These characters will impact the kinds of cards you are able to find throughout the game world, which offers a number of “draft spaces” the player can access through clever play.

Roguebook first tasks the player with creating a team of two unique characters to tackle three chapters in the cursed book of the title’s name.

If a slower-paced affair with more transparent options and freedom seems up your alley, then Roguebook might be the game for you. In a similar vein, we’ve seen how the roguelike formula can be applied, so repurposing that in a manner that fits Faeria’s preestablished lore and art should be a cinch.īelieve it or not, Roguebook is just about as successful a product as its esteemed pedigree might imply, but it’s not the be-all and end-all experience one might be looking for from a deck-building roguelike/lite, though that might depend entirely upon how familiar you are with other games of this style. What could possibly go wrong? Well, with a title that literally features the word “rogue,” one might expect a certain style of gameplay and progression to be on display. Roguebook is the brainchild of Richard Garfield, who some might know as the guy who made that sort of popular card game Magic: The Gathering, and Abrakam, the developers of the already successful Faeria (also on the Switch). Resident roguelike/deck-building expert Evan here, ready to report my findings on the latest addition to the Switch library.

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