Alchemist of War Reviews

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A small but clever game.

Charming little game with very nice art style.

Feels like it'd be an excellent mini-game within a larger game.

Singleplayer card game where you craft and sell weapons to two war factions. There is no defeat in this game, but if you want to make a high score, you need to balance the power of two factions. If one side gets too powerful, which you can see on the bar at the top right, the game ends. If you match the crafting ingredients colors with the arrows, you'll get a bonus in profits and power of that weapon. You can kick a customer to postpone the game-over, but it costs 10 golds, so try to craft a useless weapon if you can, instead of kicking them. The more you prolong the game, stronger the weapons become, so it gets harder as you play.

Play with beating level 10: https://youtu.be/60KYv4Hlnbw I was gonna 100% this game, but it's a shame that the dragon achievements don't pop I sold a 250-500 gold item multiple times, but they don't work. The game though is still a ton of fun though and the working achievements make you change your playstyle drastically which is neat and adds a ton of replay getting to level 10 you have to slow roll actually get a feel of how the cards will swing with the huge multiplier etc. The money achievements you have to basically base race and use the arrows to maximize profits before the swings become too large and the dragon achievements you would just need MASSIVE rng with the eyeballs. Overall though for the price this is a really dope strategy management game in my opinion. There is a glitch though where if you put the items in and give someone the boot it will give them whatever the score was from the made item even if you didn't give it to them and sometimes even though there's a score to move the bar it won't register on the first turn which can really smack you if you're trying to speed roll through.

Honestly for $1, you get a very difficult game. It's not crazy deep, and yet some mechanics aren't even explained. But I've had a decently fun time trying to figure out how far I can take the game, trying very carefully to balance the war gauge.

good game, really like it, 1 more Be a magician, make weapons, get rich, buy lots of cards, beat the opponent, we can! I think this is a suitable advertising word for this game

Update 8/30/2024: It breaks my heart that in 2024 I can look at the steam store and see Overwatch 2 that has almost 300k reviews in which barely 20% of them are positive. Yet 38,500 people are playing it on steam right now. We as a community have very obviously gotten our symbolic gestures down. I just don't understand why we've chosen to only express it in a negative way. While you're doom scrolling steam to find your next bundle of sale items to never play don't just pass over this one. It's a $.99 game done by just one person or maybe a couple who are clearly passionate about games from Istanbul. The art is really unique and cute, appears almost hand drawn and they very clearly wrote their own music. From now on I'm no longer going to scream at billion dollar corporations who don't even view me as a human but as a mechanism to make themselves richer. I'm instead going to give money to developers like this so that they don't give up on their dreams. This developer created socials for this game, for their company and a website but just as fast we never heard from them again. It's because we're so busy lamenting the death of gaming as an art form as we queue for another apex match. From now on I'm going to seek out developers like this who are trying to preserve that legacy and support them. If we don't do that in 20 years we're going to be talking about the next big WoW expansion, Diablo 6.5 that needs loot 2.0, Call of Duty Black Ops Infinity and how your favorite movie was made by Marvel. You're not buying a small cheeky game you'll never play for $.99 you're sending a message to the developer to never stop dreaming big. For the love of god if you don't buy this game right now I will come to your house and delete your Fortnite skins. If you want to stand for something, stop only thinking of yourself and start standing for the little guy. If you want games to get better you need to support the people who are trying to do so. Update 12/27/2022: The price was reduced to $0.99. I honestly don't see any reason why if you have even an inkling of interest in the game you shouldn't get it. Original Review: This is a charming little game. The instructions leave a lot to be desired but with some trial and error you can pretty much figure the game out. It’s not too complicated but has enough complexity to keep it interesting if you like beating your own high score. The art is actually very well done and, for a while, is interesting to look at. The music is a bit repetitive but it’s not bad background noise. Overall I think the game has a lot to offer even if only for a couple of hours. I think $3.99 is completely reasonable.