Draft of Darkness Bewertungen

The Game is not bad, but has some issues. I do still recommend it, as i had fun for a while, but also want to list what i found negative: 1) UI - Its kind of hard in later stages to keep track whats going on in combat. Its not rare to have 6-7 or more Buff/Debuff on an unit, (which can be three on each side) and the icons are not always easy to recognise, Also you never really know what an enemy can do unless you encountered it and have an amazing memory and prepare your teams items before entering a fight. Or : How much damage does a Card"really" do against this enemy? The Card says 19, but due to several things like armor or buffs you do only 12... This makes the combat slower than it has to be. It really could need some QoL features. 2) Deckbuilding overall : I found that the cards are not very "special" in terms of what they do. Most cards (like 80% of them) do need specific limited ressources besides energy to play them and those are usually very limited (or you have to use the "weak version" of the card which is most of the time just a very weak melee attack.) I dont want to go to much into detail here as it would be a long boring read, but all in all i found the system lacking. Its hard to really build good Decks unless you are very lucky with events and rewards. And since you are basicly forced to save up your ressources when ever possible this slows down combat. 3) Balance - Ok thats a strange one. I play on "Normal", and usually the fights are reasonable difficult. But that you stumble accros an "elite" fight that wrecks you. You Heroes have, unsless you push their vitality around 50-70 HP in the "midgame". Healing is somewhat hard to come by, and those elites can easily attack you 3-4 times a turn with 12-15 damage each attack (+ debuff effects) and have enough HP that even if you go FULL BERSERK will live until turn 3 or 4. you do the math. The Problem i have with this is : Unless you build in a VERY specific way to exakty counter this your run is over. And building your Deck/heroes/equipment is a lot RNG based. Also some buffs are incredible strong compared to others. In one run i basicly just used the "Curage" Card (which gives you more Power) and the oher card that gives you "Protection" for every "courage" Stack you have. The enemies did only 1 damage to me with every attack since armor is % based. Its kind of a strange system... Also, in regards of balance, i foudn the "level Up" Status System strange. You can increase one of 4 attributes, but some seem just weaker than others? (Hardiness for example gives you 0,03 speed and also "power" (which is basicly damage), why i ever would take Agility which gives 0.05 speed when i can just use an item that gives 0,7 (which is worth 14 points Agility) i have no idea :D Still : its not a bad game, it has some interessting stuff going for it. But it feels unpolished at the moment.

Draft of darkness ist ein kleines Meisterwerk meiner Meinung nach es hat eine Geschichte zu erzählen, die nur die Leute, die wirklich danach suchen und kämpfen offenbart wird. Vorab das Spiel ist Absolut nicht einfach ich habe hunderte, wenn nicht sogar tausende stunden in allen möglichen rogue like card games und ich muss sagen das hier ist eines der schwierigsten aber hier meine pro und contra liste Pros -Easy to learn hard to master -Intuitive Steuerung -Keinerlei Bugs -Viele Freiheiten, mit welchen Decks man spielt/gegen welche Gegner man kämpfen möchte -Stil und Soundtracks -Sehr hoher Wiederspielwert die Story wird immer weiter geöffnet in jeden neuen run Cons -Der Zufalls Faktor ist einfach oft viel zu hoch wodurch manche runs ganz einfach durch Pech beendet werden -Die kämpfe dauern Ewigkeiten was den Frust erhöhen kann das spiel einfach nie wieder anzufassen sollte man scheitern -Es gibt dinge die extrem stark hier sind, wo das Spiel einen aber nicht davor warnt, was die Länge eines runs und den Frust genauso in die Höhe treiben kann Fazit Ein unglaublich gutes spiel was aber durch Mängel sehr zurückgehalten wird ... trotzdem kann ich allen die slay the spire oder monster train mögen nur empfehlen wenigstens einmal die Demo zu spielen