u/N3mEee

Hey, solo dev here.

For the past year I've been building ȘEPTAR, a roguelite deckbuilder built on Șeptică — a Romanian shedding card game basically everyone there grows up playing. Shortest pitch I've got: Balatro-ish scoring (chain cards, fire them for points × mult) but you're racing a live opponent to a target score instead of beating a blind. Between races you draft relics, burn and forge cards in your deck, and climb a ladder of Romanian folklore opponents until you're playing cards against Death himself. Don't worry if you've never heard of Șeptică — there's a tutorial, and most of my current testers hadn't either.

The game itself is finished (59 relics, 4 characters, ascension tiers, daily runs, endless mode, even 1v1 against a Steam friend). What I can't do anymore is see it with fresh eyes, and that's where I'm stuck.

Stuff I genuinely don't know and need strangers to tell me:

I recently made races longer (raised the target score) and I honestly can't tell anymore if the new pacing feels good or if it drags. I also removed the cap on huge chain fires, so an 8+ card chain now pays out something absurd — I want to know if landing one feels like hitting a jackpot or like you broke the game. And if you've got a friend willing to try the PvP mode, that would be huge — it's synced peer-to-peer and so far exactly one pair of humans has tested it (me and my friend). Beyond that: anything confusing, anything that soft-locks, anywhere the tutorial loses you. Be blunt, you won't hurt my feelings.

To get in: Steam page below, hit "Request Access" under the playtest section and I'll approve you. Windows only for now.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4866700/Septar/

For feedback just comment here or post on the Steam playtest discussions, whatever's less annoying for you. No forms, no NDA. A run is maybe 20–40 minutes and even one run's worth of impressions helps me a lot. If you do report something, mention the version number from the corner of the title screen so I know which build you were on.