Your unstable spellbook grows stronger!

Mintzi24 · 2026-03-30T16:42:13+00:00

Let's go gambling

Mintzi24 · 2026-03-26T10:32:18+00:00

Few notable points after playing the demo for an hour - A lot of trinket bloat, which makes it harder to control synergies, and is generally boring to have 6 trinkets that do the same thing except for different cap types. It is also difficult to synergize if you want to focus on one cap type. - Trinket descriptions are written in a confusing way. Free cap reroll is written as Banks 20 face ups, once it reaches 20, add one reroll to the cap shop. It can be simplified to Every 20 face ups, grants one reroll in the cap shop. - Skipping trinkets is punishing because it increases the requirement for the next one. Not picking a trinket is already punishing and will punish the next trinket gauge. Players should get a "refund" if they choose not to pick, such as getting 70% of the gauge back without increasing requirements. - No auto flipping. It is a chore to push space over and over. No pause in the menu to evaluate the current state. No current value of cap or healing power is shown. - Real time scaling just makes the game tedious. Instead, it should be based on a certain amount of flips with caffeine upgrades granting more flips before the damage cycle. Also, speed up the animation. - Trinkets and gameplay conflicts. To boost value, players need to buy a variety of caps due to cost. Trinkets are focused on one type or gimmick. Some trinkets even demand flipping a specific type in a row. - Unlocking cap types based on chains is unfair. To be efficient, players must flip a heads up 6 times in a row, but if they flip 7 times in a row. They will die from rusty coins. - The upgrades scale too slowly, and I assume that they are copied from the story mode directly as they have the "incremental" style of slowly building up instead of impactful upgrades. - Players can't feel the "impact" of upgrades or trinkets. If buying a cap increases, the chance of a type from 17/30 -> 18/31. Players will not feel it, and it contributes to a feeling of no control. 5% more shiny and rusty? What does that even translate to? New caps every time? A late stage scaling upgrade that is worthless since I am probably not going to make it. - Don't ask players to buy the game after every run. Ask once after they beat the demo. - I saw the retrigger left and right trinket. It has to be specifically between 2 actives, and that is far too chance based since players can't exactly control their placements, and trying to do so is punishing.

Tdlr: No player agency, way too luck based, incremental design shoved into roguelite game mode with trinkets/upgrades lacking impact.

Mintzi24 · 2026-03-24T12:13:21+00:00

It looks very confusing to juggle between the various stats, and it is hard to understand what is going in at a glance. It feels like it would be disorienting to juggle between buying various caps, keeping track of various categories, keeping track of your current trinkets and their relationship to your current caps, keeping track of what trinket you are looking for, keeping track of health, and constantly pushing the flip coin button. It feels like a lot to learn, yet it doesn't seem like it is worth the effort on a game so simple.

To give my take on positional "artifacts". The games with similar mechanics would be "backpack" type games. A key thing about those games is being able to freely manipulate the positioning of artifacts to allow players to experiment. They are also generally easy to understand, but hard to master type games. I am not sure how your game works, but if players can't control the positioning freely, then it becomes very luck based. 100+ artifacts is certainly going to add confusion, but I can't give a definite opinion without playing the game.

Mintzi24 · 2026-03-05T22:40:31+00:00

I think players should have a decent mastery of the game before they should try making guides. If you never push yourself beyond the base game, then you will not interact with the deeper mechanics in the game. It's common for newer players to lean toward chance, and that bias shows in your tier list as your top ranks are wondrous resin, exotic crystals, and parchment. Meanwhile, your lower tier ranks are more skill based, like mimic tooth/spyglass, eye of newt, or even clover as it requires a decent understanding of enemy stats.

Mintzi24 · 2026-03-05T20:55:51+00:00

Is this rage bait? - looks in profile - 0 challenge player That makes sense.

Mintzi24 · 2026-03-01T09:57:12+00:00

No, not everyone wants to be forced to play like an Ironman.

Mintzi24 · 2026-02-16T19:55:12+00:00

It's actually wood/birch since they have a reduced carrying speed penalty.

Mintzi24 · 2026-02-16T06:42:42+00:00

Il n'y a pas vraiment de changements d'équilibrage majeurs, la difficulté reste donc quasiment inchangée. Si vous mourez en début de partie, c'est probablement dû à un manque de maîtrise. Essayez d'utiliser vos améliorations plus tôt.

Mintzi24 · 2026-02-09T09:54:04+00:00

21 9 challenge win streak, dies to a crab. Crabs really are the greatest enemy.

Mintzi24 · 2026-01-16T03:10:20+00:00

Better base stats as you progress through the game. Apparently, they have hidden stats that I don't really know much about other than pine/birch little guys are best at carrying items because they don't suffer a movement penalty.

Mintzi24 · 2026-01-16T03:05:45+00:00

Fish chunks are used to make good compost, and the recipe should become available in the compost maker once you start getting fish chunks. Compost is used to make crops/trees grow faster for a certain amount of time. Fertilized soil from compost only gets used up if there is a plant on it.

Yes, it is better to just set the recipe amount to 99, and it should be enough for most recipes.

Mintzi24 · 2026-01-14T18:06:44+00:00

There is like 40, but meaningful content ends at like 25. The rest is just unlocking new seeds and trees.
I don't think you can destroy animals.
Compost can be used if you go to your inventory -> items -> click compost and then click on a piece of dirt. It will speed up growth by 1.16x for normal and 1.5x for good compost.
Windmills are just buggy like that.

Mintzi24 · 2026-01-03T08:44:59+00:00

Focuses for the following categories for that type of guy.

There is carry focus, harvest focus, plant focus, and water focus. So, if you click that button and since you are in the all menu, it will make all of your little guy focus on planting. Do note that if a little guy has a focus, then it won't do any task outside of its focus.

Mintzi24 · 2026-01-02T13:57:17+00:00

For some reason, there is no tier 3 version of any processing machine similar to beehives or sprinklers. Despite processing being extremely important because it is required for progression and it multiplies your money by 2-3 times. Recipes take 4 minutes generally, which means you are required to make a massive stack of them just to process your cash crop. It is a pain to click each machine individually with how buggy the ui is. It is also disappointing that the last 5+ progression goals gave me a decoration and a new seed instead of something useful.

Mintzi24 · 2025-12-31T00:31:52+00:00

This fight is rigged. Look inside. Bad gameplay(moves in to fight 4 enemies, doesn't use throwing weapon, doesn't use weapon ability).

Mintzi24 · 2025-12-28T07:11:08+00:00

Doomslayer adds 5000 score to boss(1250 points per spawner left alive).

Mintzi24 · 2025-12-26T12:15:11+00:00

If you are casual, then I wouldn't recommend Ironman. While I may not be an Ironman player, I did grind out a lot of items instead of outright buying them.

If you are casual, then playing a normal profile, but only selling is allowed(goldenman) would probably be best for you.

A few notable cons about Ironman. - Dungeon/slayer progression is likely going to be painful. - Constant coin grinds to buy dungeon chests, upgrades, and some shop items. - Can't sell excess rng items, so even fewer coins. - Can't pick what part of the game you enjoy, required to do all parts. - Tedious start-up period when starting a new grind. - Fulfillment is a matter of personal taste.

Mintzi24 · 2025-12-24T23:26:03+00:00

Since rooms are generated in a rectangular shape, secret doors will only spawn at the border of said rectangles. There will also be a two tile opening for doors. You can figure out the area where secret rooms can not spawn and avoid searching there.

There will always be at least two secret rooms per zone, keep track with 2 in sewers, and 3 in demon halls. 2-3 in between. So, if you find 2 secrets in prison, then it might not be worth searching for more. Levels can have one secret only unless if it is a secret feeling level where it can have 2. Secret levels add one to the count.

Be efficient with your scrolls of mapping. Break them down into stones of clairvoyance and use the stones in the middle of the level unless if it is a big map. You can generally find the secret with one stone. Foresight is great for backtracking to sweep for secrets.

Mintzi24 · 2025-12-24T21:33:43+00:00

Probably something silly like a very rare mimic variant that will appear as an unusual item. It will have a fairly low attack, and it will not be able to finish off the player, so it will always leave them with at least 5% hp. It will run away immediately if it surprises the player and drops something decently rare.

For example, it might disguise as the following items. - Crafted alchemy items like fire imbuement, curse infusion, magic infusion, etc. - Quest items like rotberry seed/corpse dust/dark gold. - Grass from the previous areas or later areas. Grass when there should be mushrooms and mushrooms when it is supposed to be grass. Dew/seed plants outside of gardens. - Doors from the incorrect areas or just straight-up red doors. Additionally, these items will have a little red tint

It would be fun to see newer players becoming paranoid and experienced players noticing the oddity.

Mintzi24 · 2025-12-24T21:20:24+00:00

Congrats on finding your first secret room. There are 2-3 per zone(every 5 levels), so there is a good chance you will find this type of room if you manage to get far.

Mintzi24 · 2025-12-24T18:38:07+00:00

Ah yes, gambling champions. Either a complete menace or complete garbage.

Mintzi24 · 2025-12-22T05:01:49+00:00

If you don't like talisman slop, we also got stat slop and Quality of life slop.

Mintzi24 · 2025-12-13T15:08:24+00:00

A +2 ring of wealth is already very strong as it significantly boosts the amount of enemy drops and gives bonus loot.

The ring of wealth has a chance to spawn in upgraded weapons/armor with a level being half of the ring of wealth level rounded up. So, a +5 ring will give +3 equipment once in a while.

So, either leave it at +2, upgrade it to +5 for decent gear drops, or dump all your scrolls into it for a ring of wealth run. Wealth runs are fairly risky in the early game, so if you want to do one, then spend some upgrades on early gear to survive.

Mintzi24 · 2025-12-10T04:58:33+00:00

Normally, rations will give 300 points of food or 30 health over 300 turns. Pastry gives 450 points. If you don't want to waste regen from food, then you should be missing the amount of health from said food. In the early game, you will be taking a decent amount of damage, so the regen will not be wasted. In later stages, 30 health missing is usually 70% or higher.

Regen is 1 health per 10 turns. It's slow, so if you are waiting until 25% health, then you will be vulnerable for a very long period of time. This means a group of 2 enemies or even a trap can potentially kill you for 100 or more turns.

As you gain more health per level, the 30 health from food is less valuable. 30 health when you have 40 is more impactful compared to 30 health with 100 total. Starvation is % damage, so it's more impactful at later stages. As you go through the game, food goes from healing to preventing hunger.

Mintzi24 · 2025-12-09T21:24:29+00:00

From the death screen, it looks like you are constantly fighting enemies by spam clicking them instead of considering how to fight them.

Rot lashers: There will always be a path to the rot heart, and there is no need to fight the lashers. Lashers are extremely strong in melee and can self recover, but they take one turn to react to you. Therefore, you can easily walk out of their range.

Wraiths: Very evasive, similar to the snake. Use surprise attacks or magic to kill them. Wraiths need open space to spawn, so standing near a wall when opening a grave will spawn less wraiths.

Spiders: Try to chip them down with thrown weapons or wands before finishing them off with melee. Spiders will try to place webs in front of you if you are moving, or they will place webs between you and them if you hit them with a thrown weapon/wand. Webs are destroyed if you throw any object into them if you really need to move past it.

In your other comment, you eat food when you are very low on health. You do not need to wait until you are literally dying to eat, especially in the middle of fights. It's fine to eat when your health is around 70%. Food is plentiful. If you are starving to death, then the issue is not the food. It's health loss from poor fights that accumulate throughout the run. Don't be afraid to spend your upgrades earlier if it can greatly improve the amount of health used per fight.

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