Roguebook’s hook it that you’ll use cards to oversee a pair of adventurers, with the character in front doomed to receive the bulk of damage. Roguebook’s exploration complements combat quite nicely and paving a pathway to an exposed outpost can feel rewarding.Ĭolor-coded icons show the general level of adversity that you’ll face before venturing into battle. Beyond navigable tiles, you’ll uncover structures that lets you select from one of three cards, gold, and if you’re lucky, the sporadic health potion. Some tools uncover a single hex, others a lane, while a pot of paint exposes a whole section of the parchment. But more likely you’ll lay down paint to reveal swaths of the landscape. Sure, you can head right for the boss if you’re feeling courageous. Initially, a starting area and a path to the boss is visible, but you’ll use recovered ink to render the rest of the environment. When you’re not battling, a team of two protagonists progressively restore a procedurally-generated, hex-based landscape. Deposited in a well, magic has turned the relic sentient, and the old book has trapped adventurers on its incomplete pages. Here’s why:Īs an off-shoot of Faeria: Chronicles of Gagana, the game’s moniker refers to an ancient tome.
But as a collaboration between Faeria developers Abrakam Entertainment and Richard Garfield, the designer of Magic: The Gathering, the Switch release of Roguebook diverges from convention.
From Slay the Spire, Monster Train, Griftlands, to Inscryption card battlers that incorporate deck management qualities are plentiful, and intermittently, a bit derivative. Much like the genre’s disbursement of new cards, new deck building games seem to arrive on a regular basis. Price: $24.99 via digital download, $31.49 Deluxe Edition
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