Godsbane Reviews

Good game but where are the players? queue times are 10 min and you play the same guy over and over if you do find a match.

Casual auto-battling fun with deeper strategizing possibilities. Active developers constantly sending updates our way. Game was buy-to-play once. Now, free to play with no added downside whatsoever. Underrated gem.

This game is great for the following reasons: The developers attentively listen to the community. The community is actively involved to help improve the game and set trends. It is not pay to win. Yet I look forward to the cosmetics when they are to be released. It is a fun turn based auto-battler where positioning is crucial.

Massively unbalanced. You are forced to be chum for people that have been playing this game longer than you that have better cards. You will lose repeatedly to earn the gold you need to purchase said OP cards. Let me save you some time: buy the Phoenix unit, stick it in your back line and win. It is so broken. It has the health pool of a defensive unit and the highest single target and AOE damage output in the game. People new to the game won't have access to cards that can counter it. Update 3/18: the latest update buffed Phoenix and extended the already lengthy match time by making players take less damage during earlier rounds. Hard pass.

Godsbane is a competitive autobattler where YOU get to construct the pool of units and equipment you will draw from in a match. This gives you more control over the kind of board you'll be able to build in a match than any other autobattler I've played. This means the game doesn't really have the high and low rolls you might see in other autobattlers, for better or for worse. Instead, the game is more about the small tactical decisions and strategic considerations you make over the course of a match, as well as the initial construction of your pool of units and equipment. Since this game is 1v1, there is a lot of room to react to what your opponent is doing and counteract it. One of the main avenues for this is the unit positioning. Every round, both players get to change the starting positions of some of their units. A very simple mechanic, but also very deep as the positions of units determine who they attack in battle. The devs are very active in fixing bugs and making balance changes, and are very transparent about their plans for the future of the game. Overall, Godsbane is a very interesting combination of an autobattler with deck construction that I highly recommend!

Could be good but: - Some choices are weird, like the fact you can invade opponent side, making lot of lineup/powers useless. - It is extremely luck-based, considering your hand has a fixed template: 2 slots are for units, but units tiers make the most of the game. So based on luck, you'll have a huge (dis)advantage regarding your opponent. - It's even more true regarding spells: You have 3 slots for spells in hand, and 10 spells in deck. There is one spell slot on each unit (2 slots at level 3, if you have enough luck to level them up), and you can't duplicate spells. - Which means like you start each game with a very restrictive deck, no matter luck you can lose at loading screen due to both line-up and game balance: You can't have more than 5 units in the game, and your deck is filled with 5 units. You can't have more than 10 spells equipped and 10 spells in deck. So there is no way you can adapt to your opponent. - Why... the... heck... fights... are... that... much... much... SLOW? You can have an complete night during each round.

I can appreciate the attempt to do something different with the auto-battler genre, but I feel like what they changed doesn't actually [i]improve[/i] anything about auto-battlers. Particularly, I think removing the concept of "Alliances" lobotomizes the strategic side of the game, in favor of... nothing? I can understand they're trying to "simplify" the genre, but that's the thing... they didn't actually simplify anything. You still have to carefully min-max your "collection" (it's a deck, c'mon guys you can use the normal word) and if you don't, you'll lose as surely as playing random units in Dota Underlords or Teamfight Tactics. Part of the fun of auto-battlers is to react on the fly to what the game gives you, but the hard-limit of 5 potential unit draws and a handful of spells takes a lot of that away. Put simply: there isn't enough randomness in each "hand" to create the interesting scenarios and pivots that exist in other auto-battlers. You can tailor-make a deck, and you won't get a single card draw that isn't part of that premade deck. Within days, the meta will form, and it will be a straightforward Rock-Paper-Scissors scenario where you can instantly know if you'll win or lose based on the first fight, because you know exactly what deck they're running, and know it's impossible to win or lose whatever match up it is. This is exacerbated by the fact that the game is 1v1 instead of a 8 player Free-For-All like other auto-battlers. In those, at least, there's always the chance that someone who's countering your build will themselves be countered by someone else in the match, or that two or three players might be trying to go the same build, and therefore weaken each other enough for you to have a shot at victory. Here, there is none of that.

Really fun game! This is my first time playing this type of game, but it was surprisingly easy to get into (The tutorial did a great job of explaining the mechanics). The games are also relatively short and fast paced which makes it great to experiment with different strategies to find what can work against your opponents. Highly recommended.

Extremely involved Devs, amazing auto battler community, diverse comps with lots of back end strategy and ever changing meta. Lots of growth potential, 150+ hours and still hasn't become stale. Learning curve and minor grind but doable vs bots or through casual. Can also jump headfirst into ranked. 10/10

I bought 2 copies, for me and a friend (~13% of minimum wage here), to play this deckbuilding autobattler game Devs removed the deckbuilding, made it a totally different game made the game free I dont like this game, dont wanna play this Will never recommend nor play any game of this devs to anyone bc they sell you X and deliver Y