Cardwheel

I like the design, and the UI is nice. If you pay for no ads it’s good. There are a couple frustrations though. Re-rolls in the shop change some of the offered cards, but not the card on the lower left (which is a permanent upgrade for the current one). You’re forced to buy that card, it won’t re-roll. What that means is that you will lose. Why? Because if you can’t pull the card that allows for boss re-rolls, you’re gonna lose, because you’ll get a boss that’s opposite of your build with no way around it because you can’t re-roll. I deleted the game because of this (even though in a lot of ways I liked the game). It’s just too limited, which becomes frustrating. If these issues were addressed I’d try it again though. I recommend this with these caveats. And ads are too many, know that going in you’ll need to buy the ad-free purchase or you’ll be watching more ads than playing. The ad frequency is another huge issue. Way too many.

the fewer colors you have in the wheel the more your chances of beating a level rely on luck. the single color wheels are near impossible unless you happen to draw perfect pulls every time. the number of times i’ve had to restart after the first wheel because nothing available in the shop allows me to beat the second wheel. fix this and it’s a 5. at the least make the single color wheels the final wheels to beat. right now i can’t imagine having to not only beat one single color wheel but four of them in order to get to the remaining wheels.

I’ve had a lot of fun with this game, and I think it has a ton of potential should one major issue be addressed; that being the fact that the different rounds which consist of different combos of colors (i.e. green, red, orange but no blue; orange and blue but no green or red, etc.) work exactly the same mechanically, and ultimately just feel like repeating the same task multiple times. There are two ways that come to mind to fix this: 1. Remove all the different combos and just have one for each number of colors in the wheel, which would decrease the amount of content but would make the existing content less repetitive; Or what I’d consider the better and more interesting option, 2. Add unique joker cards that synergize with different colors. At the moment, all jokers that synergize with a particular color have variations that synergize with every color in the game, which means that every color is mechanically indistinguishable. An example of what I mean would be the four uncommon Suit jokers in Balatro, (one gives +7 mult for each club scored, one gives +50 chips for every spade scored, one gives $1 for every diamond scored, and one gives a 1 in 2 chance for x1.5 mult for every heart scored). This could obviously be expanded significantly given that this game has less options for hand types, meaning that colors could be made even more mechanically complex than suits are in Balatro. Still, despite this issue, the game is a ton of fun; I just think that it could be so much better if colors were diversified!