It all makes Roguebook a "novel" adventure at first, but one likely to collect dust on the shelf soon after. And while the game has an absolutely gorgeous and colorful look, the story's confusing at best and paper thin at worst. The board game and roguelike portions cancel each other out, encouraging players to explore every nook and cranny of each chapter on the one hand, but resetting all of that with a completely different procedurally generated board every time the player restarts.
The downside of this is that deck quickly become unwieldy, forcing players to rely more on the luck of the draw as opposed to any actual strategy. The larger a player's deck, the more abilities their characters can use. You will also buy Embellishments to customise your experience. As you play, you will access additional powerful cards, Treasures, and Gems. You are supposed to fail, and fail often, as you develop strategies and learn the game. The deckbuilding aspect encourages players to collect and use as many cards as possible. Roguebook, as the name implies, is a roguelike game. It's one part card game, one part board game, one part roguelike role-playing, and the rest just filled in with whatever it can. The problem with Roguebook is that it doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. But it just can't seem to rise beyond a level of monotony and mediocrity. That's not to say the game is terrible or that it doesn't have its high points. Unfortunately, while it might have all the pieces in place to be amazing, it never quite lives up to that potential. Add to that the folks behind the Faeria virtual board game, and on paper, Roguebook looks like it has the pedigree to be a breakout hit in the deckbuilding game genre. If you're designing a deckbuilding video game, you get help from Richard Garfield, creator of one of the legendary collectible card games of all time, Magic: The Gathering.
Thanks to a procedurally generated world with a near infinite well of opportunities, each attempt only adds to your saga. These reveal an area around your character. You always start with a set of brushes at the very beginning of the game. You're presented with an overview of the map which your two characters can move around on freely as long as you reveal a path with inks and brushes. While defeat always looms over the horizon, it's never the end. Roguebook is, in some ways, an open-world deck builder. As players progress and explore the realm within the Book of Lore, they will add new cards to their arsenals, discover relics with powerful magic effects, and unlock new abilities to help keep their stories going. Players must focus on teamwork and strategy, tapping into their party members' unique decks of cards and special skills, finding their synergy to take out hordes of increasingly difficult foes. Working with other lost adventurers, you must write your own story, chapter by chapter, to escape back to your world. You soon discover that there's more this than mere myth and fairy tale as you find yourself a prisoner of the Book of Lore. Though lost to history, there are still tales of souls stumbling across the relic and vanishing, trapped forever within its pages. In the world of Faeria, there exists a legend of an ancient tome which became corrupted by its powerful magic, eventually gaining a dark will of its very own.
It overlays the sounds of acoustic instruments, such as the cello, cor anglais and Native American flute, with an electronic layer, creating a stark and magical result.Īll music was composed, orchestrated and produced by Chance Thomas.Explore the pages of ROGUEBOOK, the fantasy deckbuilding adventure developed in partnership with Magic: The Gathering creator, Richard Garfield.
The original soundtrack, remastered in a 14-track album, was recorded live then remixed. Composed by Chance Thomas, the multi-award-winning artist who previously worked on Faeria, the Roguebook original soundtrack is a musical journey through a mischievous and magical world.Īdapting the innocence of Faeria's musical theme to the mischievous atmosphere of Roguebook, Chance Thomas plays with dissonance and insinuation in the next evolution of his music.
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