Roguelite Fantasy Combat Played With Poker Hands

Zoeti makes use of acquainted poker palms to fling spells and launch highly effective melee assaults, making for a card-based roguelite that’s simple to choose up and perceive.

Monsters are about! They’re doing dangerous issues like leaving moist towels on the ground and coming to mattress with soiled ft! Effectively, presumably they’re doing one thing extra sinister than that, and also you neat to beat them up as you cross the countryside. To do that, you must play pairs, straights, and different Poker palms you’re probably aware of (the sport will train you should you’re not, although). You aren’t restricted to taking part in with only a tiny hand and getting the precise proper playing cards, although. You possibly can hold an enormous hand of playing cards and see what you possibly can create out of it. This provides the sport some nice technique as you take a look at your hand to see how one can maximize what you’re holding. Typically which means holding stuff to see what you draw subsequent, generally which means making an enormous, damaging play in a single flip.

There are some completely different characters you possibly can play to get some completely different outcomes to your palms, too. Valentina is a knight that has loads of endurance whereas nonetheless having nice offense. Nicora makes use of elemental magic to mess along with your enemies, and Alves additionally screws up enemy assaults utilizing tough talents that have an effect on velocity or their likeliness to hit you. All of them have their very own card swimming pools and strikes they make use of, so you will have a few roads to deal with the sport.

Zoeti‘s Poker-based play fashion felt prefer it may be limiting, nevertheless it’s an intuitive system constructed round a well known card recreation. It makes you’re feeling like you possibly can decide it up and play it shortly (even when it does have its personal complexities to study), making for a difficult card recreation that feels welcoming on the identical time.



Zoeti is on the market now on itch.io and Steam.

Joel Couture

Joel has been protecting indie video games for varied websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is continually looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games may be, and seeks to delve into the inventive course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.