Cards n' Varmints

I really liked the game, I tend to play it when it gets a new update of some sort, I have finally managed to beat the hardest mode, here's what i think about most of the varmints:

medic: feels very..... win more, its doesn't feel very strong early or mid game, since it doesn't have that much health and healing such a minor amount isn't gonna matter much if it dies really easily. I suspect it will be better with the final release of the game when there are stronger enemies and varmints.

magician: looks strong on paper, but is just too frail and doesn't scale well late game, it's evolution, wizard shows some potential, but haven't really tested it.

soldier: extremely good early game, decent late game, but tends to fall off late game, resilient is a very strong ability, allowing it to survive multiple fatal wounds over the rounds, feel like its evolution, mercenary is also suited for late game with its ability to use points as extra damage, overall a pretty well balanced card that has its uses.

gym rat: very good varmint to have, can be a bit awkward to use but having 1 feels necessary due to how strong marathoner is, permanent stat buffs are very strong in this game, overall it's a strong varmint but is balanced by it's removal of stats and the necessity to evolve it quickly. 

farmer: the varmint seems really handy, synergizing extremely well with gym rat/marathoner due to it's ability to cycle cards quickly in hand plus it's evolution: chef, gives a varmint +1 +1 which is extremely useful along with having a slightly better version of the farmers cycling ability.

Saguard: really feel like this class was the strongest, my winning lineup for the final battle was 4 metal cactuses along with 1 saguard, I really feel like the pure stat buffs are just so strong throughout the game, saguard basically has "get 4 health deal 4 random damage" and metal cactus improves on that with dealing 1 damage at base stats which goes a long way when upgraded with chef and marathoner.

Overall, I felt like saguard was the best varmint, with gym rat and farmer being necessary to have for there stat buffs, soldier is decent with it's survivability, damage, and mercenary evolution. magician felt the weakest, while healer felt like it was a bit weak now but might be more viable when the game comes out and there's more waves of enemies.

nice game pardner

"what am I, some kinda gulch guardian?"

hiii, i hope you're still active, i sent a friend request on discord! the game is brilliant!!!

THERE’S CUTSCENES NOW???????

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA??????

yeah i’m picking this back up 

time for my cacti gang to once again dominate 

this team is insane

This was fun! It took a couple of job ups to discover a real synergy (big shot and metal cactus), but when I got there I was untouchable til the end. I also like that I didn't play the tutorial and was still able to figure it all out on the fly.

music is a bop

cool

Damn, this game made me interested in the deck building genre, thanks for that! (Amazing game btw, hoping all goes well til it realeases)

is the music available or for sale somewhere? extremely catchy soundtrack

What an amazing experience, parder

The game is so good and the pixel art is probably the best I've seen! Probably one of the best games I have played on here. But one small suggestion I have is to add a "Load Feature" that resumes a run if you exit out of a tab. Tysm for making this game and updating it regularly

full marathon build for the win yaaaaaaa love this game

Yo this game is great, fantastic work! I really dig the aesthetic and the personality added to the varmints, and the class system is super fun. I'm a little nervous to try a different scenario, I was so pumped on my first loadout after I achieved infinite Chemist heals with my marathoner bros

Really fun and quite unique, i really love the Wild West style it has to it too! I just kinda wish that maybe if you win, you get to keep the bloom ribbons you have for a future game, idk, it's cause sometimes it just feels useless to have em there at the end at least...

One of the best games I've played on this website !

The job system reminded me a bit of Fire Emblem / Final Fantasy Tactics, it's really well done !

Can't wait for the steam release !

I really enjoyed this!  I love the way the music changes.  The jobs seem really creative and I like how many options there are in combat.  The pixel art is a little rough, but I can see this shaping up to be really cool!

wow

that pretty much summarizes my reaction to this update

i went from being able to beat this blindfolded..

..to struggling to survive more than 10 days.

the reserve mechanic was a good idea

and now i can’t just simply rely on marathoner to get me through everything

i have yet to win again..

i give this update 7 vbucks out of 3 sugar cubes

So, a marathoner and a herbalist are unbeatable once herbalist gets around 10 attack, after that you can increase attack of marathoner once or more to not get stalemate defeat. You can sprinkle some bigshot on top for that sweet-sweet extra draw, just don't make him evasive, it may or may not break stuff after he gets mild again.

How to solve? Maybe add healing reduction or enemies which heal when your squad heals (maybe excluding healing from cards), but I'm not a game designer so adding "healing stealing" may or may-not make the players who use marathoner-herbalist combo unknowingly dig their own grave and be frustrated.

just learned that characters with the mild trait can actually attack under..

certain circumstances

cool game btw

This is a really nice prototype! The difficulty level is brutal though, and even when I get high-roll stats at the beginning I still get rocked.

And I am a Super Auto Pets sweat with tons of victories! I have to ask, have you ever been able to win this? or were you not concerned with the balancing yet because it's still a prototype?