Journey of Greed Reviews

This game is fun and hilarious, and is very well executed. As your first question in reading this review section is probably pertaining to whether this game is p2w, allow me put your mind at ease. You acquire cards and build a collection as you play, but there are no in-game microtransactions. This adds to the feeling that you've earned the ability to build effective decks (which doesn't take long at all). Journey of Greed is a great example of how digital board/card games can be, and for that alone I am willing to support the developers by paying the small price tag. The game's name is actually quite ironic in this sense, as the people who made this one are clearly not in it for the money. As far as gameplay goes, the game reminds me of Gremlins Inc. in the sheer ruthlessness of things you can do to advance yourself at your opponents' expense, but Journey of Greed is not nearly as long and tedious as Gremlins. In fact, the short timer for each turn is one of my favourite elements of the game, as players are presented with relatively little time to make decisions. This means you have to think quickly and often make decisions based on speculation or probability, knowing that your opponents can impact the order of the islands at a moment's notice and throw your plan into jeopardy. A few suggestions that could improve an already great game in future updates: 1) Add cosmetic rewards for players to purchase using gold or diamonds. These could be different emotes, voice lines, or player portraits. Having at least one male and one female portrait for each character class would be nice. 2) Incorporate friends' list and the ability to send friend requests to opponents after a match (and invite them via the friends list to private matches). 3) There are some minor spelling/grammatical mistakes that need tweaking. 9/10

Simple to learn but hard to master, this game deserves much more recognition than it deserves. If you're a fan of card games and friendly competitive play, this is a must-try. No P2W, easy card progression and a wide array of playstyle.

Surprisingly deep gameplay and thoroughly interesting deckbuilding experience makes this one of the best looking adventure card games I've seen in a while. The Island mechanic with the compass takes time to get used to, but is actually really fun when you do. Instead of feeling like gambling against complete RNG every round, the game lets you take calculated risks and you can alter their odds with the deck you have built, which also affects the map setup. Pros: - Awesome and relaxing background music - 4 unique characters which have their own set of skill cards and multiple different playstyle possibilities - A lot of interesting cards which let players mindgame each other - Game length is quite neat, it doesn't feel too long but still like a complete journey - Collection progress seems quite healthy, there are many ways to earn rewards: quests, wins and weekly rewards which give a steady flow of rewards and keeps the player interested as they gain new cards all the time - The way rank is divided on the ladder seems extremely fair, instead of winner taking all the rank points are distributed based on individual player's deviation from the average point amount. This means that finishing third can sometimes count as a game win as well, while it is possibly to lose as second player sometimes too. - Cool card art which fits the overall art style well. - Custom multiplayer - A free demo which lets the player play the game the same way than if bought, with only a collection restriction (can't open more than 20 packs), rank restriction and game host restriction (3 times) Cons: - English spellchecking is required, some very basic errors which most people notice straight away, like "Sheild" - Apparently the game doesn't have that many players, I didn't really know that before buying the game as I just fell in love with it after the demo. Queue takes 5 seconds but that could be because of bots, however I don't even mind that much, their AI is not too bad if that's really the case and the game is very enjoyable even for solo playing. And it is always possible to invite friends. - Some small bugs, for example the "Double Steal" card also activates when other players steal from you, even though it states otherwise.

A nice concept that lacks the sense of player interaction and competitiveness which makes each match just feel like you're playing by yourself over and over. The game revolves around players using their cards in reaction to each island they advance to. Some cards are useful for islands that are dangerous, other cards are useful for islands that are beneficial. But players aren't told what islands are coming up, they have to anticipate it based off a prediction mechanic built into the game. So the entire game is just about players reacting, there's little room for actual strategy it's mostly just players using whatever cards they have which make the most sense in the current situation. There are some card synergies but not many really, and in the end it's still down to random chance. Because players can't accurately know what's going to happen next, so they can't even build their plays reliably around synergies since random chance can just nullify them. So the game is just about sitting there, playing the most obviously beneficial card you currently have in relation to the current situation which you can't fully predict. That's it, over and over. It's like matching colours, if the island predictor is green then you should pick a green card, or otherwise a card that boosts your wealth. If the island predictor is red, pick a red card or otherwise a card that protects you. Over and over just the most simple, borderline mindless reaction minigame. There's some room for you making dynamic choices but these moments are very situational. Because players don't really interact with each other directly, the fact that you're playing against other players doesn't really matter since there's little in this system they can do to dynamically strategize. So they might as well just be the computer, you playing against the computer over and over; there's little actual difference in this game between a player opponent or computer opponent. Actually, the difference is a player opponent can taunt you via the emote system which has been set up to exclusively encourage abusive behaviour in a digital environment with no real risks. They even have phrases that are entirely designed to encourage that kind of behaviour, such as "You Mad?". Unfortunately the trend seems to be that instead of developers finding ways to stop players from abusing each other ingame; they just seem to be embracing it by adding emotes and such like this into their games that deliberately promote destructive behaviour. That alone merits a thumbs down honestly, this is a game made for fun and a game I paid for to have fun; I have zero interest in playing or paying for something engineered to upset me. The gameplay concept as a whole would be nice to play with friends while in a chat room since then at least you know you're playing with friends and can actually talk while you play. Playing this against strangers feels totally meaningless because of how little interaction, strategy or player involvement this game actually has. It is indeed very much like an actual board game. For the most part there's little players can do to actually perform better than a computer could at this game, so you might as well just set up a macro to play this game for you. Calling your own game "perfect" in the store description is also disappointing to see, on an ethical level.

If you're looking for a game with a lot of deception, danger, and hella loot this is the game for you. A four player card/board game that plays out like an explorer's grand adventure. I don't write a lot of reviews, but the fact that this game is so good at early access, and has such a low price means you should get it and give it a try even if you're on the fence. The game can be sort of challenging at first, but there is just so much freedom in each players strategy that you never really know what will happen in any game. if anyone has any specific questions about the game, feel free to comment on this!

Does a terrible job at explaining the core mechanics of the game. Graphics, UI and general polish seems that of a flash game. Interesting mechanics nonetheless.

[h1] For those of you who are interested, I've made a little video on youtube showing you some of what the game actually consists of. It should help you decide whether or not the game is for you. [/h1] https://youtu.be/l0lOCvmYAEQ Okay, now onto the review. Journey of Greed is a card/board game that feels extremely well polished, balanced, intuitive and unique. The game may be called Journey of Greed but I assure you, no greed was used by the developers when creating this masterful game. The game only costs $6.99 for starters and has absolutely no microtransactions. An online card game with [b]NO MICROTRANSACTIONS[/b]? This alone deserves praise. Is the foundation of the game good enough and interesting to keep you hooked? Absolutely. I get a rush with every card pack I open, every single match I play I always feel like I have a chance even when I'm losing. It will keep you entertained through the entire match every time it feels like. With 4 unique classes and the ability to build your own decks, the game certainly isn't lacking in variation. In fact, in this game you build 2 decks! That's right, not 1 but 2. Creativity certainly pays off here and that's high praise. Instead of being based on RNG like most card games, RNG takes a back seat too tactics and calculated guesses of what the board layout is gonna be. RNG is still present of course as without it entirely it would lose a little of that excitement. But if you are a good player and have good strategies and decks, you will succeed a large portion of your games. I can not praise this game enough, it is said to be made by 3 ex Tencent and EA dev's and that had me nervous. But these dev's have proved that can not only can they make a fantastic game. But they can also stand on their own against I believe even the big hitters in the online card game industry such as hearthstone, shadowverse, Elders scrolls legends and countless others. One final thing to note. A minor gripe I have. The tutorial can be a bit confusing and does drag on. Even after the tutorial ended I was still confused by a few things. But keep playing and I assure you, you wont regret it! Thank you to all guys who have made it this far. Keep in mind there is always a free demo if you are interested but unsure. That's what I downloaded and after trying the demo I was sold.

This game is frenetic and not in a good way. It moves so fast, I had very little ability to understand what was going on. Card plays flash across the screen and I could barely process what each player was doing each hand. It ended up leaving me feeling like I was swept into a fast moving current and being pulled along for the ride, as opposed to building an meaningful strategy or counter-strategy to other players.

---Don't be put off by the Chinese presence and reviews, there are mostly English speakers and the entire game is perfect English and was originally English. No translated Chinese. ---It is a TRULY pay-to-play, NO p2w involved, confirmed. I thoroughly checked their monetary strategy and it is what EVERY CCG should use. You still need to do some work to get all the cards but it happens very quickly. ---Much more chill than other CCGs, with the FFA 4 player board game style, but still competitive and ranked if you want. ---VERY MUCH worth the money. Check it out. We should support the companies that don't use greedy practices. Thanks, Dird Games!

It's actually a great little deck building strategy game. However, it gets a thumbs down from me because there is not much chance to make sense of how the game actually works because the turn timer is sooo damn fast that you barely have time to take actions let alone read the cards, read other players abilities, and think about what colour island comes next. And that takes all the fun out of it really. Also, the game manual and tutorials don't actually cover about 70% of what happens in the game, so there is not even anyway to look it up. And just to make things even more confusing there are some translation errors in the english version and so some of the card descriptions don't make any sense. So because of these issues, what seems to be intended as strategy game is more of a panicked clicking frenzy to collect points to upgrade... kind of like an idle clicker in that aspect. But I will keep my eye on it this game and come back to it again if they resolve the timing issues and make the game manual more complete.