Hellscaper
Experimental Balance Update!
Hey it's an update! After a while! Why?
Is it bug fixes? no......... yeah I know I need to get on those - but you know what's more fun? MORE CARDS!
OK enough with the leading questions
I gave a talk recently about deckbuilder roguelikes! In the process of doing that, I interviewed a bunch of smart developers and I learned a bunch! One of the things I realized is that the deck strategies in Hellscaper were way too set. There were basically 3 different decks you could make, and your job was just to assemble them. No more!
I rebalanced all the cards so they have more *cross synergies*. You can still draft a #fire deck (although you'll notice that cinders now only needs 3 adjacent fire, and cinder demon only gives 7 points to compensate), but there are many more options now. How about the priest, who gains a bonus from adjacent tiles with "No Effect"? Or THE TOWER, which checks how many #darkness tiles are _below_ it on the board?
Everything in the game got a pass with an eye for this. I also decreased your number of rerolls to 1. I know that might be a little sad (rerolls are fun!) but having less rerolls means having to roll with the punches a bit more, and I think you'll end up drafting more interesting decks as a result. I'm curious what you think though - do you like the new changes? Let me know! (comment works great, or filling out our feedback form https://forms.gle/VNMR2WvXr57KkYTr5)
Cheers,
-Ezra
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Hellscaper
Occult Tilebuilder Roguelike
| Status | In development |
| Authors | Ezra Szanton, Fergus Ferguson |
| Genre | Strategy |
| Tags | City Builder, cultist, Dark, Dark Fantasy, Deck Building, Fantasy, Horror, Roguelike, Singleplayer |
More posts
- 5/6/23 Hellscaper DevlogMay 06, 2023
- Hellscaper Patch Notes 4/14/23Apr 15, 2023
- Hellscaper Beta! (Occult tiling deckbuilder)Apr 08, 2023
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heyo. enjoy the game a lot. just have a quick critique about the game. it seems the only valid strategies for winning seem to be reliant on a card type I call absorbers. these are cards that collect other cards for points. usually temple and werewolf are the ones I end up building. I'd really like to see more variety in winning strategies. maybe it'd be fun if fire did mild conversion things as well. I only know about 4 cards that are of the fire strategy. I could see cards like burning effigy or arsonist really helping out their tactics. that just an example you guys can use.
I'm new to the game, but I'd prefer if instead of rerolling both cards, you could reveal 2 more cards (leaving the previous 2 there) or you can reroll cards individually twice instead so you can choose between a pragmatic option (gargoyle -> hellfire) and something that changes strategy more.
It would also be nice to add a bit more options for deck management. Like a card bank and/or a way to get multiple cards in one selection. As-is certain options don't make sense when you get them early on. There are probably interesting ways of dealing with that, though I would probably make it something that works in the early game (block discarding/splitting or some buff(s)/alternatives to Maw).
Something annoying I just noticed: if you get a temple and reaper in the same block, the temple will absorb the reaper first but then the reaper (which again, isn't there) destroys the temple anyway.
EDIT: And 145 on round 4 because I placed an angel on my last turn and it did not convert (despite being connected directly to a bloodriver)