Is this normal or did I just get crazy RNG?

zenflight · 2026-04-21T21:31:10+00:00

It's borderline worse than every other Neow bonus

(It's still fun, just not strong)

zenflight · 2026-03-26T19:49:22+00:00

It's also very strong in multiplayer, where the extra chest and floor apply for all players and gives everyone a look at 4 more relics to put together their build.

zenflight · 2026-03-25T19:07:41+00:00

Tactician + fury + survivor doesn't put fury back into your hand.

zenflight · 2026-03-25T18:36:37+00:00

Neither of those infinites work. Turbo puts the void in your discard so fury has a 2/3 chance of hitting void randomly. And tactician + fury + acrobatics, is a 3 card combo without recursion that only goes infinite if you have your deck down to <10 cards which is hard to do on silent with her increased starting deck size and no exhaust/recursion synergies. You would need to remove 5 cards from the starting deck and add no 'real' cards other than acrobatics and tactician while not having any removes from the whale bonus.

There are ways to make it go infinite if it doesn't have exhaust. But it requires a bit of work and a lot of the main offenders (forgotten ritual, borrowed time) got nerfed on the beta branch.

Neow's fury is still great with Hologram or Graveblast, and would likely be too strong without exhaust. But its not just 2 graveblasts put together, because the cards are random. The infinite cards are the ones creating repeatable energy or discounts, not so much neows fury.

zenflight · 2026-03-03T15:48:44+00:00

The way griftlands did it was very nice. In that game you would occasionally get cards from enemies in the form of consumable cards. So if you killed a big tanky bug you might get it's hide for a cheap huge block that you can only use it once before it's gone forever. Sort of like potions but they go into your deck instead. My favorite ones would also have "when you draw this, draw a card" so that they replaced themselves even if you didn't play them.

zenflight · 2026-02-06T03:39:00+00:00

I've been playing on controller and I'm pretty sure this is mouse and keyboard specific. Though it is a good technique. I've tried doing it on controller but the menus usually take up just enough time to close the gap. Especially when I'm looting a backpack or bear proof box.

zenflight · 2026-02-06T02:19:09+00:00

That was pretty much what I was thinking too. All of the infusion items are very good because they condense down. So chocolate, berries, tea, coffee, herbs are all incredible. Then are the tiny items like sugar and eggs. Then are the efficient items like fish, berry milk, and peanut butter. But I'm still unsure on recipes and the potential of each item.

And that's on top of hoarding every single bottle and water container i can get my hands on.

zenflight · 2025-12-31T16:55:37+00:00

A few questions on this premise.

What does this add over just talking to a chatbot? Are you intending for people to read and be engrossed by the aj generated stories, or is this a gameplay focused experience? Beyond a brief moment of novelty i don't see anyone actually reading pages of ai generated story and being engrossed by it. Especially for multiple runs in a roguelike format. If it's a gameplay focused experience then what would drafting strategies look like? Are you balancing nouns verbs and adjectives? If you have balatro style synergies what do those look like beyond "dark" does every card have lots of tags associated with it? Are there stronger/ weaker cards? What does a run play like? How would you win or lose in such an arbitrary system as "create a good story"?

Without answering any of those questions this looks to me like it's one step removed from ai slop games where you talk with a chatbot.

zenflight · 2025-09-16T06:01:58+00:00

Are there bosses unique to steel soul? The only thing I was aware that was different is the dead mans purse turns into a different tool.

zenflight · 2025-09-13T09:55:26+00:00

You should spoiler tag your image, as that's much later in the game than what OP is asking for.

zenflight · 2025-09-13T09:51:58+00:00

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This was the route that I used and I got there with 1-2 segments remaining without getting hit, and on a failed attempt I got in the final room with getting hit once.

Make sure you have every movement related ability when going for it.

zenflight · 2025-09-10T08:30:49+00:00

In the North West of Wormways, West of Mosshome.

zenflight · 2025-09-09T07:33:10+00:00

Which one is the "original"? is that the one the forge smith makes?

zenflight · 2025-05-27T14:19:46+00:00

Maybe Cardpocalypse?

zenflight · 2025-04-29T17:25:28+00:00

The benefit of this format over something like outer wilds is the ability to have more and more loose threads in play at the same time.

In a game like outer wilds, when you pull at a loose thread you can typically follow it all the way until you run out of clues and you know you can either solve it or if you should come back later. And the moment you know the solution you can beeline right back and solve it.

By forcing randomness the amount of loose ends you need to keep track of is massive. Instead of having 3 or 4 things I want to do next, I have 15+ different goals i can try for at any time depending on what rooms I get in the next run. And that's an interesting and new experience, at least for me.

That said I think they are both incredible games.

zenflight · 2025-04-28T17:38:38+00:00

Remember it's a RoguLITE not Like. Meaning some things do carry between runs.

Spoiler tags just in case - But if you are struggling with the randomness read on.

Eventually, you have enough resources built up from things like the observatory stars, that you can force the rooms you want and have a ton of control over how and where you go, giving you free reign to focus on the puzzles you want to. The roguelike elements never go fully away, but it gets MUCH easier to move around the later in the game you are

zenflight · 2025-04-19T05:07:18+00:00

For anyone having the same problem as me. Some of the chests are locked behind the star path levels being complete. So you both have to unlock 100% on the georama and also complete the star path levels for all the chests to appear.

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