Yao-Guai Hunter Reviews

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Long time card game player here, and I love this game. It's a bit rough around the edges, but also very beautiful, smooth, and with very good ideas. The drawing are captivating, the characters very interesting, the overall game mechanics very good too. The rough part are mainly how "short" and not detailed the main story dialogue is, and some rare bugs. But it's still overall an excellent game that I can recommend. I've seen people complain about the energy regeneration being at 2, I do see where it comes from, but I do think the game balance is very good currently and that a higher one would really allow to play the whole hand every turn from the beginning. When already I'm playing all my hand most of the time in my decks. I've tested the 5 characters and they're all very different and interesting. I've yet to play in higher difficulties, where I do see fights being harder meaning a higher energy restoration can prove very useful, but everything having been a breeze after getting the fondamentals of this game I do think it's just a more demanding game in terms of deckbuilding, with a different rhythm than i've been used to, though still very well balanced. My hope is that early game won't be too punishing at max difficulty, as is often the case since it's hard to balance early fights where you have nothing and ennemies are pumped up in terms of stats. Well done ! Glad this has been translated to english because I would have missed it if not (my main language being french and second being english), and this is really a lovely game.

7 / 10 This game is way better than this point but a lot of unpolished small things hold it down. The game often not respond at startup, some text is not translated, some cards have no difference between normal and updated version. It also unplayable on Steam Deck. Except for all of the above, it's a great deck building game. Very similar to Slay the Spire with 5 characters, each have very unique playstyle. It have 5 energies at start and only recover 2 each round, and it will cost 1 to re-shuffle the deck. But after some time, you will get familiar with it since there are a lot of mechanics to play with energy. Balance between each card still need to improve but so far I enjoy it