I didn't think I'd enjoy the game this much. It's quite additive.

The game is not hard to learn, but it does take a lot of trial and error to master.

Penumbra for example can be seriously OP if you have right card to back it up in the initial hand. I've had the Champion eat enough with the right unit/spell cards to get over 800+ Damage at the Seraph stage.

Of course, I've also experienced some tough instances of utter failure too lol.

Here's one example:

I played the Penumbra Champion (Umbra) and my ally was the Awoken.

I entered a battle with an angel that could move freely between floors. Unfortunately, I was having a bad run of luck in acquiring good units and spells. The boss was lucky (or me unlucky lol) to have the Melee debuff ability. To make matters worse, they also had something that boosted their damage by 1 per enemy unit getting hit I think.

This meant that the boss quickly got their damage up and and the weakness debuff meant a double attack that none of my units (including the Champion) had the health to withstand. I play the game for fun, not really for the challenge, since it's kind of my warmup game before playing the longer games.

Disclaimer:
So I do have the Restart mod (part of the dev package on their site that works for the GOG version and doesn't require Steam to download) and it allowed me to restart the battle, though with the same exact initial hand. This allowed me me relax a bit and not stress out. After all, I'm playing the game to de-stress lol. Just to be clear, I many runs without any mods before using it. So a lot of failed runs early on and even later on still.

Anyway, on this battle, I died quickly and often. I restarted and tried different combos and different, but no matter what I did I kept failing cause that melee debuff killed my front line units in the same round. So after several tries, I got the idea to use the Morsels as the front line units. Not sure why I didn't think of it before.

These Morsels, as many know are incredibly weak on their own. There're meant to boost the front units after all. So now I kept popping these guys in front every chance I got. Of course, the downside was that my regular units hardly got to eat any of them, since the boss and the enemy units keep quickly killing them. The one mercy I got was that in this battle, the enemy did not have multiattack or any other crazy boost.

Well, color me surprised, it was crazy slow progress, but I actually managed to kill off the non-Champion units. There were some dicey moments when I almost didn't have enough Morsels. The final fight with the boss was pretty iffy to say the least.

But somehow I managed to defeat it, though it took a lot of the poor little guys getting sacrificed in the front to make it happen. Funny think is, I think it was one of the remaining Morsels that delivered the killing blow to the boss. Avenging his fallen comrades before they could even be eaten, poetic justice maybe? :)

So yeah, it's a fun and addictive game, but can try your patience when your luck is just really bad. I have a feeling I'll be playing this for a long time. One bad thing, I don't have the DLC yet and I missed the sale by mistake, so I will have to wait for another sale.
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FYI mod is not needed to restart battle (though I believe it makes it easier by adding a button). When you leave a game mid-battle, after resuming it will also start from beginning with exactly the same hand and deck arrangement. Worth noting that cards generating random cards (like those giving you morsels) are not pre-fixed and will give different cards on each restart.

Some may say restarting is cheating, but it's actually great way to learn a game. Some battles may become quite a head-scratchers on their own. I remember one time I restarted fight with a DLC's final boss probably 30+ times starting to think it's unwinnable, but it actually wasn't and I won. It was likely only that one exact specific sequence that allowed me to win.

I started playing with DLC only after I won Covenant 25 in a base game with all clans and most combinations, and I think it was a good call. It's a VERY different game once you enable DLC. While it gets significantly more challenging and complex, it also feels less balanced as you really need a very specific build to stand a chance against the final boss. Some champions and cards, very much viable in vanilla, got hit quite hard because of this post-DLC.

I definitely want to get the DLC, once it goes on sale again lol. I do want to experience all that.

Also, can the DLC be toggled on/off or once you install it, that's it?

Cause I do like the base game. So far played it like 30+ times lol. But I did start over a few times, so still long ways to Covenant 25. But if would be nice to have the option to go back and forth for Base/DLC.
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Yes, there is on/off toggle for DLC in the main menu. You can also always ignore the stuff that makes game harder/more complex (and is required to fight Divinity - a "true" final boss), and then it's just the same as vanilla ending on Seraph boss battle, but with a new clan and all the other added content (cards, relics, events). It's definitely worth a buy.

Thanks for the info. :)
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