Fhtagn Simulator
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About the GameOnce again, you hear whispers in your dreams. The slimy voice, like that of an inorganic substance, chants a long series of obscure syllables. The darkness creeps, and there is a sight cast from the deepest depths. It was the most powerful and unnameable presence. The initial fear that was enough to tear your nerves apart has turned into a sweet serenity, and you understand your mission at this moment. Offer tribute to that great being and wish him to break free from his prison and let chaos come again!
Fhtagn Simulator is a Roguelike card game inspired by deck-building games such as Luck be a Landlord, Slay the Spire, and Monster Train. If you don’t collect enough spirit within the time limit, you will face punishment from the ancient gods resulting in game failure.
The world of Cthulhu is chaotic and disorderly, so cards always enter the roulette in a chaotic order, and each round may produce a different result. Except praying, there is one way to fight against Chaos, and that is to manage the card slots on the roulette. With a little change, you can maximize value of your cards.
During the course of the game you will experience various events, as well as obtain various cards, powerful mythical monsters, humble human sacrifices, evil spells and so on. In addition to this, relics rewarded by the evil gods have the ability to change the game. Use them well to get more spirit!
Gameplay Features:
- Mythical Creatures: Numerous Cthulhu monsters and ancient gods form different genres.
- Roulette:Cards enter the wheel in a chaotic order, and you can set the card slots on the wheel to guide the desired outcome.
- Sacrifice: Offer tributes to break the seal, the mission is to summon evil gods.
- Events: Choose among the events in Cthulhu style.
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Game Discussion
Steam User 2
Solid, bite-sized luck be a landlord-like game, with a very interesting card pool mechanic (you get to fix some positions of cards, you can expand your board by drawing, investigators enter your deck and interfere at higher difficulties). I have played MANY roguelikes, and this one has enough interesting flavor to be worth checking out!
Pros: Great flavor/lore
High build variety, most synergies have multiple options (particularly the ones that sacrifice humans and also benefit a specific subtype), mechanics interplay interestingly (fire destroys, freeze stacks well with high spirit), or you can just stack synergy cards
Most translation errors mentioned in other reviews have been fixed!
Cards explore the "Ring of Pain" style wheel format in lots of interesting ways
The game lets you shape your build by picking or banning "card packs"
There is a lot of choice due to the slot locking mechanic, most other games in this genre don't give you agency over the board like this game does
Neutral:
The playthroughs are quite short, almost coffee break if you play on high speed
Cons:
I think the monochromatic color palette makes it a little hard to track at high speeds.
Most strategies have two "payoff" cards, often a location and an elder god. If you invest in a strategy and don't see it, you WILL lose, which sometimes makes the game feel fairly RNG.
Pivoting builds when you find a powerful card is often impossible, because eliminating cards from your deck costs increasing amounts of spirit.
Endless is fairly boring, there aren't any degenerate "big numbers" strategies as there are few true multipliers, and mechanics like "might" and "multiple" reset every round
Steam User 1
The card descriptions could have been done better to make learning easier. Then you just ✝✝✝profit ✝✝✝
Steam User 0
Like all deck builder slots games, you really have to play it a lot before you can learn enough about the cards and mechanics to really get into it, but once you do, there are some pretty cool builds to make. Although some just suck and aren't worth even trying, like freezing.
If you like these kinds of games and this theme speaks to you, then you'll probably get at least a few hours out of this. If you're not that into Lovecraft though, there are much better slots-esque games to try.
Steam User 0
A fun rougelike deckbuilder with some great thematic ties to the lovecraft mythos. 10-15 hours of gameplay, after finishing all the achievements and playing all the deck archetypes, theres not a lot else to do. Minor text and graphical errors but nothing major. A good time.
Steam User 0
Fun, some interesting game mechanics. I wish it went a bit deeper/more complex but enjoyable. It seems like the story should go somewhere but it doesn't sadly.
Steam User 0
Amazing complexity, loads of possibilities and many strategies while keeping simple rules. Would definitely recommend it if you like to control chaos and devise robust strategies against different obstacles.
Steam User 0
I cleared difficulty 10 and my dumb ass still cant get the silver key and the gods return endings. Send help.