buying it, but gaddaaammm

Nice replayability, so many symbiosis/mechanics and very original graphics. I would pretty much recommend to anyone who likes card battlers

Great game, great visuals, great strategy. Fantastic and visually stunning deckbuilder.

It literally auto closes the report an issue menu in game, thus preventing you from actually reporting bugs. Makes me think they don't want to work on them. It also need at least a 1 second buffer at the end of a match, if you hit a button to expedite getting to the next screen it auto picks a card without giving any non AI a chance to visually see the cards first. Great Idea but needs some polish and faster unlock of earlier variety of heros/companions and the option to not pick any card(too many bad deck fattening picks)

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