Against The Moon

What first attracted me to the game was the graphics and art style and at first I was a bit confused as to how to do some of the stuff in the game as the tutorial is a bit lacking and brief. However through some trial and error I've pieced together most of what matters and have made some decent progress. There's a minimal amount of healing in the game, to increase the difficulty a bit, but you can still manage it with the right cards played, etc. I wouldn't say the game is super strategic but you do have to be careful what decisions you make.
All in all it's a great game with just the right amount of challenging and a cool concept.

This game has some fun tactical twists on your usual Card Battlers.
You got a lane system, which adds quite a bit of depth and you have to manage your resources to be successful.
The choices in events/cards/items you make along the way determine the outcome of your run significantly. One run can take up quite a bit of time. My longest one was over 2 hours. And I lost that one in the end. Fortunately you can come back to your run later, if you don't have the time to finish in one go.

Damn this is an awesome deck-building rogue-like! It's similar to Slay the Spire, but with additional strategic depth. Adding additional characters and three battlefields opens up tons of options. The game is quite difficult, but it feels fair. Looking forward to seeing updates from the roadmap

Against the Moon is a roguelike Deckbuilder and just as fun as you expect it to be. It's not one of these "Slay the Spire"-clones and that is a good thing.
There are 3 Lanes in total. On each lane you have a "hero" unit. Each lane has the possibility to put out three units. The "Heroes" add six cards each to your deck and have a special attack you can use with energy. Each turn you get one energy. When a hero dies, the damage will attack your Main character. If her HP reach zero the game is over. The Main Character also has a special ability which can be activated through energy.
Aside from energy you do have points to play cards. There are monsters and abilitys (Like 2 dmg to an enemy) to play. Sometimes you get to upgrade your cards. For each card there are 2 possible updates. You can only chose one of them.
Like in many similiar roguelike deckbuilder you can remove cards from your deck. You also can level up your hero units (each of them 3 times). Throughout the run your main character can get more HP, your starting hand grows, you can earn more energy a turn etc.
Overall there is a progression. You earn something like points each run and spend them to unlock cards and upgrades of cards. You can't upgrade existing cards if you did not unlock the upgrade.
Aside from the Roguelike mode there is a Story mode. Atm there are 2 storys whereas one is the tutorial (albeit a bit long). In these storys your heroes regenerate if they die and you also get to try the battle again, if you lose. The writing is okay. It's a bit dry in the beginning and gets better in the end (even a bit interesting). When the characters talk to each other it's always interesting. I would have liked more of that to tell the story.
The performance seems not so good. Loading screens are sometimes a bit long and when you start the game it crashes sometimes even through my pc is more than able to play this game. (Note that not everyone has that problem!)
I now played over 5 hours. I finished the story mode and have 4 heroes unlocked (there are 3 or 4 more to unlock). Also, each hero has a second form to unlock (different ability and cards). In the shop (NO Microtransactions!!), where you can spend points and unlock new cards you can see how many cards there are in total. It seems like there aren't that many right now since most of them are upgrades. I also have the feeling after 5 hours that i almost saw every card. Other games in this genre did not gave me that feeling after 5 hours. I would strongly recommend to add a lot more cards.
In total the game is pretty good. It's addictive and everything you would expect from a roguelike deckbuilder. The Devs also already postet a roadmap and promise a lot of new and free content in the next few months (2 new campaigns, new heroes, new cards and new spells). I definitely recommend it!
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I spent quite a lot of time in the game to give an objective assessment. The game is definitely not the easiest, and certainly not for everyone. If at the beginning the battles are quite simple, then in the late stage of the game you will have to think about the choice of each creature, and use the ultori skills only at the most necessary moments.

Detailed Feedback:
Against The Moon provides a good challenge in rougelike and definitely capture the rougelike in deckbuilding where the challenges provided will force players to balance their deck well and with a touch of luck as the challenges are in all sorts of different forms. The feedback is not too bad, but could be improve such as a greater contrast when effects happens to your hand as well as effects for be displayed for own minions since not everyone remembers the minions effect.
However, Against The Moon falls short on the story, where the voice acting and lack of bgm impairs player(me) getting immerse into the game which is a big turn off.. Despite a great bgm for the intro, there was not much bgm in the story campaign itself which makes the turn off even greater as the bgm covers up for the shortfall of the voice acting which lacks impact, luster and fails to grasp the emotion for the story itself, despite the story being slightly unique.
Conclusion:
Overall, Against The Moon has the flair on the rougelike where the challenges, rewards, and mapping pull its weight requiring players to really think as their Base health does not replenish other than rewards and healing, making every action counts. However, their story and voice acting needs to improve greatly.
Score:
Gameplay: 8.2/10
Music: 7.8/10
Voice: 5/10
Overall: 70 / 100, Buy it on some discount.
Hope to see improvement on the feedback and voice over.

A turn based deckbuilding game with roguelike elements. Here you are battling some underworld monsters in order to save the world. It has a grid like and lane system, where each party has a grid of 4 by 3 sized area for them to place their units for attacking and defending. It starts off simple with there being a limited amount of tools you can use, but as you progress and build your deck, there are more to it with the strategising as you try to deplete your enemy's field in order to attack their champion. It kind kind of like yugioh, like say when you clear one of the enemy's lanes and you have a unit there, then it will directly attack their champion, so it is vital to at least have something there. The gameplay with pretty nice too as there are plenty of different spells and units to use. They have certain amounts of health, attacks and abilities, for example some providing extra shielding or dealing some damage to the mirroring space on the enemy's area. Your champion also have some special features after some time on the field. I love the designs of the characters and monsters that you use and fight. On the battlefield, they are smol and cute, which is probably my favourite part of the game. Since it is a roguelike, sometimes there is the rng where the difficulty of the round can be a little high, but it is still fun. Although, even now that it is released, only the prologue and first story mission is out, with the next four coming soon. So probably best to pick it up later when more or the rest is released. But i do reckon it is worth checking it for those into deckbuiliding roguelikes.