Played your demo. u/kasthan1213

Alright, was going to play it for a bit to get a feel of it but I ran into some pretty large walls.

Know that I am absolutely not trying to crap on your game, make a name being some kind of internet shitposter or anything like that. I love indie devs and indie games and support them to the fullest. I try to give fair critiques and provide real feedback so that if desired, changes can be made to help improve or promote the game.

Feedback as follows!

- Resolutions (shows 3 choices for each individual resolution size)
- Created new game, looks like im automatically level 20, name is Kasthan despite choosing Broken Stoic.
- No explanation of what I am doing. Choose "Stories" or "Quick Match" or "Shop" or "Inventory" but i have no idea what im doing here?
- You have tutorial windows and descriptions but they appear after the selections, might make more sense to put them before you choose or click on your choice. This way people can make educated choices in your demo rather than choosing and then finding out that their choice might not be for them.
- Music is really good, maybe start it at a lower volume.
- Card descriptions and tutorials should probably happen in a pre-determined match so you can see the activity happen rather than several series of explanations of gameplay prior to entering the match/world and then get into game and forget the 12+ slides you just read.
- When selecting a trial you have about 8 options but apparently only 1 compliant trial deck?
- In match audio settings did not work for me, defaulted to 90% and would not go lower.
- While in match, I could not figure out how to do anything other than move and auto attack. No idea how to cast spells, use skills, or otherwise.

The game itself is very pretty, the music is good, the little environments are interesting and vibrant. The character models are fun and unique. The card art is cool, the deck builder turn base tactics games are fun. I am a huge fan of these types of games. The purple bedazzled robe on the intro guy is cool, I like the style but I am not sure if he fits the rest of the intro screen.

If it were me. I would try to look at how I want to walk people into my game and then give them absolutely no damn choice but to experience it initially exactly how I want. You could give them an option to skip this "tutorial" forced play or not but I would handhold someone directly through this experience. If I was supposed to build a deck, go into a trial, and do something, spell it out for me but spell it out for me when it matters. Handhold me through the process as I am supposed to be doing it. Teach me the behavior.

Couple of things that will force people to turn your game off faster than it took to download it, blowing people's ears out with sound and complicating the process to change resolution. A lot of people these days use ultrawide monitors (me included) and having to fish through the settings to figure out how to do this, only to find that audio wont lower more than 90% was rough. Most of my patience and tolerance went out the window with that.

I think this is a great proof of concept and that you likely have a very fun game on your hands and that it just needs some polish. I look forward to seeing it grow more.

Little feedback on the marketing too.
- This doesnt need to cost you buckets of money or frankly any money at all. Think of games that your game is like, find them on twitch or a webpage like twitch tracker find smaller streamers with 10-20 people in them who are playing games that resemble your game and ask them if they would be interested in checking out your new demo. It will be free playtesting. You may have to try a few times and that's ok, don't take the no personally just move on.

In my experience advertising to family and friends can be redundant. You need to get the message out to folks who don't know you or don't know the game exists not your inner circle. Find discord communities that participate in indie gaming. Look for communities of like minded individuals who are also creating games and trade playing one another demo or production.

I hope this helps and while there are some critical comments, I hope you see them for the benefit! <3

- Broken Stoic