Recent reviews by Kira

Bad. Upgrades cap too soon. The end sequence is stupid. The most interesting upgrades are locked in a way that you probably won't find before beating the game unless you look it up. And then it's one time use not refillable.

The game peaks and stops evolving too quickly. With way too much left to reach the final milestone which it doesn't really do a good job at indicating is the final milestone which leads to it just abruptly ending.

2024 GOTY. Nothing has exceeded it. Nothing probably will.

Game of the Year 2023. No contest. No argument. There is nothing better.

Create an 8 hour portal experience and fill 70% of it with the worst, most frustrating, boring bits of portal and then you have Portal Revolution

Despite almost 5 years this game is still nowhere close to being ready for prime time.

A great game absolutely ruined by mistaking bad game design with "hardcore difficulty"

I mean just look at that playtime. Need I say more?

It is deeply sad that this game fails to be what it could have been, what it should be.

Between the far too tightly tuned time mechanics, massive RNG dependence, the game also fails miserably on the UI front, missing the kinds of quality of life features a game of this caliber should have.

The shop should allow you to sort ingredients, the options you do have for sorting in the potion making menu should be greater, there should be some mechanic to save potion recipes. Ultimately it becomes impossible to keep track of everything without it being a massive chore. Every little interaction seems to take too long or should't be there at all(switching between the floors of your shop, or switching between cauldrons for example). These are just a few of the terrible UI/QOL failures.

Every single mechanic plays off each other in such a way that you quickly find yourself with no options. This costs gold, that costs ingredients, this costs potions. Everything requires such careful and deliberate planning days in advance or your're screwed. And once you're screwed it's a game over. Reload back and try again.

Sadly the actual card battle game play itself also misses the mark and once again feeds back into the impossible interconnectivity presented by the game. If you don't block well enough, you accumulate stress. If you accumulate stress you start drawing "curses". If your hand is full of curses you can't achieve good results in your haggling and you accumulate more stress. How do you deal with stress? Spending a unfathomable amount of your preciously limited time, putting you even further behind in all your goals.

They missed the mark on balancing the cult management and the rougelight dungeon crawling. Neither aspect is good enough on it's own to be a compelling game. Together they makes the perfect mindless experience. Sadly you get to the end game of cult management far before the dungeon crawling and that end game has no purpose. It does not help you in the dungeon.

Ultimately I am left feeling empty and incomplete for the time I spent on this.,