Roguelike Deckbuilder With an Interesting Twist!! | Let's Try: Enspell

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“Enspell” is deck building-RogueLike game based on a medieval fantasy where you unravel secrets and explore to seek treasures. While you fight against monsters in dangerous dungeons, you can collect trophies and make your own deck.
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[@Burag3]

Not having a discard pile means that removing cards from the deck is the most important thing in the game. Its value is above anything and everything the game throws at you

[@Retromation]

oh yeah, definitely. I certainly had no interest in minmaxing the demo "properly" though because then I wouldn't be able to take more than like 2 cards total which sounds... boring.

[@dyslxeic]

Just played the demo. Feels a little clunky that the card you are replacing are going into the deck immediately which has a chance to be redrawn. I also agree that you should be able to re-order the cards using your re-roll points. I would also like to see a way for the character to buy a fourth slot to play a card. As it stands now card removal is key since you start with quiet a few copies of trash cards. Also I would like to see a 'speed up animation' option.

[@MrMharv42]

Thanks for showing us this game Reto. I always like seeing new deck-builders showcased by you. Helps me greatly in deciding what’s worth buying and what isn’t.

[@normanjebaits4462]

This looks really fun!

[@gatunhame]

whoa if you told me this was a new gamemode in Souldiers, from the thumbnail I'd believe it

[@neikrodent]

For the reordering mechanic you mentioned, I think it would be really cool if all replace effects still triggered when reordering Also, imagine if block only disappeared at the end of your turn if you got hit, that way when the enemy isn't attacking you still have to think about whether to just attack or to block for next turn (Could just be a relic too)

[@Psyrmusic]

roguelike brother

[@andrewyang3917]

Well, this is an interesting autobattler

[@principleshipcoleoid8095]

So the card you play is more random than typical deck builders with discard pile

[@Retromation]

Yup, they thought that the random element of drawing cards wasn't random enough, a bold choice. I love this game and concept though, can't want to see where they take it!

[@adamlagerqvist8111]

The Bloodstone mechanic seems to be very inspired by Hearthstone's soul shards. (I think they were called soul shards). The Bloodstone generators seem good, but the payoff cards fell subpar. I think it's necessary to add extra effects to the payoff cards to make them worth the effort.

[@gennadyivanchenko2433]

Slay the spire

[@Fireweaver]

Without the discard pile it’s more luck be a landlord style draw, I think it’s ok for this game to keep the mechanic don’t want all deck builders to be too samey.

[@Retromation]

I agree that you don't want all games in the genre to be the same, but you don't just start changing things _for the sake of it._ The game is already completely unique due to its card-play mechanic, it doesn't need to remove quality of life just so it can be _more_ unique. Lots of deckbuilders don't have discards, I just don't think it works to remove it in _this_ one.

[@muddasheep]

Not having a discard pile and drawing randomly from your deck feels strange! If they added a discard pile and proper drawing, I also think that would be awesome and feel much better. Otherwise the game looks *very* good!

[@edlerlucasbarcellosdasilva3622]

commeennt

[@NightChime]

I loathe when cards are discarded into a random position in the deck. I know card games are steeped in randomness, but being able to endlessly redraw the same couple of cards is just idiotic. I would probably still be playing War of Omens if it just had a discard pile like an actual card game.