OMG Words

I'm not going to beat around the bush, the game is simply too hard and not in a way where you can get better at it with practice. After 7 hours, I managed to beat only the easiest board on the easiest difficulty, and I was using advanced strategies with positioning tiles and playing multiple words in one turn, I know how to manage item synergies from other similar games, etc., but the resources are too scarce to successfully develop in any direction, the bosses are too punishing, and there is no meta-game that could change it in the long run. If a typical Balatro run ends with you having swapped half of your jokers and upgraded the rest along with half of your deck in one way or another, in this game, your run ends with maybe one item swapped and being lucky that upgraded tiles didn't land too far away from the centre of the board. It's clearly not just me because only ~30% of people got the achievement for beating the novice. Buy this game only you're an absolute wordsmith who is also a glutton for punishment.

Honestly, the formula popularized by Balatro applies quite well to other games, it seems. I highly recommend this if you love word games, Balatro, or especially both.