This adds a new level of strategy to combat, as switching out your character to be in the lead at specific moments can mean life or death.

Many cards, abilities, buffs, and debuffs in Roguebook are dependent on a characterвЂ™s positionвЂ“either in front or the back. Yet what makes Roguebook stand out is its focus on tag team combat. All these elements help make each run enjoyable, even if the RNG gods arenвЂ™t smiling on you. Players can also collect a number of items that can permanently impact combat and can stack effects to cards with gems found in each page. As you progress, more in-depth status effects, buffs, and debuffs are introduced, forcing players to be strategic about the cards they collect and play. Things start fairly straightforward, with each card and enemy simply dealing damage or raising defence. In Roguebook, players draft cards from Vaults of Wisdom in order to create decks of cards to defeat enemies. THE BOOK CHANGES EACH TIME YOU OPEN IT It's up to you to reveal the Roguebook's mysteries with the ingenious ink system. You will never play with the same deck twice.

BUILD YOUR DECK AS YOU PLAY Choose wisely from 200 cards, 80 relics and 30 gems that can be combined. It doesnвЂ™t innovate on past deckbuilding roguelikes, but it does enough for its combat to become a highlight for the game. Combine their strengths to defeat over 40 bosses and enemies. In the midst of battles, however, it can be easy to forgive RoguebookвЂ™s unremarkable presentation. Not every game needs to present never-before-seen concepts, but RoguebookвЂ™s lack of character and charm means that IвЂ™m simply unable to concretely remember anything about play sessions IвЂ™ve just spent a few hours in. Even the playable heroes Sorocco and Aurora fail to make much of an impression, ultimately blending into RoguebookвЂ™s familiar fantasy world. With the game touting the involvement of the creator of Magic: The Gathering, Richard Garfield, one would assume that more about the world would stand out.

Unfortunately, Roguebook feels incredibly generic, its world, light narrative and character designs seemingly recycled from the sum of its influences and peers.

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