Bloodletter

Ngl, this is actually one of my favorite card games now, i recorded a video of it in June, and im still thinking about this game. Its so good. Btw i uploaded the video if anyone is interested. Luv ya <3

Nice 👍

I really enjoy the gameplay. 

It has some great medieval atmosphere that feels unique. 

There are a few issues, when cards are maxed out, the game sometimes bugs out. Causing cards to appear out of place.

 Some of the characters feels off—almost like they were pulled from a different game, More art plzzz

It would be interesting to introduce new card mechanics, like "Starve" or "Fatigue" effects that impact character performance over time. That could add another layer of strategy.

One small issue: the exit button is too easy to click by accident. A confirmation popup or better placement would help avoid unintentional quits.

Despite the early issues, i would say it could make a hit. It has potential and a card system that`s fun to play.

I'm ngl, its pretty good but there are definitely either some bugs, or some weird things. for instance, I get if you loose four villagers, you loose the run, however you cant complete the game with only 7 people. the last one is 720, and 7 people can only give 700 air purity. another bug I found was that if you got TOO MANY cards when you draw, they would go offscreen, AND stay in-between runs. I'm not trying to hate on the game here,  its definitely a very fun game to play.

I played this at the presentation day at the university during the DE:HIVE this summer, and I was SO HOOKED. Glad to see it released. Just LOVE IT :D

i am absolutely unhinged about this game. i played for three hours yesterday and i can't stop thinking about it. i would die for these villagers. i would give my left arm so they have enough to eat. you absolutely nailed the tone with the art and the difficulty and the game loop is addicting. i keep coming back to it just to try new strategies. i literally can't wait for a full release.

Precious design, really good game! 🤎

The designs in this game are exceptionally exquisite and unique. In tandem with the musical ambience, you have an atmosphere down pat here that is both perturbing and alluring as all hell. I love it.

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAA I WINNNN

Glitch: Potion of Consumption, Butcher's Nail, and that other one that you start with will occasionally cause disbelief, and something i'm calling super disbelief because it makes you have one card placement

good fun game but please add harder modes i can't stop accidentally winning in the middle of my master plans (:

heh funny font

This is an awesome prototype! I really feel like this is the perfect base for a full game, which could be an expansion of what is here. There a clear path for more complexity and/or difficulty. I did not find the demo difficult at all, so maybe future developments could ramp it up? Maybe the demo could be the tutorial/initial phase, as it explains the mechanics well and it's not hard. Great work! I love it!

I particularly like the art and character design. It's so charming and it all ties so well with the theme of tarot cards. Visually and stylistically, it's all done so well. Mechanically too, clearly, with the above note of the difficulty but it's definitely going in a good direction.

A minor thing that could be fixed is the position of the help windows when hovering over a UI element, as now it is partially obscured by the pointer. That is the only problem I encountered (I could still read 95% of the text, so it's not a huge deal but still a clear thing to fix).

Thanks for the experience! I had much fun playing it. I had some issues with the text font, but overall a great game!

Took me more days than maybe needed, but won and really enjoyed my time with the game! 

Game feels and looks good, could use a little more polish and ux stuff. What I'd also do is make some animations a bit faster (especially the card OnHover, sfx is crisp & nice / animation feels slow). Overall a very pleasant experience

cool concept, beat it in 19 days after creating a decent combo (45 purity + 10 health card, health lock card, belief card)

Love everything about this!

Character design is beautiful, music and sound is incredibly well chosen. However when u move the curser over something with an explanaition , the hand blocks off certain letters so that you cant quite read some letters and sometimes the font is too like cursive (if that makes sense) so that you cant read it properly if its this small. But overall great game great execution and i will be playing this very often from now on.

This was quite interesting, but I think I ended up softlocked on the last bloodstone. I needed 720 to win but only had 7 villagers remaining.

Art is great, gameplay fun, I would like to play more! It is very cool game, great job!

I really enjoyed the game. Keep developing it.

The art, characters, and aesthetics are great and the gameplay is something different from your everyday card battler. But I found it quite an easy game to solve, if you create a +35 Purity card in your first 2 turns and then copy it in your next 2. If you want the game to be more of a challenge I suggest doing something like, only villagers you didn't treat offer their abilities. Or at least having the selection of abilities be more limited and random. Or changing the duplication ability (maybe it can only hit an unaltered card).

Also in the card designs, some are clearly better than others; -2 sick and -1 sick/+15 purity are both better than -1 sick which in turn is better than -1 sick only if 50+ health. Sticking to balancing more powerful effects with drawbacks is a good plan.

I didn't like the coin flip abilities, but I did like the play where you intentionally damage a character at 100 health so you can heal them up again and get the bonus card. True medieval leechcraft!

Fun core loop and absolutely gorgeous art. Love the designs of all the townspeople.

love the game yall slayed

Really enjoyed my playthrough! It'd be cool to see what you add to the "finished" version since the gameplay itself feels quite solid. I really enjoyed the visual style and colour as well as the tension of balancing everyone's stats. All the best!

Love that game! The artworks are excellent, and the gameplay is well-calibrated!

Super cool game, the characters look incredible and the 2D artists did an outstanding job overall. It would be nice to see dialogues or anything that could characterize them more. If more world building could be added, it could really keep people hooked. I'll keep an eye out for this project!

Took me 28 days to win... super fun though!!! Really cool game. The entity can be a little bit annoying with the Purity draining but I really liked the strategy

I'm very happy to see a deckbuilder that does things a bit differently from the million spire-likes, specially if it looks this cool. The basic mechanisms show potential.
Can I suggest you remove the enemy? the game doesn't really need it, it just represents a couple of parameters, and would move this further away from all those "fight the baddie" deckbuilders.

Got it in my first playthrough, genuinely brilliant idea for a game and I'm a massive fan of the art direction as well as just how much art there was. Like, the entity looks so grim/odd in an ancient magik sort of way which fits well with the overall theme and adds so much potential lore and mystery, can't wait for this to be fleshed out further lol. The gameplay loop was so satisfying too, it's rare for me to be this passionate and have so many ideas about a game i randomly found.

Compliments aside, a few of my bullet points for suggestions:

- Let the villagers have personalities and talk to you as they come, maybe they comment about others dying or complaining about their day to day struggles, perhaps allowing the player to input or respond to something they say which affects the gameplay in some way like cards or stats.

- The game kind of stagnates after a while, since the difficulty doesn't really increase much but you're getting stronger and stronger, until eventually you're just spamming all your cards to fill the purity requirement for the entity without needing to think. Maybe make the villagers need more resources as time goes on, adding different types of sickness, more goals, levels?, more cards, events/catastrophes, etc. The possibilities are crazy.

- Maybe allow other people other than strictly the villagers to come and ask for help every now and then

- I really liked the mechanic where you got blessing cards as rewards for doing well, but maybe make them less frequent because I was getting them too often and that cheapened them, I felt.

Hey! just found the game and played the prototype, honestly fun to play, eager to see how it develops. ¿Have you thought of doing challenge situations similar to monster train 2? i think it would be a nice idea to investigate since the game idea and loop is fun and original. Lovely art style, keep doing what you do !

Genuinely fun to play, though I struggled in the beginning until I learned to get some health regeneration. Fantastic game loop; even greater art style. 

On my first playthrough, I needed to reach 720 points to get the final Bloodstone, but 3 villagers had died & the 7 remaining villagers could only get a maximum of 700 Purity. It seems mandatory to keep 8 villagers alive, with 3 deaths being the end of the game rather than 4.