Can’t believe this game wants me to pay one time to unlock the full game. Why didn’t they slow your progress down and force you to buy gems to speed up building progress and play ads every time you loop around the map. I need roadblocks in my game so I lose interest in them after I am forced to drop 10 .99 every day to speed up my building progress. I don’t think the developers understand how gaming works today. You make a game then you strip out all the features and put them behind multiple paywalls and let the player spend small amounts of money until it accumulates to hundreds of dollars then you stop plaiting the game for a week and your so far behind you have to spend more money to catch back up. Instead these geniuses are asking for just one purchase at the INSANE price of $7. You saw that correctly fokes. A game with 20-40 hours of content for 10% of the price of a AAA game with 10 hours of content. Remove this from the App Store and add in the proper amount of roadblocks so we can buy our way out of it.

I just wanna say how shocked I am by how much is packed into this tiny download. You can quickly tell this title was created by people who love what they are doing. Next I want to say how thankful I am for growing up when I did.. these people posting 1 star reviews due to having to simply pay for a product should honestly be ashamed. Where does that kind of entitlement come from? Their parents? How hard is it to understand that people have worked hard to bring this game to us. Spent time away from their families and loved ones. Stayed up late into the night, giving us the fruit of their blood sweat and tears. Why wouldn’t it be fair to ask for compensation for a provided service? For those of you STILL complaining that this title costs money you should really just be ashamed it this point. It’s a great game. It deserves our praise and our money. Devs thank you all for your hard work!

This game is very addicting, invoking the ‘just one more turn’ mentality. It’s the perfect game for mobile since you can spend minutes on it, or hours if you want. There’s no mobile dark patterns design in here, just a game for the sake of having fun playing. You get a free trial which is the perfect amount of trial to get to know the game, then a small one-time fee to unlock the full game which is still cheaper than the cheapest freemium tier currency purchase on almost every other mobile game these days. The only critique I have is that some of the stats are a bit underpowered. Vampirism drops off in usefulness very fast, and some talents are giving you like +3 hp in turn 5 when enemies are starting to hit for like 20.

Overall it’s an absolutely amazing game that you should definitely play. The only reason I give it 4 instead of 5 stars: the rng can sometimes really really really screw your run, which is completely understandable in these types of games. But when that happens several runs in a row I pretty much just totally lose interest. It would be AWESOME if the rng could be tweaked so that certain cards would have a higher or lower percent of showing depending on other cards. Like for instance I HATE the village and wheat fields like a passion because my hand will fill up completely full of wheat fields. But I’ll never get a single village card. So the wheat fields are totally unplayable and therefore deleting cards that I WANT to keep. Beyond frustrating. So when that just keeps happening: I’m done.

I love this game so much. Third time I've bought it now, and I'm happy to play it some more. I wish I could transfer my save from PC over, but oh well. The only issue I have is that iCloud/Game Center save syncing doesn't work at all. I've tried so many things. Rebooting each device, making sure there isn't a conflicting save on the other device, multiple connection points, giving it several hours to ensure it syncs, copying the save to another slot and seeing if that kicks it in, deleting a fresh save on the other device in hopes of maybe "clearing" space for the save. So far, nothing at all has worked.

Loop Hero is inventing a genre, the way Slay The Spire created roguelite deck builders. Perhaps not the first, but first to get it right. It doesn’t seem like much at first, but give it some time. As you build out your base and learn how to strategically place your map tiles, the game comes alive. The description says you don’t control combat—but by your gear selections and how you arrange the path, you absolutely do. 5 Stars for gameplay, 4 for graphics which I hope are better on a sequel, but turn on the pixel shader, it helps a lot. This is a unique, well designed game I will be playing for a long time.