Awesome entry! I love card games and this has a nice twist to it! Keep up the great work!

Amazing entry! I loved the concept and the execution. The drawings are lovely, and the gameplay is fun.

The only thing that I found “weird” was that choosing a rule was hardly difficult. There was always a rule that was clearly better than the rest. One time I was shown a rule that said “Certain animals can move freely” and another one that said “All animals can move freely”, for example. But that’s just something tiny that could be balanced with more time.

The empty-slot damage mechanic is very interesting, it plays very well with having a shaman on the battlefield that I needed to protect. Very cool entry! 

Good game. I liked the mechanics with the rules. But I think you need to divide them into categories when choosing a rule: I got two rules for defeat and one for victory. These are essentially two debuffs and one buff, naturally I will choose the rule for victory, a choice without a choice. There is also one point, I think if the enemy comes out of the back row, then he should not attack right away. Because this way the enemy comes out to the shaman, and there is no way to defend himself. The atmosphere turned out cool, the music and sounds are cool. The effects when placing cards are also cool.

Big fan of Inscryption here and I loved this, I feel like you took inspiration in all the best ways while having a very unique spin on it, like how damaging empty tiles hits the closest card, forcing the player to think about positioning. The rules you attain are super cool and a great take on the limitation, and the art style for this is fantastic. Serious 10/10 on all the design, artistic and mechanic-wise.

There were a few areas that I think were bugs that left me going "Are there secret rules I don't know about?" though, which made me laugh because it would be very fitting for the limitation, but did cause some frustration. Just wanna let you know about them in case you ever plan on continuing with this project (which I think you should! It has a ton of potential in my opinion):

• The number of souls a card cost would sometimes change randomly after hovering over it
• The "keep half your souls" rule doesn't seem to fully work, or at least, I thought so until I noticed I did keep half of them and then lost a bunch (but not all) as soon as my Shaman got automatically placed down. Perhaps the Shaman has a cost associated? If so, it's not really clear to the player and it does make that rule a lot worse than it seems on paper.
• Because of the last bug I thought I was totally screwed on a run, but I actually got saved by another bug (?) lol Enemies don't seem to actually do as much damage as their card says, I got swarmed by a pack of bears but then they all only did one damage. But then later on, the same bear did 4 damage! I wasn't sure if this was a bug or if there's some secret defense stat going on, but if it is intentional a bit more clarity would be nice for players to see.

As the programmer of our submission, I mean all of those notes as constructive and areas for your programmer to take a look at if you plan on updating the game, since I know just how easy it is for bugs to slip through the cracks when there's only a week. Overall though, you guys cooked with this. Super impressive how much you put into this and how fun and smooth everything does feel considering it was all done in a week.

This game is conceptually solid. Deck-builders need a gimmick to stand out and the idea of stacking rule modifiers during gameplay is a cool one. Being able to choose them gives a lot of player choice which is fantastic, though I do worry that some of the rules are far and away great while others are clearly inferior. I don't want to nitpick this point too much though as this kind of thing can be solved with lots of playtesting on a larger project. Specifically though, it seems strange to take negative modifiers towards the shaman early on when you only have to fight them in the last battle.

I also love the aesthetics. Inscryption is a favorite of mine and there was a lot of that in here while having its own charm. The art direction of using these sort of vague spirit silhouettes of the animals is cool and I was a big fan of the sound effects for all of the animals throughout.

Another satisfying element was reading the name of each area and parsing out what you might face. I felt really smart when "foxes chasing rabbits" ended up being a couple rows of rabbits followed by a row of foxes. This is something that, once you experience it, you know for next time, but the ability to predict on the first playthrough is very satisfying.

Overall, really well-executed card battler. I can see this expanding into a feature-full game and being incredibly fun. Great submission!!

What a gem! The simplicity of the game and unique art style drew me in and I kept playing for discovering more rules. It feels very well thought out and plays smoothly. The little animations and visual effects are so well placed that they're not getting in the way but support the gameplay and atmosphere in a very subtle way. So far, among the submissions I enjoyed playing the most for sure. 

One question:  The card stack in the bottom left was moving when I hovered it, but I couldn't figure out what to do with it. Am I missing something?