Spellrune: Realm of Portals Reviews

During my ~30 minutes of playing, I broke the game. Freeze spells are incredibly overpowered, to the point where I only received damage maybe 2 or 3 times during the whole run. Finishing a level started resetting the stage, causing the entire map to be regenerated from the beginning. Treasures(Relics) got hard capped at a surprisingly small amount, 19 or so, meaning I was no longer able to pick up more after fights. However, the merchant would still take away my gold if I tried to buy one. Despite all these gamebreaking bugs I ran into on release, there hasn't been a shred of communication from the creators. Not one post in the forum, not one announcement in the news feed. When you release a game to the public that is very clearly not even functional, it's very important to keep communicating in the first few days and make clear it's a work in progress and that progress is being made. The creators have not done this, so I'll be refunding this game after waiting days for any sign that they cared about the state of their product. TLDR: Broken game, zero communication or even any sign work is in progress. Creating a very shady combination when you also consider how much of a rip-off this is of other popular card-based games. Stay away.

Its one thing to blatently rip off a games concept almost step for step (slay the spire), but at least make sure your game works... constantly bugs out after a fight on the loot screen essentially crashing the game, no way to progress or exit other than hitting alt+F4. This game is most likely already abandoned and I reccommend staying away from this one.

It's like a hilariously broken STS. I was looking for something in the mold of STS, but this... really isn't it. Basically, if you're any good at games like these, you will break open the game on your first run due to its amazing lack of balance. My first character, at the time I stopped playing forever, was breezing through the game with relics that: Stunned every enemy, even bosses, for 6 turns at the beginning of every battle. Started enemies taking 110% damage. Started enemies with 7 poison. Started enemies with 7 incineration (fire poison). Gave me absurd defense every turn without playing defense cards. It's awful. It's really awful. Don't buy it. If you're looking for something a bit like slay the spire that isn't totally stupid, maybe try Neoverse. That's still under development as well, but it's fun to play and promising.

This shameless rip off is not even polished enough for early access. Frequent crashes, countless bugs, completely unballanced easy steam roll. This is a bad clone is a shamless money grab.

Don't buy this unfinished game. Slay the Spire is the same concept with good execution and balance. This game is unbalanced, easy as hell (when it works), and constantly freezing at reward screens which requires alt-f4 to close the program. Don't buy this game yet.

It just copy and paste "Slay the Spire", made the graphics worse and is ways to easy. All in all this game is a rip off and is really no fun to play. I really tried to give this game a chnace but it is just..... bad. with kind regards an demotivatetd gamer

This game is a blatant copy of Slay the Spire that in its current state is not even remotely close to being on the same level. Granted, I understand the game is still Early Access, but it completely lacks balance in terms of gameplay. Aside from that, there are plenty of very noticeable bugs ranging from trivial issues to critical blockers as well as unfinished UX and UI elements. This may be worth a play a few months down the road, but I would definitely hold off until the development team fine tunes the game. Undoubtedely, in its current state, you will find yourself comparing Spellrune to Slay the Spire (the original and premier game in this genre)... which will leave you majorly disappointed.

This is certainly a copy of slay the spire. There seem to have been too much work put into this to simply call it a cash grab but in it's current state there is no way I can recommend the game. I'll list my main issues below, 1. There doesn't seem to be any interesting synergies. One thing that makes these kind of card games fun is synergies between relics and cards (using slay the spire terminology). This game seems to have none. 2. Horrible balance issues in multiple areas. - It's just super easy to become incredibly OP - The paths the game generates are completely imbalanced (one path may have 2-3 treasures + 2-3 bonfires while the other path is mostly fights) - No real interesting cards. Just deal more damage, defend, heal or more mana or buff cards that buff the same stats. - I had easier battles later on in an act than earlier on, as in same enemies just fewer of them.. why? 3. UI is a copy of slay the spire just worse - You can't really view your cards - When you get a potion you can't replace your old ones, if you have full potion slots then you just can't take it. - You can't see what card upgrades will do before you upgrade - The UI actually locked up for me which ended my run since I couldn't do anything. In short I see one (or more) of three things being wrong with this game, 1. It's a cash grab ? 2. It's way too early for this game to release into early access, it needs a lot more work. 3. The developer has no idea what makes games like these good and just tried to copy slay the spire. I'm hoping it's number 2 because another good slay the spire like game would be nice, however I am refunding this for now as I suspect it may be number 1 / 3.

complete ripoff of "slay the spire" with a reduced price compared to them to bait people here. played one run - refunding now and staying away from this dev.

Shameless rip off of a good game - slay the spire. This game is utter trash. It copied all of the following from Slay the Spire: - layout - GUI - Map format - post battle rewards - elixers/potions - relics - enemy intent - upgradable cards - mini bosses - shop (and layout) - fireplaces - question marks The only thing "new" they add is instead of 3 characters to choose from, you get to choose 1 of 3 offensive types, and 1 of 3 defensive types. Technically this accounts for 9 combinations, but they don't really add much. The cards and characters aren't nearly as deep, they are just the same thing with slightly better stats. The enemies are all basically the same. The game is slow and buggy. Mine crashed right before the boss (I wanted to see if they added anything unique to the boss gameplay before I uninstalled).