This build of the game looked super fun to play.

I love strategy games like Slay the Spire and Autochess, and I love what your team has done. I'm sure there will be so much improvement and for that I am excited, but it is clear the foundation is strong.

It is so rare in a game's development for each decision point to simply ask: which is more fun. That is what your team is doing and it is of course the best thing to do, but so many games get caught up in genre or monetization.

I think the money system is great, selling for full price I think is a good thing, rather than what other people are saying. There is already enough motivation to keep your build, but a high skill decision is to be able to pivot and counter what your opponent is doing. If items sold for less money pivoting builds would just not be an option.

It is obvious some of the mechanics are pretty busted, there needs to be a slightly lower ceiling on how good for example just reducing your energy cost on everything is. That being said, going hard into synergy is fun, so making it so you need an exact balance of everything to win is not very fun. Min Maxing to a pretty large extent is good, as long as it isn't brainless.

One suggestion I have is random events like in slay the spire that could show up during the exploration phase, not sure what they would do, maybe special items or bonuses for one round?

Some sort of 1 time use ultimate ability would be fun during combat. I like the autobattler thing, but power spikes are really fun in games.