In Roguebook, players are trapped in the book of lore of Faeria and use each run to get as far out of the book’s pages as possible. Developer: Nacon and Abrakam Entertainment.While many of the qualities that made it a solid game when it originally released on Steam in 2021 are there, it feels like an inferior version of the game. One of those games was Roguebook, which is now releasing on Nintendo Switch. Released back in 2019, a handful of deck builders have since joined the game, inspired by the successful mix of heroic card battles and roguelike elements. Slay The Spire was so popular and genre-defining that it unleashed a wave of roguelike deckbuilders in its wake. While card combat offers repeatable fun, the Switch may not be the best home for the deck builder. Click here to learn more about our Review Policy.Roguebook is a roguelike deck building game that brings stunning graphics and fun hex-based exploration to Nintendo Switch. Muddled sound, blurry graphics, stuttering animation, illegible text, no accessibility options and an overly boring story makes this a game I’d probably just avoid completely.Ī copy of this game was provided to App Trigger for the purpose of this review. Roguebok is a card-based roguelike that takes many elements from successful games like it but fails in its execution with them.
Seriously, if you want a game like Slay the Spire, just play Slay the Spire again cause this is an absolute bust. The only real innovative thing here is the book aspect where you use ink to find your way across the map but even that part is so exceptionally boring that it maybe earns it a single point for the idea of it itself. Take a look at this screen.Īll in all, Roguebook tries to do everything that makes a fun card game but it falls apart like a deck of cards the second you start playing.
Speaking of accessibility, I hope you have vision like Deathstroke because I played this game on a 45″ TV and me and the wife both had to get up and go next to the screen to try to read what the cards do. And Closed Captioning is not an option in this game which is startling for a game in 2022. Your character is one of the most boring protagonists I’ve ever encountered and I couldn’t tell you their story because the intro had no closed captions so…someone like me with hearing problems just gave it a shrug. Rougebook takes a lot of elements from successful games but not the things that make them fun. A real disappointment considering Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: The Gathering worked on this.īut here’s the thing. The art style is very similar and the abilities are the same. The battles are card-based fights almost 100% taken from Slay the Spire. Your character finds themselves in a book where they have to use ink to reveal their way and along the way they get into battles. The primary difference is the “roguebook” mentioned in the title. (Okay, THAT was my last one) If you’re a fan of card-based rouge-likes you’ve absolutely played Roguebook. Now, I’m not trying to be a mean here, but let’s actually look at the game and call a spade a spade. Unfortunately, Roguebook is a bad hand almost all the way through. But learning which games to hold and which to fold on is a great way to get a great game in your hand. Because of this a lot of good games get lost in the shuffle and are easily discarded. Card-based rougelikes are remarkably easy to make and so it’s a tempting realm to get into.
The pandemic basically created the perfect storm to get people looking for a way to enjoy card games when they have no one to play with.īecause of this, there are a lot of copycats out there.
There’s no denying the fact that card-based rougelike video games are a huge trend over the last two years.
Platforms: Nintendo Switch (reviewed on), PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X By Eric Halliday 2 months ago Follow Tweet