Roguelite Fantasy Fight Performed With Poker Palms

Zoeti makes use of acquainted poker palms to fling spells and launch highly effective melee assaults, making for a card-based roguelite that’s simple to select up and perceive.

Monsters are about! They’re doing dangerous issues like leaving moist towels on the ground and coming to mattress with soiled ft! Properly, presumably they’re doing one thing extra sinister than that, and also you neat to beat them up as you cross the countryside. To do that, you could play pairs, straights, and different Poker palms you’re probably conversant in (the sport will educate you for those who’re not, although). You aren’t restricted to taking part in with only a tiny hand and getting the precise proper playing cards, although. You may hold an enormous hand of playing cards and see what you’ll be able to create out of it. This offers the sport some nice technique as you have a look at your hand to see how one can maximize what you’re holding. Typically meaning holding stuff to see what you draw subsequent, typically meaning making an enormous, damaging play in a single flip.

There are some totally different characters you’ll be able to play to get some totally different outcomes to your palms, too. Valentina is a knight that has a number of endurance whereas nonetheless having nice offense. Nicora makes use of elemental magic to mess along with your enemies, and Alves additionally screws up enemy assaults utilizing tough skills that have an effect on velocity or their likeliness to hit you. All of them have their very own card swimming pools and strikes they make use of, so you could have a few roads to sort out the sport.

Zoeti‘s Poker-based play model felt prefer it is perhaps limiting, however it’s an intuitive system constructed round a widely known card sport. It makes you’re feeling like you’ll be able to choose it up and play it shortly (even when it does have its personal complexities to be taught), making for a difficult card sport that feels welcoming on the identical time.



Zoeti is accessible now on itch.io and Steam.

Joel Couture

Joel has been overlaying indie video games for varied websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is consistently looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games will be, and seeks to delve into the artistic course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.