This is an awesome game that you can sink a good number of hours in to. It starts as a survival game - can you find sufficient food (because growing your own comes later), and a little minor exploration.

Later, when you're self sufficient, it's similar to an idle game - you watch numbers go up, to unlock new buildings, which if built help your numbers go up more.

I'm 15 hours in and there is still *lots* of story to uncover. Right now though I'm enjoying sitting, looking out a window, as a barren landscape becomes green, gains plants and dry areas become lakes and rivers.

This game is very much in development, but where it is currently, is really good.

A short puzzle game. Beautiful graphics. Feels like The Room's younger sibling. A lot of the puzzles are repetitive, the mechanic is obvious, it's then just time consuming to solve the puzzle.

Start to finish in 3 hours, not really rushing. It was good, with definite The Room vibes.

Awesome game, new stuff added all the time. Proper time sink.

A delightfully simple game full of choices. Learn a new thing on a different day: open up a whole new set of options. I've still not got to the end of the story.
If you need something to just pass the time, this is the perfect game.

A classic pay-to-win game obtained from the latest PC Gamer magazine.

There's no replayable solo mode, once you're through with that, you won't get any more rewards for playing the same matches. It serves as a testing ground for any new deck concepts you come up with, that's it.

The only way to progress is to battle randomly online and specifically win. Which leads to farming the lower ranks so that you can get the coins to buy a new roulette-spin to get more cards.

You can, however, pay money for rubies, which you can convert directly into these roulette spins, thus neatly skipping the arduous grinding bit of the game.

Daily challenges which also give rewards help to hide these issues, but ultimately this will sit in my 5-minute-game category.

TL;DR: An interesting game that suffers from excessive grinding - devolving to a game that takes 15 minutes at a time.

The mechanics of the game can be broken down into:
1. Win levels to gain gold
2. At the end of a level, of the 5 cards presented, you randomly get assigned 3 based on you 'picking' them after the game shuffles those cards. You get the first one for free, the others you have to pay for with the afore mentioned gold.
3. Combine cards with the same name to 'evolve' them to a higher level.
4. Goto step 1.

The problem I encountered is that, early on you need all the cards, and there's lots of interesting ones. Towards the end of the game though, you're waiting for that one very specific card to show up so you can evolve an existing card.
This leads to excessive grinding as the only other way to get cards of the higher levels is to buy them in booster packs. Booster packs cost 'stars', which are another item type that can be shown on the cards when you win a level.

Of the 4 level types that exist (Easy, Medium, Hard, Progress Story), the Hard level took about 15 minutes per playthrough. It was difficult to bring this much lower because the game limits the number of enemies on the map at any one time. You can be hammering the 'summon more enemies' button as much as you like - it's not going to make an iota of difference.

I played 83 hours in the end and the story was enjoyable enough, but most of that time was spent just waiting for the cards I wanted to show up.

Emotionally captivating, this game leads the player backwards through someones life story. The sound track and content meld together incredibly well.
The story takes about 11 hours to tell, a must-buy.