Cardaclysm Review (Steam)

Face the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in epic card battles! Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four is a procedurally generated collectible card game mixed with action RPG elements. Collect creature and spell cards throughout your journey and unleash their power if anyone opposes you.

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 2.62GB Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Graphics-Resolution, v-sync, and ugly/fast mode.
• Card battler gameplay.
• You play on an isometric world and can collect items/upgrades and get into fights by walking up to enemies.
• Simple drag and drop controls for card playing.
• Put the same card on top of the other to upgrade them and right-click them to undo the upgrade.
• Card playing is governed by how many units you have and each card has a casting cost.
• Attacks can be made by a card instantly with no summoning sickness-type ailments.
• Book of magic-combine cards in here and manage your deck.
• After every encounter, you get random loot from a loot chest.
• When near the end of the level you open a portal but it also summons the big bad who will chase you, you can fight him (he’s very strong) or run away by outmaneuvering him on the map.
• Very easy to learn but it does have helpful text pop-ups as you play.
• Beautiful locations to explore.
• Has a loot lust feel to it.
• Artifacts-equip these for new powerful upgrades.
• Death-you loses random cards to the graveyard and has to earn them back.
• Can play the game with just a mouse.
• Artifacts-find/earn these to equip them.
• Traveling traders-swap a card for one of two offered, you have no choice on card up for offer.
• Game randomize every run/life.
• Altars-interact for a timed buff like do more damage or enemies have less health or do less damage.
• Pub- in between Realms (levels) you can free roam the pub and do trades, talk with NPC and take on optional side tasks.
• You can see the enemy’s attacks and if they are strong or weak before fighting.
• Can disregard cards and swap them out at the start of a battle. (Mulligan)
• Different biomes give different effects on battle.
• Cards can be managed in that you can add/swap cards that will show up randomly in-game.

Cons:

• Not the best tutorial help.
• Your resources needed to play cards don’t naturally come back so you have frequent “I can’t win” scenarios.
• Maps are basic in their layout.
• You don’t get an indication of where the exit is.
• The traders offer crap trades constantly.
• Feels more luck-based.
• Same cards over and over.
• Doesn’t have a set path or genre defined in a way as it tries to play it as a roguelike but it’s not but it is. Sound confused? Exactly.
• Just feels repetitive.
• No controller support.
• You have to clear the level of every enemy before the door opens despite having to pick up a key.