Knock on the Coffin Lid Reviews

Honestly, I thought it’d be worse lol but the game’s actually decent. I’ll be keeping an eye on future updates. Curious to see where it goes next.

Honestly, I thought it’d be worse lol but the game’s actually decent. I’ll be keeping an eye on future updates. Curious to see where it goes next.

Feels like the game still hasn’t shown its full potential. Some mechanics are a bit confusing, and the UI can get cluttered. But you can see the team is putting in effort, and that’s promising.

If StS and Griftlands produced a child together, you'd have KotCL. While there's much less story (ie reading between combat encounters, making decisions based on that reading) than Griftlands, there's markedly more than StS which ofc has none. Are the encounters, card selection, class power, etc, as finely tuned as StS? No, but that would be true for every deckbuilder besides Balatro and (arguably) Monster Train. As an experienced player of deckbuilders, but a fairly novice player of KotCL, my biggest complaint would be that deaths sometimes leave me scratching my head. Did I focus the wrong target? Did I need more offensive card choices? Defensive choices? Was it simply bad RnG/decision making and I wasn't offered the cards/gear to compile a successful build? I'm often unsure. Overall, if you enjoy StS style deckbuilders, this game has a lot of content and will likely be a satisfying purchase.

The atmosphere is great, especially visually, the art is gorgeous. There are a few issues with the combat system, and I really hope they fix the fonts in the next patch. They’re kinda rough right now

I really WANT to like this game. It's very similar to other games you know and love, and the art and storytelling are engaging. It's really hard to get over how difficult it is to pull cards onto the playing field. There's just some polish needed still, and it's priced like a complete game. I can barely get through a run in an hour and a half of gameplay because I'm sitting there trying to drag a card...over and over again. This also makes it hard to tell if balancing, messaging, and other elements are done well, because you just won't get past the lack of polish to play long enough. I really hope the devs take the mixed reviews to heart because this game has a lot of potential - but we want finished games.

Getting to the end of the game only to not be allowed to even fight the final boss because you didn't find some random thing you didn't know you would need is infuriating and not a fun game moment.

Great game. Very relaxing to play. It's like "Slay the Spire" but with a story. Very happy I picked it up.

I really wanted to like this game and in some cases it clicks. Getting some weapons, armor, and artifacts that compliment each other was fun. I felt like I got a good flow and was able to move through just fine. Some cases sure unfair, other cases I'm overpowered. It sounds like a mixed review, because it is. The reason I'm leaving it as a negative is because the final boss you are literally leaving it up to chance. Why are you creating a gambling mechanic for the last boss? Some random encounter or event on the map sure, but the final boss? It literally just takes the wind out of this game. You work and play hard and just to lose a crappy thought out gambling mechanic. This is was artificial difficulty. Literally no strategy in the fight. You either get lucky and win or unlucky and lose. This final boss mechanic ain't it chief.

I want to like this game it does a lot of things well. However, it is listed as verified on the Steam deck and it is in fact a glitchy mess. As I specifically bought it to play on the Steam deck this is a huge issue. It is currently locked up and errors out on launch. I am having to figure out a way to delete my save files and hope that works. update: I can't believe the game just prompted me to delete all of my progress or else the game wouldn't work properly!!! what kind of update is that?