Drop Duchy

[McMitch]

Drop Duchy sells itself as a combination Tetris-Deckbuilder-Roguelite wherein you place pieces to gather resources and build a militia. Weirdly, I think it has all the issues I find in deckbuilder and roguelite games. Deckbuilders near-universally require luck to pull the right synergistic cards, and roguelites require you to have already unlocked everything in order to have a chance at winning. Despite all this, it has eaten days unlike any game I've played in a long time.

Per the Woke Games thread, regarding whether it contains "Woke" elements, there are None. Everything is an abstraction or number, and the developer is still on twitter (and mostly just talks about the game or ones like it).

 

[W'rkncacnter]

I was strongly considering buying this game, you've convinced me to actually buy it.

 

[satorrotas]

It's pretty fun, but sometimes the unlock criteria translating to "get absolutely perfect RNG" is obnoxious

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

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