All told, a very unsatisfying experience. These characters will impact the kinds of cards you are able to find throughout the game world, which offers a number of draft spaces the player can access through clever play. But I have a feeling that the game literally goes easy on you for your first play, and if that's true, I don't like it. Roguebook first tasks the player with creating a team of two unique characters to tackle three chapters in the cursed book of the title’s name. Now, this COULD be because they keep adding new cards as you progress (you pick up these map pieces that add cards, I think I ultimately got about 80 of them), and IMHO the new cards never impressed - maybe my hands literally got worse. I read online of a few people saying they got super far on their first attempt. Then reality hit and I never got past the 2nd boss. Oh, one other thing that was weird: Literally my first or second time through, I got through to the 3rd (final? I'm not sure) boss, farther than I would ever get again, after perhaps 50 runs. Indeed, sometimes I'd even get cards that DID kind of play off one another, but I'd literally lose quicker than when I simply had a bunch of stand-alone high-damage cards. There is a certain joy I've felt with games like Slay The Spire, where I get a deck that really works together and it feels awesome. I don't think I ever played a single round where I felt my deck had any sort of strategy - you simply don't have enough control over your hand to accomplish that. Preorder the Deluxe Edition and get 48 hrs early access before the games official release. Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique. Preorder to gain immediate access to the Roguebook demo and, as soon as the game is released, get the Heroes Skins Pack DLC, including 4 different outfits for the heroes, for free. Very few cards play off one another, and there is a heavy bias in favor of continually adding new cards to your hand (lest you miss some rather key abilities that are based upon the number of cards you have). This item will be sent to your system automatically after purchase. But the cardplay itself (the essence of the game) is positively terrible. This game is physically beautiful, the map dynamic is novel, and after my first few runs, I really felt like this was a winner.

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