Mahokenshi
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About the Game
Wielding both blade and magic, it is your duty to protect the floating Celestial Islands from powerful opponents who seek to corrupt them. Challenge your fate and build your card deck to defeat foes and complete missions. Evolve your character with every playthrough, and become the Mahokenshi the world needs.
Where will you start your journey? Will you hail from the sturdy House of Sapphire? The cunning House of Topaz? The fierce House of Ruby? Or the secretive House of Jade? Each house draws its strength from a different elemental spirit and allows you to create different playstyles.
There are more than 200 lovingly illustrated cards to discover. Begin with a basic set of cards and choose how to build your deck as you defeat formidable foes, uncover treasures, and find remote locations. Be careful, as each terrain offers different advantages, so plan your actions with the surroundings in mind. Evolve your playstyle and strategy in every mission and leverage the strengths of your samurai house to create powerful combos.
Travel a vast array of vibrant and beautifully designed 3D maps. Meet the different people of the Celestial Islands, save villages, discover shrines and defeat deadly demons. See your battles brought to life with fully animated characters. Perform magical maneuvers, fiery attacks, strong defensive moves, and swift counterattacks on your way to restoring peace to the world.
Game Discussion
Steam User 10
There is good reason to argue for either rating, but I'm coming down positive because despite the multiple frustrating, experience-ruining, time-wasting bugs that prevent quest completions from triggering after load, I still want to keep playing the game. A worse game gets put away after 1 strike. Still should be fixed, but the core loop is a very satisfying deckbuilding snowball.
Steam User 9
Reading the rest of the reviews I was a bit hesitant to play this game which has been in my library for years. For me, the game has been running perfectly, no crashing, no bugs, no issues whatsoever. If you like Slay the Spire, you should love Mahokenshi! Very similar play pattern, build paths, classes, but each mission has a different goal rather than just "kill boss." I'm a big fan of how the movement system works, and the different terrain benefits, it's very rewarding to learn all the different mechanics.
Steam User 3
Mahokenshi is a creative board game-like deck builder wherein you split your cards and energy between movement and attacking. Upgrades and unlocks between missions are solid. Note that many missions and bonuses are tied to performing tasks within a set amount of time.
Steam User 3
Really fun game but the difficulty goes up really quickly. This happens because of the randomness of cards you get in game, sometimes you just can't get the right cards to beat a challenge. Wish there was a way to buy cards between tries to help fill your deck so you can redo your deck as needed per challenge. Still recommend it, it is fun and if you get the right cards you can do really well.
Steam User 4
Pretty fun variation on the roguelike deckbuilder genre. The voice acting with it's fake Japanese accent was off-putting, and I encountered a couple of glitches that forced me to restart the level. But overall it was rewarding, balanced and challenging.
Steam User 2
Fairly simply card game, with some challenges and minor progression/upgrade system. Story is so so. Visually decent. Lacks a selectable difficulty setting, so may be too easy for anyone other than a very causal player. Some missions/quest objectives can be easily "cheesed!" (i.e. stacking poison on the enemy like crazy and run away, letting the posion kill them). Highly recommened if on sale.
Steam User 2
Engaging tactical deckbuilder. Game may feel repetitive if you've 'solved' the best strat on any given samurai but there are enough challenges/variation that I enjoyed it.