My second complete run! This time with a shuffle deck + shovels.

Loved it, spent two hours trying to win but never managed to get a build together enough to do so. Might try again another night. I wish the current game was a hard mode and there was an easier mode I could play to try some of the other cards. Currently it feels like only 1 or 2 strategies can actually get into the later levels so I ended up just grinding runs to try to get them to come together. Still super fun though.

Very entertaining!
Though the failed runs feel like there was no option to save it, especially if the run failed early.
The dominion style discard where one only discards the played cards at the end pose an interesting challenge and prevent one from going infinite.
I feel like you have got something rather promising here and I'm curious to see where you go!

Amazing.

what font do you use? its beautiful

Great concept, UI is snappy, visuals are crisp*... but it sorely needs a probability and balance pass, probably some deeper mechanics changes. Keeping up with the difficulty curve requires playing risky strategies -- if you have a deck that can hit the score target 90% of the time, you aren't likely to win 15 levels in a row. It's not really possible to build a consistent deck, especially on the levels with an odd number of hands.

*but could be more distinct -- when holding a lot of cards in hand, it'd be nice if it was easier to tell the low vs. high ore/scoriums apart.

Radar deck nearly perfected: grab 0 cost card draw to cycle through deck almost every round bulking and hitting the big scorium, then focusing on ore for blowing up unwanted cards. Good times. Thanks for the challenging game.

This is fun but I can't seem to figure out the strategy. I played for like an hour and couldn't win once.

Great game. Tons of fun, though in the need of some balancing. In the later levels, seems extremely difficult to pass without having bulked up using radar. At that point, tools like chisel, which can be great early on, just get in the way. Since there's not much opportunity to dynamite them (or, I'd rather dynamite small ore or scorium), seems better to just never have them in the first place. I wonder about something like saw being used to deconstruct tools, or something to help the deck evolve and shed earlier items.

I've finally managed to get a win after investing in a radar turn 1.
Fantastic game and I've been hooked for the past 2 weeks. Imo it might need some balancing overall and specifically in regards to how the cost of dynamite skyrockets, since I've been trying to go for a small deck build for a ton of runs and it's pretty difficult to set up.

I installed and ran the game on Linux usingwine and I am getting memory leak errors when I exit the game. To be exact, I am getting:

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Not sure if it's a problem on my end (could be) but posting it here just so the dev knows

Join the fruit bat cult, it's strictly better than smeltery!

Anyway, a great game with a great idea of balancing ore vs score! I especially enjoyed how it is player-centered and focuses on building a good deckbuilding rather than steering the attention to other factors. The music is  beautiful, some of the only pieces that I actually listened to instead of muting it immediately.

The only downside is that it feels like you are pretty much forced to play a lot of draw/energy action cards with some payoff, of which wrench is just too good at any point in the game (it is just too op with the only downside being that you have to get it).

It would also be really nice to add some variety like relics/card upgrades or maybe some challenges or pathing choices like in Slay the Spire. Honestly, I can see the game go in so many directions that it's hard to pick what I would like to see the most and I can see it really pop off if you release it to Steam.

Anyway, here's the run, got wrench on level 6 or so and didn't need to use it for score even once (I did end up using it for score just to speed up the process though)

there is a gltch with the cards

Excellent game

I really like the game and graphics it reminds me of dominion but kinda more fun.
I think it can blow up if you ever release it to steam! But idk if it's just me or only viable strategy is action cards with some payoff.

I would really love if there are different ways to find the game like scaling resources infinitely or similar. Mby adding artifacts or easier ways to remove cards (even if in game) or upgrading cards.

It's a great game and I'm enjoying playing it, but I feel like it has a chance to be really popular if there is more strategies to win

Loving it! Very fun and addicting

With 'Wrench' + cheap draw 2/3 cards actions + Energy cards  you can pretty much go infinite.  Got 260 ore each turn.  Fun game!

Edit: Got a even crazier run! over 14000 ore mined and found a bug: when you have over 9999 ore the numbers doesn't fit in the box

(3.01v) Very addicting game. Love the gameplay loop! I would love to see more!

Game feel is good. I like the balatro style card movement, CRT screen effect and level intro and outro. I would like more pizzazz/partical/card visual effects that tie into the mining/pixel theme if your sticking with it. The overworld is cute, but I would like some backgrounds while playing to reflect the location I'm in. I wish the location had some effect on the gameplay.

Game play wise, I wish you could have branching paths for different locations or events (I thought it was initially, based on the navigation in the overworld) but as I said in the beginning: very fun finding synergies, combos, and managing priorities. I would also like seeing more card modifications other than upgrading resources. Maybe adding equipment/events that modifies actions/tools? (Can you tell I like Slay the Spire?) But just things that would make it more fun/replayable.

Game balance wise, it feels like that the optimal strategy is the only strategy to win (ie no build variety to win the game). I was stuck on the level that required 90 scorium for a while until I realized what cards I needed to win. And that combo of cards depended on the RNG of the early shops. (The combo was early goldmine/0 cost resource generation into walkie talkie to duplicate resource cards to 7 value, into salamder, campsite, draw/energy cards, wrench) And it took a while. So, personally I want more build variety and maybe some other gameplay modes for replayability.

Overall, great game and I would love to see more. Good luck!

I found this quite fun, but very difficult. I'm feeling that I lack agency, as I know a few combination of cards that can let me win (mostly, combining the campfire and the salamander), but I don't feel that most runs have a pathway to victory - I find myself having most runs end at the stage where you need 90 score, but the two runs that won were super easy because of the available upgrades. I think it would feel better if it were a little bit less random (possibly with some additional difficulty to balance more choice).

Heyo! The new update is pretty awesome! I like the new strategies introduced, such as how cards like Gold mine encourage the usage of more resource cards, and Wrench encouraging more action cards. And while the new creature is definitely a downgrade from the original, it's new mechanics are pretty fun too, plus the original was definitely overpowered.

My only complaint would be the nerf to the Prospect card. Using it was one of the most fun parts of early game, but now it's rendered entirely useless. I'm honestly curious as to why it's price was raised, since cards like Aquifer and Corkscrew now directly outclass it, giving a +2 or a +1 to all resources for the exact same cost.

sometimes this happens and i cannot progress to the next round?
 i will follow up if i can replicate reliably

I'm really loving the update and it's an amazing game, but I want to play it more, so I'd love to see an endless mode

first time breaking the 1000 ore mined mark! this game is so fun!

with the minecarts i got to draw my whole deck every turn

I have encountered a bug that causes things to sometimes cost way more than the listed ore and leave you with negative ore.

This game is so addicting and fun!! The new card system looks absolutely amazing! My fave card is the creature <3

omg finally did it with a single big beefy scorium!

so good, awesome game : ) i love the polish on the cards, music, sfx, overall mood.

Neat thing! Beat it in two. The two separate resources make for fun multi-dimensional decisionmaking. Always fun to see what happens to the deckbuilder design space when a different mechanic becomes central - in this case, meta-scaling. 

On that front, the non-scaling payload cards (i.e. axolotl, map, mole) feel like a trap to me. Maybe they help you out at the start, but they only bog you down near the end of the game. May some sort of action-card-specific synergies are in order? "The next action card you play is played twice"? "Action cards are free this turn"? 

More broadly, I think the game could use some more diversity of viable strategies. Right now I suspect all winning decks are roughly the same-- one or two big, pumped-up scoriums that you try to play as often as possible. There's decent flexibility even within that, but it'd be nice to have some other win conditions. Something with action cards? Lots of smaller scoriums?

Anywho, fun game! Looking forward to see where you go with it!

Lot's of fun :)

Super Fun!

Nah I'd win

Congrats, such an awesome game! Got to the end with a very thin deck and big multiplying score and ore-ium! Great work!

What a fantastic little game, had me hooked nearly the whole morning trying to figure out how to beat it. Super cool :)

Almost bizarrely delightful and extremely satisfying. Well done!

Awe, I wanted to continue playing with my broken deck