For me, if I ever hear "card-based" or "soulslike" I have absolutely no desire to play a game, no matter how many people reccomend it.

I'm also not a huge fan of modern "roguelikes" but I've sunk days into nethack and games like that.

    • Mog_Pharou [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Over here playing nothing but deck-builders, rogue-likes, and souls-likes cat-confused

      • fathog [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        “Surely this one will match Slay The Spire” he says as he spends $15 on yet another ugly, easy, knockoff

        (Cobalt Core is super rad though)

      • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        If it’s well designed you shouldn’t have to do any homework, the game should be naturally teaching you the basics as you progress through play and 90% of the fun should be finding interactions through cards yourself without looking them up. I don’t know what you’re playing but it sounds miserable

          • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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            2 months ago

            deck builders are cool because you don’t build them beforehand though, you pick up cards as part of gameplay so instead of having to build a deck and do math and look up metas and shit you just click the cards that look cool during the game

    • DyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      if I'm playing a city builder I don't want my city building options to be "whatever's in your deck of cards"

      if I'm playing an RPG I don't want my skills and equipment or whatever to be "a bunch of cards"

      if I wanted to play a card game... I'd play a card game

      • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        if I wanted to play a card game... I'd play a card game

        You’re talking about card games though, like those are just card games with novel mechanics

    • Omniraptor [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      I dislike how nowadays slay the spire and its ilk is what people assume for the term deck builder instead of multiplayer (usually offline) games like ascension or puzzle strike or dominion

      • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        :( all I think about is those games you just mentioned and the new Balatro game that just came out, why are we calling games not about cards deck builders

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      For me it's too much RNG I don't feel like I'm in control of what I'm doing. I do not trust in the heart of the cards.

      • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        That’s why I love deck builders though, it’s all about exerting your will indirectly by modifying odds