[Originally posted January 11, 2024]
“A Roguelike Deck-Building Game with a twist on P&E economy. Become a landlord and develop your land to amass wealth in City of Greed”
TLDR:
5 reel slots
Choose your symbols
Simple, clean aesthetic with a splattering of lore
Surprisingly strategic
How to play
Playable in browser
Free-to-play training mode
Land NFT required for play to earn mode
Game Loop
Your first choice is to play free-to-play or play-to-earn - however, this doesn’t affect the game loop
Next, you pick which level to play - this changes the goals and your start slightly, but again the game loop stays pretty constant
Starting you are faced with a 5 reel, 4 symbol slot
Initially, it has only a few symbols on it
Your goal is to reach the “tax” in a set number of turns, eg. level one is 10 coins in 5 rolls.
Each roll costs 1 coin
After rolling you are rewarded with various amounts of coins depending on which symbols are on the screen
Once these are added up, you get a choice of 3 items to add to your deck
Most are symbols but there are also some modifiers
These new symbols are added to the reels for your next turn
The symbols and modifiers all have a “coin return amount” and a modification.
You need to strategically build your deck to make the most of these synergies
The pool of options you get is random each time, make every play through different
The game continues until you can’t pay the tax or past level 12 when the coins become your profit
If you fail to meet the tax you have to start fresh from round 1
Game feel
It is a pretty simplistic loop, but I was sweating near the high levels whilst running out of rolls to meet the tax
The cheeky chat giving you the tasks at each level was entertaining
I found it easy to pick up the different synergies, whilst I only scratched the surface due to the depth of options
Very easy to play casually
You get 20 energy per day, and I’m not sure if I’d have the patience enough to play all 20 a day, maybe a quick roll would help?
I think it would lend itself better to mobile because of its casual nature.
Rating
Given that it is a slot, I was extremely surprised at how much strategy went into the game
The modifiers are relatively well explained and easy to pick up
Having the options be random gives good replayability and prevents you from relying on a single strategy
The graphics, lore, and music are engaging.
I would recommend it to the right audience.
Web3 integration
To access the play to earn version you need a Land NFT which is on eth
The game’s coin ASG is also on the chain
For more information follow their Twitter to keep up to date.
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