Just stopping by again this DD to say your game is STILL sick. The new HUD indicators that show where things get thrown and how much hp things deal are massive as far as QoL is concerned and I really like that you can start with different elements now. I made a video but it was over an hour because of how long I was playing so I deleted it. 

Only bug I found was that I died to the robot boss but somehow the game didn't end. I just restarted and it allowed me to restart the fight. Was kinda like cheating. 

Don't spend too much more time. Hit early access soon you're right there. You could go into EA right now and I don't think people would mind at all. Just don't overprice the game!! PLEASE so many devs have been doing that lately OK you got this GL!!! 

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2767018337

Actually amazing. I'm not a big fan of card games, but you had me absolutely hooked.

Reached the boss on my first run, and got absolutely wrecked on the second run.

I'm not a big fan of some voice lines, but that's probably a minor nitpick.

Reminded me of Washack - a very old game.

Good stuff, card art and the shader on the cards is peak sovl. Please keep it up!

Overall thoughts

I like a lot of this. Ambience/vibe is great. I dint encounter any bug, beside a problem in the catacombs that imo you can easely fix with a zoomout function.

I like the style with a few exceptions:

 - skl dosent seem to be cohesive enough stylewise with the rest of your art

 - also acolyte with robber mask and boots, and baseball bat

 -  also a suiper clean lamplight

 - also big trashbags like we are in a city for some reason

Imo the potential is there, if you can setup the mystery of this setting well enough you could get a lot of ppl speculating about your lore. 

Random notes

for first encounter i got very unlucky and got a mud spawner as an enemy, and only after e while i "got" that that was a spawner, and i was a noob. For actual feedback, maybe the first encounter of a run should be really piss easy to get things going faster and get some upgrades

on map screen there should be a note with what icons means, or at least let me hover with mouse even when i can't click it (it's more a tutorial thing)

it's very fun to use force push multiple enemies, break barrels and give status effects, etc

imo the overall combat is good, but everything is spongy. 6 dmg for force push, but every enemy has 30 hp. i'm of the philosopy for a slim and fast paced combat, doubly so when you are just starting and u could turn a player away.

in short, i can't accept to feel "boredom" after only three fights, because those encounters can last a lot (for a noob, this could be a very bad thing). I can totally agree on the "why" your basic atks are not super powerful: about strategic positioning, using spells to take multiple targets at once, and using barrels for extra dmg etc. But imo at least in the first 30min pacing is super important, noobs get bored very fast. I would suggest you to make the first few encounters with enemies at half life, and test to a new player too see how it feels.

in catacombs i have problems to "get downstairs" because cards are on the way of the node selection; same thing for attacking 

Very interesting game, haven't played much like it before. The art style is very nice, love the look of the stages and characters. Lighting and sound design gives it a very grungy atmosphere. The main character just having the yellow mask is simple but surprisingly works very well giving it a pretty iconic look.  Combat was nice and taking out the enemies felt satisfying. It got pretty hard later on and wasn't sure how to get by no matter what different combos I tried. It would be nice to get some flashier cards sooner in progression. 

The UI of the menu I think the glow hover effect needs to be better, around the entire words instead of just in the center background. The 'inearth' logo needs a thicker black border I think. The traversal I have to admit was disappointing. I wish you stayed on the actual stage and could explore around instead of going into this skill tree like map to go around stage to stage. I would much have preferred different doors at the end of the level where you can choose where to go and maybe even be surprised at what the path is instead of knowing it's combat next and such. 

Overall it's really good so far, and looking forward to what is added next!

It is nice when a demo has some sort of vibe going on, and isn't just functional. I like the vibe of this roguelike, as we are some sort of experiment trying to delve deeper underground. It's cool to be able to clock on people and listen to what they say.

UI is functional, but needs bigger fonts, or options to get bigger fonts. The pop-up messages are too fast, and the tooltips are to tiny to be comfortable.

Fights often seem simply unwinnable. It might be just the roguelike aspect but so far out of 6 fights that weren't the starter fight, I've lost 4. Your starter deck is really bad, even if we get a card by selecting one of the three options in the beginnig, and easily win the first fight. Like coming across some robot and a nerd that constantly heal each other, and I cannot damage them enough.

Levels often seem too big compared to the moves you can make, and the character and monsters are a little too tiny as a result.

Maybe some quick buttons would be nice to select cards fast. Like press 4 if I want to use the fourth.

Came across nothing that looks like a bug.