Retromine

Finally got it after many tries. I tried to win by considering all the cards and building synergies but truthfully it's just too difficult to get further than level 9 with that. 

My strategy for winning was to get a Walky Talkies in the early game and then hard commit on getting Gold Mines and building up my ore and score collection and pretty much nothing else.

Very good job, I can see you're actively working on it and I'm excited to come back a little later when it's more balanced.

Aquafer and any 0 cost that draws cards, win.

Addictive game! My only issue with it is how RNG dependent it felt. A lot of cards feel completely unviable past the 6th or so level and the scaling ramps up so fast that it feels like i basically have to get lucky and get enough of the cards I want/need to show up in the store.

There should be a way to cancel a card that got just played. I have lost many runs, just because of a misclick. 

I keep losing at level 9! I’m convinced Cirno has cursed me!

fun stuff, keep the good work!
I have played 1min and bought it to play more :3

Hello, this is a great game, very enjoyable mechanics and difficulty. However I bugged out with a wrench build playing a lot of actions. 
My cards are replaced by "card", and the screen froze, game is locked, I had to abandon the run.

Hypothesis for replication: may have been caused by the action card that puts discard pile into your drawing pile.

gold mine doesn't work as intended/how it reads, gave me 13 of a chosen resource when I had 13 in my deck, not 39... Either way...

Very fun, really easy to get addicted. My biggest complaint is the cost for removing cards from your deck has to be lower. It's so hard to effectively deckbuild with the current set up. 

3 possible type of decks I guess

Fourth try victory. Minecarts + Mineshaft spam with a lot of additional energy and draw. Score using a few "the creature" and one improved scorium.

Gameplay and a touch of critique ;)

First Victory and apparently one of the larger decks. Thanks to the gold mines. Took me quite a few attempts to finish it.

hi everyone, new minor update out today! it includes a new card by guest artist blazyo, some squashed bugs, and some minor balance changes.

the big announcement is a new community discord! join today!

https://discord.gg/zwquRzpQNY

I love the base concept, and I'm excited to watch the development of this game, but I have a few concerns that I hope will be addressed in the final product:

1) The difficulty - I think it's excellent that this game is so simple, but manages to be so tough. That said, the dramatic increase in Score required to beat the later levels means that there are very few strategies that actually stand a chance of winning and there are many *many* cards in the shop that are simply a trap. 

In most deck-builders that I've played, the base difficulty is approachable with a variety of strategies and allows the player to experiment with building their deck, while there will tend to be higher difficulty modes (like ascensions in Slay the Spire) that require the player to plan out their strategy more carefully. 

2) The pointless cards - This is an extension of the first concern, which is that there are many cards currently in the game that do not justify their inclusion in your deck (Ex. Smeltery is just a worse Fruit Bat, Anvil has far too much opportunity cost for the effect it produces). I'd love to see some synergy for animal cards or Tools, but as it stands now there is little reason to play anything other than the most efficient card draw (Minecart, Helmet, Ingot) and big Resource cards. Everything else only dilutes your chances of drawing the cards that actively win you the game.

3) The map - This is definitely personal preference, and not something that would make or break the overall game, but I feel that the map should be more than just flavor. If there were branching paths, that could alleviate some of the difficulty concern. Additionally, I think it would be interesting if the cards offered in the shop were influenced by the region (Ex: more animals for sale in the Buried Forest, or more Tools for sale in the Magic City, etc.)

I want to reiterate that I think this game is awesome, and none of these issues have dampened my enthusiasm to see where this game goes. I'll be following this one closely. 😁

Awesome game. Took quite some time to get to this point but grinding ressources only to stack them up with Gold mines finally got me through to the end. Really hyped for the continuation of this project. Congrats on making such a great game!

wow this is so well build. great job!

Game is so much fun
Is there any way to contact you on private?

Incredibly fun! First victory:

Still loving the small radar deck. Hoping for a game expansion with endless mode or harder levels. Thanks for the great game.

Fun but a lot of card feel like they do nothing card and Never seem to be drawn with synergies even when you got 5+ of them and removed 2 ores.A lot of cards have more UNsynergies and begining feels too tight where you basically get a amazing run and get shorted 1 score and die level 2 or get perfect score but no ore and no cards that help you survive. Some passive upgrades could probably help some what especially with synergies.

A few notes for possible future updates:

I think that the issue of creating the "placeholder" cards is when you are clicking through draw cards and your library hits zero before the discard pile gets shuffled back. They can get stuck in place weirdly and make it impossible to proceed.

On balancing, I think that the walkie-talkie, gold mine, and wrench strategies are too easy versus the various upgrading strategies. Especially, I'd like to see the anvil get a boost - I've tried to force it many times but have never been able to have all the pieces line up.

It would be really cool, if there was a way harder endless mode with bosses, where you could save some of your deck between runs. 

Basically you would earn gold in-game, and there would be a shop in the main menu where you can buy packs of card to add to your starting deck. Then have stuff like radar or gold mine be extremely rare.

Really enjoyed this game, wish there was more to it so i could play it for hundreds of hours

This is one of my favorite games on itch.io, had such a pleasure playing this! Beat it using only "gold mine" card and buying a bunch of more resource cards from shop. Towards the end, I was getting like 3-400 ores every round, and could just reroll the shop until i got more gold mines.

I would love to see more levels, or perhaps an endless mode, where it just keeps increasing. Perhaps, you could make it so every 5 levels is a boss, or something, where you could earn powerups or something more useful.

For balancing reasons, if you decide to make more levels, I would love to have more turns in a level at later stages - when the deck gets too big, you aren't getting through most of the deck in the few turns we have. Also, a way to start a turn with more than 3 energy would be nice (maybe that could be one of the powerups in endless mode)

Anyway, tysm for this game, it was a blast!!

My second complete run! This time with a shuffle deck + shovels.

Very entertaining!
Though the failed runs feel like there was no option to save it, especially if the run failed early.
The dominion style discard where one only discards the played cards at the end pose an interesting challenge and prevent one from going infinite.
I feel like you have got something rather promising here and I'm curious to see where you go!

Amazing.

Great concept, UI is snappy, visuals are crisp*... but it sorely needs a probability and balance pass, probably some deeper mechanics changes. Keeping up with the difficulty curve requires playing risky strategies -- if you have a deck that can hit the score target 90% of the time, you aren't likely to win 15 levels in a row. It's not really possible to build a consistent deck, especially on the levels with an odd number of hands.

*but could be more distinct -- when holding a lot of cards in hand, it'd be nice if it was easier to tell the low vs. high ore/scoriums apart.

Radar deck nearly perfected: grab 0 cost card draw to cycle through deck almost every round bulking and hitting the big scorium, then focusing on ore for blowing up unwanted cards. Good times. Thanks for the challenging game.

Great game. Tons of fun, though in the need of some balancing. In the later levels, seems extremely difficult to pass without having bulked up using radar. At that point, tools like chisel, which can be great early on, just get in the way. Since there's not much opportunity to dynamite them (or, I'd rather dynamite small ore or scorium), seems better to just never have them in the first place. I wonder about something like saw being used to deconstruct tools, or something to help the deck evolve and shed earlier items.