Deck of Ashes - Card Based Gothic Roguelite

what's up guys gals welcome back to the nerd castle today in the world of indie games were checking out deck of Ashes a card-based roguelike which I am an absolute sucker for I just can't help myself when it comes to card based gameplay I don't know what's wrong with me every time I hear card Bay's gameplay I'm like alright let's go for it so that's exactly what we're doing here today let's go ahead and play the game we'll start a campaign and we will hopefully make it through this thing without any major problems they recent released a new character is this guy right here hey that guy right there they were gonna sly the black serpent slide her to the dark side after his innocent wife was executed and formed a gang of outcasts the curse gave him unmatched speed and reflexes now he is tormented by the voice of his slain enemies alright let's try that on out yeah we'll leave it on we'll leave it on adventure an intense experience that puts your skills to a serious test okay sounds good let's let's perform a serious test we're gonna go standard mode for right now apparently there is a draft mode though where you can pick your cards and take whatever you want in order to get through the dungeon people are monsters that a long time ago the my wife she made me forget it Kathleen always saw the best in others I started to at times she led a modest life of a village healer until one day the fat cats from the capital stopped at our village to have a bit of fun they behaved like they were in charge they were drinking and whoring around growing more violent by the moment when a village elder confronted them they tortured the old man to death's door Kathleen tended to his wounds but he died in her hands human realms law was strict and murder meant an investigation when the execution had arrived the locals were happy to testify against my wife for a coin Kathleen was to be executed I froze in place powerless as her head dropped the cold ground and I came and I started cutting throats the rich the poor they were all to blame I strung from the shadows unseen unrelenting they knew I was there yet they never saw me coming as if the shadows protected me I spared no one people are monsters I always knew I took to the path of robbery and vengeance and before long I was wanted across the human realms I formed the gang of pariahs like me the outcasts and I led them through the mud and blood of this world to freedom to vengeance to justice with meaning taken away from us driven by hate alone we found purpose and testing our limits we slain all opposing us and one day we lost our minds enough to wonder if we could conquer death long story short we released the ash curse and duped all fraternity we found though immortality but still it turned out to be the revenge the world deserved the ash curse affected everyone I'd love to say that this was all but we the outcasts paid the ultimate price as well we lost each other and everything we had under the curse the shadows consumed me granting me the power to move unseen superhuman speed and reflexes but now I can hear them those ice wave they accuse the moment they threaten they just won't shut up and Kathleen I can hear her voice too it's madness the voices drug me insane I must get rid of them the ash master a shady prophet who says he has the answers offers his help I know snake when I see one and I could see through that old Viper whatever he's up to I'll be one step ahead for now I could use this fragile alliance he's guiding me to the valley of death he wants me to kill Lanie death this already smells foul but if anyone could rid me of the voices now it'd be her I'll make the old hag squeal to get what I want and then I'll take my revenge she treats me once I'm kind of feeling the the angst the forbidden Grove will have to stop here in pitch camp like I feel like his storyline is a little edgy but at the same time like I'm kind of into it like I like playing the bad guy in video games I like it when you get to play somebody that's like not a good guy not a knight not a paladin not a robber with a heart of gold like every now and again video games let you play that guy who's only out for himself and is definitely like somewhere on the spectrum of evil I like that I prefer that the curse defiled these once sacred woods with hideous mutations there is a lurking danger behind every tree here a web or a giant rat or any other beastly abomination the ancestor is the ruler of these lands the father and the king of all beasts the curse changed him and I suspect not for the better he's picked up our scent and he won't let us pass we have but a couple of days before he tracks down our camp you must prepare to fight him all right I mean it sounds like I'm pretty good at Rogen's so maybe I'll make it happen the ruler of these lands won't let us pass and he will find us soon we must fight him there are a couple days to prepare all right search the area for supplies and recipes and put them to good use we need all the help we can possibly get all right here are some recipes to get you started talk to the blacksmith if you want to make cards out of them oh my goodness there's so many things happening so it looks like we've got snake bite over here it's a poison at the start of the characters turn poison deals one damage to them the effect lasts till the end of battle any healing effect will remove the poison okay we've got cyclone of daggers this card cannot be played draw the effect of card of this type is activated when it is drawn okay so we have snakebite decreases strike the selected opponent by two till the end of battle put to poison effects on him we've got deal for damage to each opponent every time we draw a cyclone of daggers we've got a dagger set over here when this card is played craft three fragile throw dagger cards alright yeah let's make one of those I like daggers and we can also take cards apart it looks like we can do traits and then we've also got upgrades inside of here that we can fiddle around with but we don't have any resources for it it's the merchants have anything going on how many coins do I have of 20 coins let's see here we can buy something make our deck a little bit better you know there's snakebite leg we go all in on poison builds you'll know damage and increase your speed by one until the end of the battle we also have deal 7 damage to all opponents whose speed is lower than yours deal additional 2 damage for each speed point that exceeds the opponent's speed ok like how fast are we cuz like it seems like those two synergized together [Music] yeah we've got silent onslaught three damage to two random opponents and gain stealth draw copies of this card from the battle deck to your hand we got short respite renew a random card and reduce your speed by one so the end of battle scales of avarice I'll probably just go with another snakebite that sounds good I can renew all my cards over here we can burn cards what was burning a card do does it just get it out of our deck does so I bought those too right where are they [Music] [Music] Oh their recipes gotcha okay all right increase our stats here and we can cure ailments well that's cool I kind of like the customisation all right well let's just play the game how about that so we'll leave the camp and we've got ourselves a map over here where we can move around and see if there's anything else going on there's a treasure chest over there but I need a key in order to get into it does it feel like the contrast darkens when I move the map you see that right there huh interesting we've got a battle so let's fight this let's see if we can murder a few guys it seems like our character has a proclivity for particular violence so let's give it a go so I've got level 1 rogues and a level 1 guard neither of these guys look super super healthy so it looks like we have 5 action points got shadow assistant damage taken by the player on the next played strike card is deflected back at the attacker available once per battle ok so it's like a defensive card and then it gets destroyed it looks like at the end of the battle I wanted to discover to the sake of that okay I've got knife strike it only does three damage they'll apply bleed on an opponent yeah let's do that all right and we've got four points left yeah let's do that so now I've got fragile daggers deal three damage alright I don't want to spread things around too much so like we'll send that over there and we'll just keep stabbing not a bad turn I mean we got him bled up I'm sure we're gonna take some damage here you me return three cards to the bottom of the battle deck all right what did he do oh he increased his strength that's not good I assume that's gonna be sting II what did he do applies poison and gain stealth oh no I got poison on me right now series of strikes to damages effect is activated three times okay I'll probably go with secret set again just to get some more knives there you go perfect and then we've got snake Shiv deal six damage and it's got Phoenix on it what does Phoenix do I don't know what Phoenix does I also have a healing balm so I can put regeneration on myself I'll save that for a little bit I feel like we're in okay shape right now and I'm okay with keeping my cards like we just have like a bunch of generic strikes so no biggie I should probably kill that dude in the front like I put the bleed on him and I was gonna work on this guy but I think I may have miscalculated that we've got a thrown dagger right there all right throw that out and then we've got 12 damage right there in a healing balm all right well kill this dude oh we actually created him twice all right yeah put a healing balm on yourself they said anytime I get a healing effect it'll cancel out poison doesn't look like it's working that way though the music's kind of intense right now it's got kind of like an epic feeling to it I feel like I'm in like a Zack Snyder movie or something now let's just finish him off we've got a couple more daggers we can throw out so I see no reason not to do it that guy's now officially dead we got 10 card parts ash I guess and 20 coins on this side we can craft cards or we can renew cards oh I forgot about that so you have these little rest points right here and so anytime like a card gets burned at for a combat you can use a rest card to bring it back in I think yeah or something like that and then you can also rest you can use your points to get HP back if you want to there we go sure you want to dismantle the tent you have rest points left okay well if it wants me to use my rest points let's do it let's do it where else do I want to go I can extract resources from right here what did that do that's new that wasn't here last time what is that thing goblets required for buying upgrades from the merchants Oh apparently we mined some gauntlets err we mined some goblets out of the ground okay you may find keys you may find money you may find ash that's a portal right there it's a medium battle alright let's loop back around any event I race along the hallway of an abandoned castle damn these ghosts they attacked suddenly in a horde and I've got a run there's nowhere to go I gripped the stone in my fist it's my last hope it doesn't work isn't working but I know what to do the ghosts have almost caught up to me and I can hear them wailing it's getting cold so cold just a little more and then I'll be able to teleport I just need to let them get a little bit closer the stone will absorb their energy and allow me to jump to the camp just a little more my eyes narrow two slits their distorted faces the smell of rot their venomous laughter as they savor the anticipation of my death I hold on with the last of my strength if I try to teleport too soon I'm dead I can't endure their gaze any longer there now I jump and for some reason I don't appear at the camp but I'm far from the old castle it worked the travel stone malfunction you end up somewhere else oh okay I guess extract resources what do those do herbs required for buying upgrades from the herbalist alright there's a cave over there there's a dungeon huh I bet you the portal this takes me back over there yo I was gonna say so took us a little bit closer to where I want to be but we don't really have mutated ancestry you should not have trespassed on my land I will find and crush you Oh what if I don't want to be found and crushed it was an intense exhausting battle I fall to the ground next to the slain monster it was stronger than I thought in fact I'd never encountered one like it before hopefully it isn't infectious since it gave me a deep wound I need to inspect it but I don't have the strength I'll just rest for a bit and catch my breath first I closed my eyes for a moment it is already well into the night when I wake up the first thing I see is the herbalist leaning over the wound the monster left me as a parting gift lucky I was out gathering herbs otherwise you'd have to slash monsters on one leg she says still stroking the wound I've examined addressed it shall I heal you now I should warn you it's gonna be painful I don't need healing I think I'm good to go there's an ash storm he's created anomalies drawn their power before they disappear okay hopefully I don't get teleported again I stand in the middle of an abandoned village the wind wanders through the empty houses slamming the shutters and creaking the floorboards it's now the full owner and master of this place and winter is coming then it will become fiercer and more cruel crushing through the abandoned taverns hovels and huts but begin destroying them in a fit of senseless rage it will cover whatever survives in a soft snowy blanket and then in the spring the water will finish what it has begun this was a prosperous village once I remember the satisfied and happy people who lived here and I remember how not one of them would give me lodging for the night when I needed it now I can pick any house I like and there's no one to turn me away I entered the sturdiest of them all I set myself up in the corner there's an old folio on the door nearby and I pick it up as it turns out there's very valuable knowledge hidden inside of it this abandoned village has been a far more used to me than when it was inhabited got a sprint recipe okay you found some ash that's it huh all right you should not have trespassed on my let yeah it doesn't look like he's actually coming after me though what is that right there like what is that little pit mean maybe when it gets down to there I have to fight like a prelim or something I don't know start all the battle well the last one went perfectly others piggies hello little piggy are you doing today got a knife strike I've got daggers set so expensive yeah let's go ahead and play those oh it put him in my hand nice okay never mind then maybe we'll fish out some crits I thought it was gonna put those into the deck and I was trying to front-load my deck for a little bit now hold on to what I have I don't mind I like my hand right now I'm feeling pretty confident about it we've got healing we've got like a bleed we've got another attack and we're gonna draw a couple cards at the end of this so no biggie no harm no foul a couple more damage out right there probably throw a draw blood on the rat since I'm about to finish this dude I'm gonna throw a regeneration on me and then shadow assistant I guess I think that gives us some kind of retaliation or something like I'm not exactly sure what it does but they set the next strike card that gets played on you you hit them back yeah that's exactly what it did we're got two bleeds on me now it's not good I'm all full of bleeds my boo-boos are squirt mm all right well hope for a crit no crit that's okay you still got we've still got a little bit of MP left I still don't know what Phoenix does but screw it I guess oh that means it goes back into my draw deck gotcha that's what Phoenix means so we don't actually discard it at the end of the when we use it it goes back into our hand okay well that means we'll always have something we can use here I don't know if I'm gonna have enough damage to finish this off because I'm bad at math and I didn't go to kindergarten properly they kept telling me to stay but like I was a kindergarten gangsta you know what I mean like they couldn't hold me down I can craft cards if I want to how much ash do I have left like where's my where's my ash ad I got 30 ash okay let me get 10% of my health back I'm gonna renew some cards actually I may have to fall back to the camp and renew there I'm gonna craft let's go with thee let's go with the poison build I'm gonna renew a couple of cards because why not but we'll draw something from over there I think the easiest way to get this done we got an event on a night like this even monsters prefer to crawl into their burrows and lairs to get as fast as they can away from the ash storm that descends upon the land I'm not worried about it such storms have come upon me so many times on the road that I don't even pay attention to them anymore for me an ash storm is just an opportunity to be alone with myself and maybe short my supplies with whatever isn't nailed down on the empty streets near me is an altar dedicated to some newfangled goddess it's been decked with valuables loaded down with food wine and gold people are eager to believe in every God dreamed up by a trickster in five minutes as long as it promises to save them from the curse it's understandable I take a couple of gold coins from the altar think I need them a little bit more than she does get anomalies around champions pauldron healing bandage tome of lust and ash chalice okay I mean I can get to that one right there but I don't have anything left in my deck so if I get a camp goods have been restocked all right well let's go back in here and we can renew all of our cards so I should probably do that I don't want to burn anything just yet and get it out of my deck I'm pretty happy with what I have going on they said the merchant might have upgrades for me oh yeah I could upgrade the merchant okay a smelting compound or a smiting compound sorry I'm bad at reading shrapnel compound do I have any money oh I have 83 books or recipes can I afford we got a change in priority return six cards from your hands back to the battle deck draw the equal amount of random car okay so that's a hand wipe right there those are usually pretty useful ooh I see something I like there's no mercy card right here deal 5 damage to an opponent if the opponent dies it returns to your hand that'd be really really nice for chaining opponents down at the end and killing like three in one turn maybe I don't know though maybe I should stick to maybe I should stick to poisons let's stick to poisons for now we'll do it that way so we've got rapid poison over here oh I don't have any ash left I'm Ashley's I've been using all kinds of like lotions and stuff okay so like let's leave the camp we've restored all of our cards I haven't found any keys yet I was hoping we would find some keys but it ain't happen so that's depressing I can get to this event down here if nothing crazy happens I've decided to perform the Rite will it work I doubt it but it's worth a try the Crimson moon rises above the graveyard illuminating the menacingly mute tombstones of those who were buried back when human traditions still seem to mean something the blood red light slides across unburied corpses that have been tossed into in a mobile heap by a picket fence I hold on tighter to the bag of herbs I carry an offering to my enemy death I dropped to my knees the heat begins to move do not turn around the dead stand around me do not look they extend their dark worm nod hands at me do not listen they call they render me with their howls curses and pleas to leave with them do not turn around do not look do not listen dawn finds me alone on the chorus graveyard soil and the bag is empty my offering was accepted we get one card back more for three battles oh nice well I could have gone I got that right there I'm dumb my bad I don't really want to teleport I kind of just want to fight and kill stuff oh that's a big critter right there snakebite yeah all the poison in the world and then I guess I'll make some throwing daggers we'll just like start it up with a little bit of damage right there it'll be all right I'll put a bleed on him next turn oh you put a bleed on me little bastard okay well here have a bleed then that's right you got bleeds I got bleeds we got bleeds everybody got bleeds have fun with it I would like to have I'm gonna put a yeah put the shadow assistant on me so that I can return fire if he tries to book up on me oh my poison fell off oh you healed yourself oh that's just poor form how could you I don't even know if I have enough damage in my deck to actually kill this guy I fundamentally do not know like this might have been a mistake he's taking a lot of damage from those bleeds Wow with so am I let's see ash packs train 20 renew five random cards what a strain do do I lose health I bet I lose health yeah well Healing dagger and then we'll do that and we'll finish them off next turn it'll be okay it'll be alright but apparently we do have a mechanic to get our cards back if we run out so that's nice to know as I say this is gonna all be throwing daggers I don't know if I want to do that or not I still got three cards left I don't know that's gonna be enough to kill him stop stealing my life dude not cool there you go that should be enough to kill his ass all right we'll wait this out I think we can beat him though I mean we basically depleted our entire deck so if we get into a fight after this it's gonna be a little bit rough before it gets better but for now we have been victorious this is deck of ashes I hope you guys really really enjoyed this episode my name is flat okay and get the game down below in the description it is updating right now if you're looking for something a little bit more grim dark than slay the spire but definitely kind of similar this is that sort of game if you like deck building and come up with new builds and stuff like that you'll probably enjoy yourself the only thing that I've noticed so far with this game that I'd like to see changed up is maybe the animations of the characters could be a little bit more in-depth as of right now it's like a one frame swap and then just like a little I don't know spell effect like in between you and the enemy and I'd like to see maybe a little bit more added on to the actual attacks themselves to make things feel a little bit more fluid but other than that I'm having a good time so I will see y'all later think we're stopping on in hi do and take care of buddy don't forget to leave a like on this video

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Id: _PIQ4U4cPsA

Length: 26min 46sec (1606 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 06 2019