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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 25.2 hrs on record (1.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: 24 Feb, 2022 @ 9:49pm

This is a pretty fun game, though the concept might not be clear right away. It is a deckbuilder, though keep in mind it is more in the style of drafting games. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic setting where the government is raising a girl for some special task. They set up basically a fake city where everything is made to educate the girl without her noticing they are manipulating her from behind the scenes.

As you go along you recruit people to play the roles of different people in the city and those are the cards in the game(there are also one off items and stuff too). When you get the new recruit it is played to one of five areas and remains in play for the rest of the game, adding it's stats to that location and making the location more powerful. Of course cards have special abilities and what not that can interact with other cards and stuff. So you are drafting cards for the different areas to maximize the power of each area. In essence the girl visits these areas and meets the colorful cast of characters you hired and learns from them.

There are several wrinkles to your plan however. The first is that each area has random chance of activating or not activating. It is all or nothing, either you get the bonuses from that area or you get nothing. You can spend points each turn to increase the chances of the area activating, though the more you do so the more upset the people there become(from being overworked) and the more the girl becomes suspicious you are manipulating her. So it becomes a balancing act, how how hard you want to push her and how you want to spread the cards out. You can go for a massive stack in one area that when it activates gives a ton of points, or you can spread things out to assure she gets some points no matter what each turn.
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