Anode Heart: Layer Null

Gameplay that feels like early hearthstone and early yugioh had a baby, and an art style that looks like the digimon world DS games. This game feels like it was made for me.

i uninstalled it twice before the third time the rules of the game clicked with me. then it sneakily ate a lot of my time. a lot of it was attempting to bruteforce one battle or another with a bad deck and seeing odds, adjusting a few cards at a time. fun to field test decks. some parts of the game walled me pretty hard. there's a few qol things that could be improved in terms of sorting and searching in deckbuilding, but for the most part it's up top for clarity. and the entire game can be played with a mouse, huge plus for casual. obviously lots of build options given the nature of this type of game. fit what i was looking for as a closed-set tcg game. definitely worth it if you like card games and collection. not yet finished with all the content yet but just hitting the endgame it's been a good ride.

Bought this game in a bundle with their other game, Anode hearts and I liked this spin off game way more, personally. This game is really fun, there are some builds that are better than others for sure but if you like deckbuilding you know the goal isn't always to make the most overpowered deck. I had a lot of fun dealing with the bosses, the AI does play a little bad sometimes but the 'cheats' the boss fights use make these fight a unique challenge. You can brute force your way through them they aren't impossible but I found it more fun to try and build a deck to take advantage of their cheats too. I think the game could use some QOL adjustments, and the static screen questline doesn't end up going anywhere and that was a little disappointing but I haven't played a deck builder that got me this hooked in a while. Highly recommend if you're a fan of card games or deckbuilding.