The core gameplay of this balatro/StS inspired game is really enjoyable. It has satisfying interactions, interesting design, and a good soundtrack.

The thing lacking about this game is "build variety". It's basically always correct every game to make all your dice face the same value, stalling to play more hands (scaling harder), and to just buy things that scale the permanent bonuses in your slots even more. Now doing this is very fun don't get me wrong, but there's a reason I'm writing this review and putting the game down for now at 11 hours and not 100 hours, it doesn't offer enough difference between runs.

Between that and super swingy boss rounds on higher difficulty, this game can feel like it wasn't quite ready for release yet.

But I don't want to undersell it's potential, all of this can be adjusted in updates and I think this could be one of the greats with a little polish. Hoping to come back and update this to a 5 stars one day but for now:

3 / 5 Stars