This is a very simple build right now, but it's so good that I want to shout about it. Near Mint is a roguelike deck-building game where you advance through a tower by fighting slightly stronger iterations of the same skeleton. Okay, so far nothing too interesting. The interesting part comes from the cards themselves: Someone left them in an Oodie pouch, poured barbecue sauce on them, then washed them before removing the deck. Now, all the cards are divided into three parts. You set your own price here at Itch, and it'll only take a few minutes to get acquainted, but I'll explain the gist below. Gist is a good word. It's satisfying to say. Gist.
“Oh my God!” was my first reaction when I played this. “This looks nice, but these fights are so long that my bones instantly turn to the aroma of noodles, thus completing the circle of life.” That's when I realized I was being a thoughtless gumshoe for neglecting to account for the action economy. I also assumed that shields stacked when in fact they disappeared at the end of each turn. You have three actions each turn, and you combine three card pieces to create a whole card. You can spend multiple actions on a single card for effect multipliers, and cards let you attack, defend, or draw more cards. The third piece of each card is a number that you pair with actions—usually one or two. Once I started saving these for good combinations, everything fell into place.
The game page says:
Make your way through a mysterious dungeon while building a deck of cards that appear to have been forgotten in the dryer…
Your deck is just a bunch of rotting cards split into three parts. No problem! Recombine them however you want to create powerful synergies… or really bad ones.
Each battle will reward you with a new card to add to your deck, but your enemies will also grow stronger each time. How far will you go?
Just a thought: How do you peel banana skin, how do you peel rabbit skin, how do you peel egg shells but not close the detergent lid, huh? Please, don't answer that. Click on some cards instead.