Elemental Exiles Steam Charts & Stats

Had this on my wishlist for a while as I'm a big STS fan. Only a couple of hours in so far but i love the variety and attention to detail that has gone into all of the encounters. Definitely going to be playing more over the coming days and first impressions are great! Already want to find all of the additional characters and complete all of the quest lines... my addictive personality strikes again. Very charming game, tough but addictive, the way any good roguelike should be.

What a waste. Beautiful, slick UI and graphics. Great metagame framing. But the game itself is incredibly boring. You have three elements, and attack or block with those. Watch numbers go up and down. There doesn't seem to be much else here.

**Great visual style, unique card expiring upon use gimmick, elemental blocks/attacks/strength/weakness, dark and light alignments, and huge array of characters to play as. I thought I found a gem here.** Can't recommend now though.. The game doesn't utilize these to it's full potential. Here's the bad. -12 characters! Well.. not really. They all share the same card pool. All of them. The only difference is they have a unique buff, but the buff isn't game changing really. It's just like +1 water defense to water cards, or 2X gold on combat wins. -Light and Dark alignments! Sadly this doesn't effect events, nor are the alignments permanent. You can't go down a dark path or one of good and have altered events on the game map or requirements for special items/cards based on alignment. Nothing cool like that, it's literally just an extra effect that's only in battles upon card use; it changes how strong/weak a card or enemy is. It goes down every turn like a buff/debuff. -Elemental cards and plain cards. I did like this gimmick but it's half baked. For example, if you have a fire shield of 10, and get attacked by a normal attack of 5, you have 5 shield left. If you get attacked by water with 5 it has a 200% buff and breaks the shield. If you attack fire with nature it'll do half damage. Sadly, that's about it. There are card synergies as well but with so few cards it gets old fast. -Narrative. It has a cool narrative for each characters motivation and why they traverse the map. You can even fight the other 12 characters on the map! As cool as this is, it's not that deep. Every enemy fights you for a reason if you read the encounter, but you ALWAYS have to fight. There is no dark/light alignment, factions, race, or RPG stats that enable you a chance to alter the battle encounter. -No relics or perm progression. The game is just, beat the bosses with each character. That's it. No meta game or unlockable aside from the characters. You can't have a unique run with relics or stats, it's always the same. Including the map. You'll find the best route and then rinse and repeat. Not enough RNG imo. 6/10 game right now.. potential could Rival STS as a unique deckbuilder if the dev expands upon this amazing skeleton of a game.