u/unseendomains

We prefer the version with the fire to the original. But the area is supposed to be old abandoned ruins where you fight zombies. If it's abandoned and only the dead are walking around, who lit the fires?

Our game is a mechanic-first deckbuilder, isn't narrative heavy. We set the atmosphere mostly through visuals. Three of us have been going back and forth on it. Sometimes it feels like nobody will care, just ship the better-looking one. Other times the inconsistency feels like the kind of small thing that quietly stacks up and breaks the world.

Curious how other devs would handle this. Hold the line on logic, or let the prettier one win?

We've been building Monastery for five years. Roguelite deckbuilder where your gear is your deck. Three equipment slots, three options each. Every weapon has its own card pool.

The Tome is the last one. It is our third and final off-hand class, alongside shields and daggers. Where shields keep you alive and daggers keep you fast, the Tome rewards patience with massive payoffs.

48 new cards, 6 new keywords, 3 Books to choose from (Spirits, Bones, Flesh) and 10 new Boons.

Game is 30% off for Deckbuilder Fest through May 11. The demo is also updated.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1731410/Monastery/

Would love to hear what you think if you give it a go.

Slay the Spire is what got me started on Monastery about 5 years ago. I love that game, but there were systems I kept missing from other games I play, so I wanted to build them in.

Of course a single character can't really be tactical. Or so I thought. We came up with the dual-sided battle system and built everything else around it. There's a lot of logistics when you're being hit from two sides with different kinds of attacks, and the waves just keep coming. You stop optimizing the perfect turn and start asking which side you can afford to ignore.

Beyond combat we expanded on other RPG aspects. Your character isn't a class, it's the gear you put on. Each piece of equipment dictates what cards are in your pool. Sword and shield plays nothing like pistol and dagger. Three slots, dozens of combinations, and each biome punishes you differently so you have to pick the right loadout.