Tamarak Trail Preview (Steam Demo)

by Jim Smale · Published June 15, 2023 · Updated June 14, 2023

For this Tamarak Trail Preview, we play a game that is a deck-building roguelike,v we’ll use a customizable dice set as you battle through randomly generated trails – full of loot, mysteries, and danger to protect inhabitants from the evil that has corrupted the trail. As a member of the Sturgeon Lodge: a secret society tasked with defeating a malevolent presence that has corrupted Tamarak Trail, it is your job to bring peace to all inhabitants.

Tamarak Trail Preview Pros:

Gorgeous storybook art-style graphics.
2.8GB Download size.
Controller support.
Graphics settings – resolution.
One playable character – Detective.
World map level select.
Resolve is a regenerative resource that is used for playing attacks and abilities in battle.
Dice rolling can be manual or automatic.
The dice face dictates what you can do like attack or defence etc.
Cool-looking animations.
Turn-based combat.
End of Battle rewards is picked from one of three offers.
Collect cards that have attacks and abilities, you then customize your dice by putting these card powers into the dice.
Dice customisation is displayed as an unwrapped dice pattern and you drag and drop powers/cards.
Multiple choice encounters on the map.
Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
Simple controls.
Satisfying combat.
Excellent animations.
Death animations are really good.
Earn and use more dice so you can do more.
Roguelike gameplay.
At the end of every run. You earn exp and unlock new abilities, dice, and characters.
The journal keeps all found cards listed hear.
Great art.

Tamarak Trail Preview Cons:

A lot of the early game is just guesswork for what abilities do etc.
Combat can outstay its welcome in encounters.
The rolling of dice is cool as hell but it feels a bit unneeded because it has a small area and they don’t seem to roll a lot.
The Flow is a bit stilted.
Could have been a better experience having the tutorials and a practice fight all handled within its own set piece then you do a run.
Obviously, it’s a demo so no Steam achievements.
Only the one graphics setting.

Tamarak Trail:

Official website.

Developer: Tamarak Trail

Publisher: Versus Evil

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Steam Demo