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Seems you broke it so that running out of health no longer triggers the death screen! I did like the ending though; not sure the largely-RNG mechanics would have ever let me see it outherwise.

All the art is beautiful, the music's decent, the plot works. The mechanics could use some reworking, though. There's seemingly no interactivity during battles, so the only gameplay is build/inventory management - but which organs drop with what modifiers is almost completely random, so it's almost entirely up to RNG.

(It might also help if I knew what all the stats meant - I don't even know what Words do exactly - but even if that was totally transparent, it'd still be an RNG-powered autobattler that tries to kill you, and because of the massive enemy-attack-speed jumps every area, succeeds.)

That said, the idea of an empty-chested knight and his ghostly lover stealing organs on their quest to claim the heart of a deity is a good one, and I expect it'll stay with me. I'd love to see more polished explorations of the concept, maybe with 'digestion' or 'connection bonus' mechanics.

First time I died I lost all my organs and suddenly had no attack speed whatsoever? It's also unclear whether organs in the head slot are active or not; I collected a Core while I had a Brain there, and the Core went missing.

Edit: I reloaded the game and died again, and the zero attack speed problem happened again.

Oh, the Amplifiers are clearly distinct from the Deflectors, and probably much newer than them in-universe. I wasn't talking about those at all.

It kind of has to be legal, because otherwise Steam would be declaring war on all sales-on-other-platforms-but-not-on-Steam, including the popular megabundles, even if they don't provide Steam keys - which would be nuts. They have an obvious and legitimate interest in discouraging people from buying Steam's own services for cheaper than the way that gets Steam money, but not in restricting sale of non-Steam products, i.e. the games themselves.

One cannot always trust lawyers to be reasonable. However, you probably can trust it if you've emailed them saying "this is my understanding of the contract, tell me within two business weeks if it's wrong" and gotten no response within a fortnight. (I am not actually a lawyer, and my having-of-legal-opinions is not endorsed by an academy of law, nor am I in a position to pay reparations if you get sued and the courts turn out to be spectacularly corrupt my advice leads you astray. Heed it at your own risk, small though I judge that potential risk to be.)

It might go better to call the keyless-version-at-current-price a bundle sale that you just happen to run most or all of the time?

Hm. Does the Steam contract allow you to have multiple pricing levels on other platforms, where people can pay the difference in order to also get a Steam key?

This looks like one of those cool charity megabundles I like to get, but there' a ticking countdown and no clear way to purchase it, so I'd like to confirm that the sale hasn't started yet before the timer finishes.

Thanks!

Eh... sorta. It's definitely got too large a share of the 'uncomplicated way to play more of your hand/deck' advancements, and it'd feel nicer if it had an ongoing upgrade rune - maybe a stronger version of Herd Support, to incentivize keeping it in hand? (Herd Support itself needs a clearer dropdown description, incidentally; I thought it triggered when the Elk was played.)

So what are all the classes? Valkyrie, Gambler, Some Kind Of Healer Swordswoman, Blade, Priest, Vessel, Spearguy, Thug, who am I missing?

Hm. I like the mechanics, but the underclad ladyghosts make me uncomfortable; I would enjoy this game a lot if not for the bikini-or-naked-Barbie enemies.

I think the current prestige mechanic is kind of a problem, because it effectively boots you back to the tutorial before most of your cards are at all interesting. The second card type is cool but held back by a subtle cost: adding cards doesn't increase draw rate, so the already-good cards and combos are less likely to show up. Leviathan is sort of a compensation for this, but it's overpriced and the transient rune to make its mechanic work is more efficiently placed on a Herd elk.

Wanderer is a little boring for how powerful it is. Surely it could get an upgrade to do something weirder, like giving you another energy if you have zero energy when it triggers. That'd be a luck-pushing incentive.

What'd you change? I was worried about the tile highlights from when you click a spore spire; I know that the creepers aren't blocked by the now-far-worse-than-useless anti-space-cannon-shields for presumably the same reason cars aren't, but the radioactive spore spewers seem like they'd be somewhat more impeded by them.

New bug report: The deflectors don't actually block Spore Spires, but they look like they do in the highlight preview. And I'd been excited to see the deflectors actually being useful, too...

I really like the teleport FX, and am hoping that lightning's a placeholder; it's too long to be a sudden flash, but too short to feel barbed and convulsing.

Yeah, I figured out that I could make it go on by destroying uninfected tiles I would have preferred not to destroy pretty much immediately, but didn't really want to destroy the implicit biodiversity (and potential food sources etc) when it was clearly not necessary.

Maybe just special-case it for if all remaining infected tiles are indestructible, you can click an indestructible tile and Wait?

Fascinating; I'm learning as many as several new things today. I am also updating quite a bit upward on how complicated Vapor Trails must have been to code, if this is simpler.

(Not actually that surprising given the combo system, I guess, not that I paid much attention to it; I was mostly there for the art and the mobility tech.)

I finally beat Level 33 with no house losses, and I have a feature request for being able to wait a turn without doing anything, on purpose - the last infected tile was an Ocean, and thus indestructible.

Finished the game! Final boss was very tough, in a too-random feeling way; having non-skeleton summons never drop gems broke the loop of being able to use two shorter paths in a turn, and melee is most of your possible damage output, so fireball was nearly useless by the time I got it. Cross also felt powerful but slightly overpriced. At a guess I'd try doubling fireball damage and reducing Cross to 25 tiles?

Oh, this is frustrating. See, the armor upgrade fails to reduce damage to 0 under any circumstance, but does not tell me this, so I have what should by rights be an invincible build (3 armor) to slowly chip the Master down, but I simply don't have the bust limit to beat her in the game as actually implemented. I would have made different build choices if I'd known.

Very fun! Game breaking glitch with fireball somehow, though, and I'm not sure what caused it. Second Green level I think - starts with a Big Slime and the boss is a Squidface - and I'd started turn on a hatching egg, so a Common Kobold was on top of me, and I tried casting a Fireball centered on the boss, in hopes that it would do 36 damage total - and the dev console said something like 'clone tile already present', and wouldn't let me Undo, and I closed the console in hopes that that was the problem but now I can't cast spells, undo, or end turn. I can still read unit and spell descriptions?

Sorry I didn't get the actual error code. :(

Edit: I was able to reload the browser and restart the level from the map, though, so that's nice.

Kinda fun, yes, but why is it named Lemmings? That's actually pretty confusing, given the classic routing-simple-creatures-by-promoting-them-to-different-roles game series.

Pretty sure it's draugar or draugs - Old Norse uses r endings for pluralization. I like the art though.

The firebreak nature of this game feels like it should be a whole genre. I don't know if I've seen something as focused on logistical horror as this before, and it feels like a really obvious theme.

The level where Covemonty is connected to three ice cubes is bizarrely glitchy, and I don't know the intended solution or if it's actually possible. Glitch specifics: pushing a block into the water makes the ice able to push it further somehow?

Edit: Okay it probably wasn't a glitch, just very poorly documented.

Burst has an owner and thus seems to be a command card rather than a script card - probably that should be clarified with an on-card type field?

Very pretty, but the fencing was sufficiently obtuse that I died a lot and lost track of the atmosphere. Also, I don't know what the hint for the lockbox is, although it's probably something to do with the teardrop symbol on the sun painting and the four dots on the melted armor - but the group portrait looked like a hint, and apparently wasn't? And I'm not sure whether the cube shield was a hint for that or the alchemy lab. The interface was too annoying to brute force, though.

And I didn't find a use for the heated blanket. I'm guessing you have four routes past the monster, and they are swordfighting, music, poisoned meat, and meat-plus-a-meal. Maybe swordfighting doesn't work? It seems a shame that only one obstacle has multiple intended solutions.

I also wonder if this had some influence on Nowhere Stars, or if it's merely convergent evolution/shared influence from Dark Souls. The less-obviously-doomed ending was still pretty weird for suggesting you need brighter light, though. And I'm really surprised that the bells can actually hold back the precession of the sun, rather than just shielding the locals from its influence to some degree.

Hm.

Strongly seconded. When I want a random game to play, being able to actually filter out the Endless Sexy Cannibals would be really really helpful.

Almost certainly.

Well, this was cool and I hadn't heard of it before, so this was neat for at least one person.

A considerable refinement on Demonbones, which I played second. I quite liked this.

(A way to find out what pieces actually do before taking or not taking them might be nice, but it's probably not essential at this deck size and game length. I think I'd enjoy a multiplayer version.)

The last puzzle was frustrating - I figured out roughly what needed to happen, took ages trying to make it work, and then solved it by accident - but the ending was kind of charming.

I was initially interested because the thumbnail looked like a good match for a Millennial Scarlet game.

...Reading more deeply, no, this game's about trying to solve demonic catastrophes because you're the only ones who can, despite the fact that this will draw government attention and the government basically always presumes people who come to its attention are subversive elements (whom it should, coincidentally, enslave). Millennial Scarlet is about living in a world where the American government claims to have won a war with Hell, has outsourced most building exorcisms to the moderately incompetent private sector, and is generally a lot more boring and frustrating than scary, even when they're being super shady.

Still, it might be an interesting contrast.

They state that they corrupt Villagers but don't explicitly specify that it's only villagers, and it's one of those things that are hard to keep track of during the transition from a friendlies-who-tell-the-truth-and-enemies-who-lie paradigm to a friendly/unfriendly-versus-truthful/lying four-option matrix, deserving of special highlighting I think. I also missed that the Poisoner only targets cards right next to it initially, possibly because the terminology wasn't standardized with the # Cards Away abilities.

I think what I'm saying is that a glossary/rules reminder guide would be helpful. :)

I think there needs to be a much more obvious reminder that Outcasts can't be corrupted, then. It'd go a long way toward explaining why I went from winning perfectly to dying very frequently when the Poisoner showed up.

I'm trying to download the game and it's telling me that the download failed? I've tried downloading both the Linux and Windows versions; neither has worked.

Wait what? Not just the immediately adjacent cards? That was not at all obvious from the Alchemist's description, and makes him much more powerful.

My confusion remains; why is the Plague Doctor not corrupted, despite being next to a Pooka? It doesn't have the Corrupted flag, and is stating accurately that Alchemist is not corrupted. Are Plague Doctors, undocumentedly, immune to Corruption?

What happened here? Do multiple Corruptions cancel out, making it so the Plague Doctor's corruption undid the Pooka's? Or is it actually that coruptors can only work if they're revealed before their neighbors? I'm deeply confused.

(Forgot to send a bug report while I was still on the screen. Sorry.)

The bank display appears to stay the same at all times?

Good game! Bug reports:

*Phase just doesn't seem to work at all.

*The conveyor-belt wood moves in response to my arrowkeys, quite quickly.

Hmm. The boss fight being 'traumagenic plurality' seems significantly more offensive than you probably intended.