The deckbuilding gods have unleashed good karma upon the land: Balatro solo developer LocalThunk recently praised the poker roguelike's early supporter Pengonauts for his new deckbuilder, which is already collecti🎃ng seriously positive 𓆏reviews.
"I TOLD YALL THIS GAME WOULD SLAP," Loca🧜lThunk posts alongside an image of Pengonauts' builder, , and its 100% "critics recommen☂d" rating at the time.
, "the dev for StarVaders @pengonauts.com was the 4th person to join the Balatro Discord when it had, like, 20 wishlists and has been super supportive every moment since.""Best part of gamedev is the friends you make along the way," Pengonauts agrees in h🦄is own .
Its Steam description describes StarVa🍸ders as an "endlessly rꦆeplayable roguelike" in which players use mechs against alien invaders, as one does, fine-tuning their explosive decks to blast enemies away during tactical grid-based combat.
"Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your✨ fate, and protect the future of humanity," continues the game's Steam description.
At the moment, a bit less than a week after its launc𝓀h, StarVaders sits at an impressive Very Positive Steam rating with nearly 400 reviews, "this game genuinely blows me away. I can't even say enough good things about this."
"There must be like 500+ cards," the review continues, "This game is insane⛄." And it's glittering with the LocalThunk &nd🍎ash; what more could you really ask for?
Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, an🙈d Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually wဣorking on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.
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