Urban Cards
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About the Game
Urban Cards is a Cutthroat Capitalist Card Battler where cash is king and greed IS good! In this challenging roguelike deckbuilding game, your goal is to play your cards right, build your business empire and make tons of money, while keeping an eye on your debt and your opponent in check.
This is a satire themed game with 4+ factions and playstyles to choose from.
Oper: The realm of the millionaire CEO, the workaholic suit, and the dangerous smile of a lending shark. Bedazzled by generous bonuses, but be careful of its ferocious appetite for debt.
Akibara: The technology valley controlled by gamers, hackers, and neon lights. This is where bitcoin fortunes are made with other people’s data, this is where big brother comes to watch.
Gastown: The poor and forgotten inhabitants are adept at sabotaging their opponent, stealing from their business while ruling the streets. This do-or-die faction doesn’t shy away from a healthy dose of physical violence to achieve its aims.
Beach: Tourists descend like a swarm of bright pink locusts to consume the hours purchased in advance.
Features:
- Build and customize your own deck by choosing from 180+ cards
- Choose from four different factions and their unique starter decks: Oper, Akibara, Gastown, Beach
- Carefully manage the different types of cards at your disposal: Business, Workers, Henchmen, Actions, and Objects
- Accept the challenge and make your way through a procedurally generated campaign with 20+ Events and many hours of replayability
- More than dozens of different enemies stand in your way of success: from mob bosses to otaku and money lenders. Get ready to defeat the biggest crook of them all: the Government!
- Collect 30+ special items to aid you in your quest to make even more money!
- Play against other humans in 1v1!
Game Discussion
Steam User 0
A strategy roguelike with little replayability due to it being too strategically shallow. But it also has a dazzling AD, and fun enough mechanics that it can keep entertaining you until you can no longer overlook its limitations. Took me 20 hours, the rest was me trying to close up on the achievements before it stopped being fun altogether.
On the plus side, the game has a super groovy soundtrack, and a rich, lovely AD with lots of humor. From wallet-losing tourists to actual sharks wearing suits and playing the stock market, the game finds lots of light-hearted ways to explore the business world, and is worth every penny for the laughs alone.
And, while I usually couldn't care less about it, the amazing voice acting is a lot of added value. Nothing like several workaholic brokers going "sleeping is overrated!" in quick succession.
Now on the negative side, the game consists in a series of 2-player card game encounters, but the card game itself isn't very interactive, and lacks polishing. Notably, no matter how conservative players are, they'll eventually run out of cards in their hands, and the advantage you can get from vomiting your hand early on is way too easy to mitigate. Once you realize that, you'll start picking only high-impact cards and remove the cheap ones every chance you get, and as a result, deckbuilding isn't very stimulating. (If henchmen could target workers, aggro strategies would probably be a lot more relevant)
Apart from that, the game puts a lot of emphasis on the debt mechanic, which turns out to be mostly anecdotical. Winning with it is near unfeasable (resulting in certain cards feeling like they exist just to be played against you), and losing due to it is also unlikely, due to that one event that shows up every 2 or 3 matches and lets you remove a massive amount of it.
It could be an issue - and therefore add some depth to the game - if you weren't always guaranteed to have enough cash to afford it. But you do. In fact, you make so much money in this game, that you barely ever have to make a choice at all, and can usually afford to buy items you don't want just for the luxury of removing them from the pool.
Lastly, there's few different events, and they're mostly... uneventful. Fun writing, though.
All in all, the gameplay's not too bad, but lacks refinement. However, it's enough for a really fun couple dozen hours.
Steam User 0
Great game overall. But could use some tweaks.
Most of the time the AI decks are so OP. Making a shop or deck maker for each faction would be a better choice rather than making a huge deck of filler cards from one event you may get during the campaign. Other than that game is worth a buy, but don't buy it at $15 or $10, but it at like $5.