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My current favorite card game is Aces and Adventures. Star Realms is now on hiatus until I get tired of this.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1815570/Aces__Adventures/

A&A is a card battler, not quite a deckbuilding game unless you consider getting abilities and traits 'building a deck'. You've got the default playing cards, and abilities which differ per class. Poker rules apply if you decide to do a standard attack or defense.

Depending on the class, abilities might be a major or minor factor in gameplay. The Warrior, for example, relies more on equipment to improve his standard attacks. The Rogue is somewhere in between. The Mage is a whole different beast, you generally want to mostly rely on the abilities, and almost never do a standard attack.

I've finished the 'Spring' storyline with the Warrior and the Rogue. Currently doing that with the Mage and it's a blast (maybe literally so with those fireballs). There are two more classes to go after this, and then I'll move on towards the next season storyline when I've leveled up all classes a bit. The levelups give those classes some permanent advantages, like starting with +1 more health every game, or having more cards you can mulligan. All small details that add up nicely.

There are different play modes possible. In this case I'm doing the default 'RPG' one with the seasonal storylines and just doing each 'chapter' one by one with a tough end boss at every end. But there is also a mode where you can traverse along a spiral-shaped map, choosing your paths like Slay the Spire, and trying to get to the end. And I recently unlocked the Daily Challenges after I finished the Spring storyline, I have yet to try that.

This game is about perfect. I just wish that the main menu was not some silly 3D thing, and that the game would load faster at the start and have less animations between screen transitions. But other than that.. just about perfect.
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Aces and Adventuresは、ポーカーを利用した戦闘を備えたデッキビルダーRPGです。 北欧と中東の神話に触発された世界を旅して、彼女のルーツをかじる悪からライフツリーを救ってください。

Show threadAliSep 14, 2023

September 14, 2023 - Day 257 - RePlay Review
Total RePlays: 8

Game: Aces & Adventures

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Feb 24, 2023
Library Date: Sep 13, 2023

Playtime: 52m (1h16m total)

Aces & Adventures is a fantasy RPG deckbuilding roguelite using poker mechanics.

Yeah, when I woke up this morning, I decided to give it another shot over coffee to see just how much of my ability to understand the game had been clouded by exhaustion.

Turns out, pretty much total.

When I played it this morning, it all made a hell of a lot more sense, both the way that the various kinds of cards work, and also the synergy between them.

In addition, I could actually remember a bunch of poker hands that evaded me last night.

Essentially, each round presents you with one or more cards with a bunch of hitpoints, health points, armor, etc etc. The cards also might have certain abilities.

You get one attack per round, but triggering abilities doesn't count as an attack, so if you can clear the board before your attack, you do that.

This morning's run had a card with first strike, and another set of three cards, that each time you kill one, the rest get stronger, so it helps if you have an ability card that synergises with your draw that enables you to hit all enemies for three damage at once.

Which I did, and required two spades to trigger.

During the attack round is when the poker hands come into play (pun intended); you play your hand and then the AI attempts to defend.

If you play a single Ace, for example, the best the AI can do is block that with an Ace. Play a King, and the AI can block it with a King, or trump it with an Ace, which means you take damage.

But a poker hand? Double or triple your damage, particularly if you've collected some upgrade cards that stay with you until the end of the round. Maybe you pick up a card that's +1 damage per spade played.

It's a nice damage addition when you drop a single spade, but when you drop a straight?

That won me the round against a boss mob.

So with some sleep under my belt, it's fair to bump Aces & Adventures up to:

4: Good

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Show threadAliSep 13, 2023

September 13, 2023 - Day 256 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 277

Game: Aces & Adventures

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Feb 24, 2023
Library Date: Sep 13, 2023
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 24m

Aces & Adventures is a fantasy RPG deckbuilding roguelite using poker mechanics.

It's the fourth game in this month's Humble Bundle, and the first where, in spite of a tutorial, I had no idea what was happening half the time.

I don't know. I'm still not sure exactly what happened.

You play as one of several classes, each of which (other than the first) you unlock by playing. I completed playing "Spring" as a dwarf warrior and unlocked the rogue class.

It's turn-based combat, in which you have three decks in play simultaneously. The attack deck which is a standard 52 card deck, a second deck of ability cards, and a third deck of upgrade cards.

At least I think that's what was happening. Admittedly, I'm very tired right now, which might have stunted my understanding of how to play, but I muddled my way through to completing the first... section? Quest?

In any case, I think I need to give Aces & Adventures a pass this time, and blame it on myself, so for now it's:

3: OK

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