A challenging rogue-like deck building game about a legendary adventure in the Realm of Divinity. Lead your team, build your unique deck, gather powerful relics and consumables to confront legendary creatures and eventually discover the truth behind the omen of darkness.
Players can choose from five distinct legendary heroes, each with their own unique abilities and playstyles. For example, Wukong can shapeshift to learn skills from any NPC, manipulate fire to inflict the burning status, and deftly dodge incoming attacks. The Holy Monk has the power to apply "good" or "evil" status on enemies, allowing him to either convert foes to his side or unleash powerful attacks. The Swine King can consume consumables to obtain hunger points and boost basic status, use transmutation to learn powers from enemies, and transform into a monster when completing his eight principles. These diverse hero mechanics encourage experimentation and replayability.
The game's party-based combat system allows players to recruit up to 5 team members from a pool of over 20 permanent companion characters and temporary summoned NPCs. Companions have unique talents and card sets that remain with the team across multiple battles, while NPCs can be converted, captured or summoned in various ways. Carefully managing this party composition is crucial to success, as players must synergize their teammates' abilities to handle each encounter.
With an extensive collection of over 500 cards, 300 relics and consumables, and 120 unique NPCs, the game offers deep customization and progression systems. Players can build their deck around powerful combos, gather game-changing relics, and make strategic decisions about which NPCs to recruit and retain. The multiple chapters and 60 different endings further enhance replayability as players uncover new storylines and challenges.
Reviews consistently praise the game's innovative and unique mechanics that set it apart from other deck-building roguelikes. Players highlight the enjoyment of experimenting with the diverse hero abilities and team compositions, as well as the strategic depth offered by the extensive progression and customization systems. The strong thematic integration with the classic "Journey to the West" story is also widely appreciated.