Along the way, you’ll collect gold that will allow you to buy powerful cards and items, and encounter narrative events that can help shape your strategy for a given run.Ĭombat in Roguebook looks similar to Slay the Spire on the surface, but the gameplay benefits greatly from the dual hero system, which emphasizes the importance of positioning and combo-play. The rest of the map’s terrain and various items are hidden, and need to be uncovered by the player. When you enter a chapter in the “Roguebook,” there’s a portal on the far side of the screen that takes you to a boss battle, and a few revealed items or fight locations scattered across the map. In Roguebook, you take control of a team of two heroes, and can mix and match your lineup from a total of four recruitable heroes, each of which has different stats, abilities, and unique cards. This adds a new level of strategy to combat, as switching out your character to be in the lead at specific moments can mean life or death.From developer Abrakam, the studio behind Faeria, and co-designer Richard Garfield, the card gaming legend and creator of Magic: The Gathering, comes Roguebook – a challenging roguelike deckbuilding game that combines an evolution of Slay the Spire-style turn-based card combat with interesting map exploration mechanics. Many cards, abilities, buffs, and debuffs in Roguebook are dependent on a character’s position–either in front or the back. Yet what makes Roguebook stand out is its focus on tag team combat. All these elements help make each run enjoyable, even if the RNG gods aren’t smiling on you. Players can also collect a number of items that can permanently impact combat and can stack effects to cards with gems found in each page. As you progress, more in-depth status effects, buffs, and debuffs are introduced, forcing players to be strategic about the cards they collect and play. Things start fairly straightforward, with each card and enemy simply dealing damage or raising defence.
It doesn’t innovate on past deckbuilding roguelikes, but it does enough for its combat to become a highlight for the game. In the midst of battles, however, it can be easy to forgive Roguebook’s unremarkable presentation. Not every game needs to present never-before-seen concepts, but Roguebook’s lack of character and charm means that I’m simply unable to concretely remember anything about play sessions I’ve just spent a few hours in. Even the playable heroes Sorocco and Aurora fail to make much of an impression, ultimately blending into Roguebook’s familiar fantasy world. With the game touting the involvement of the creator of Magic: The Gathering, Richard Garfield, one would assume that more about the world would stand out.
Unfortunately, Roguebook feels incredibly generic, its world, light narrative and character designs seemingly recycled from the sum of its influences and peers.
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