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Cards of the Dead - Prologue

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41%Game Brain Score
gameplay
monetization, graphics
64% User Score Based on 14 reviews

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Cards of the Dead - Prologue is a single player tactical role playing game with a post-apocalyptic theme. It was developed by Boomfire Games and was released on October 14, 2021. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Cards of the Dead - Prologue is a free standalone version of the game 'Cards of the Dead'. This is beginning of a story where you start on the outskirts of town.History The infection is advancing by the minute and getting the vaccine is humanity's only hope. Do everything in your power to fight off the hordes of zombies piling up in the streets to make your way to the biological complex and retri…

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64%
Audience ScoreBased on 14 reviews
gameplay1 positive mentions
monetization7 negative mentions

  • Easy to understand gameplay with a fun and unique card-based mechanic.
  • Clean, retro pixel art style with a cool zombie theme and number-based scoring.
  • Enjoyable as a short, casual roguelike game with quick pick-up-and-play sessions.
  • Lacks important features such as resolution/windowed mode options and save functionality.
  • Gameplay can feel frustrating due to high randomness, low health, and no upgrades or skill trees.
  • Text often runs off the screen, and restarting after death requires quitting the game manually.
  • monetization
    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The monetization approach is criticized for misleadingly presenting a demo or advertisement as a full game, which takes up valuable marketing space and undermines fair competition. This practice is seen as harmful both to developers who follow proper guidelines and to gamers, making it difficult to recommend.

    • “Publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful.”
    • “This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game.”
    • “Often developers choose to incorrectly publish demos/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behavior and it's not good for gamers.”
  • graphics
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's graphics intentionally use outdated retro pixel art, lacking modern visual quality. Additionally, it offers no options to adjust resolution or customize graphics settings, limiting players' ability to enhance the visual experience.

    • “There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings.”
    • “There's no way for gamers to try to improve the low quality graphics.”
    • “A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel art as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics.”
    • “There's no option to change the resolution for the game or customize the graphics settings.”
    • “There's no way for gamers to improve the low quality graphics.”
  • gameplay
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is straightforward and easy to grasp, featuring clean and well-designed sprites that enhance the overall experience.

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Cards of the Dead - Prologue is a tactical role playing game with post-apocalyptic theme.

Cards of the Dead - Prologue is available on PC and Windows.

Cards of the Dead - Prologue was released on October 14, 2021.

Cards of the Dead - Prologue was developed by Boomfire Games.

Cards of the Dead - Prologue has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its gameplay but disliked it for its monetization.

Cards of the Dead - Prologue is a single player game.

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