Unity - Completed - Dead-End City Blues OD Edition [v1.2.0] [AleCubicSoft]

i think 3.5 star would be a fair rating for this game. being a unity game, the scenes are indeed animated with jiggle physics. so the production value is clearly higher than RPGM games. the game play is reasonable for the card-battle genre.

the down side is this game is quite short. i beat it in 30 minutes. and it does get a little repetitive.

as for the pregnancy mechanic, if you get pregnant, its game over.

Drawings, animation and porn are stellar.

Actual gameplay is... well the card system is nice, but the difficulty is through the roof. You need a perfect deck to have a shot at winning, and with no possibility to grind money + random cards + can only remove 1 you have no margin for mistakes.

Since you can escape fights to retry them, you might get away with the right RNG (if your deck is solid enough). But other times you virtually cannot defeat an ennemy with the cards you've been dealt. Expect several game over before you manage to beat the game.

Anyways, 2* because story is uninteresting, gameplay is not my thing but at least the porn is good. And bonus * for gallery unlock so 3* total, ain't that bad.

Don’t get tricked by the nice art. This is an exceptionally mediocre Slay the Spire-like and the scenes are uninspired to put it mildly. Overall, it is very soulless, I’d even go so far as to call it shovelware despite the art.

5/5
Loved it.
Amazing FMC design, with amazing VA.
Gameplay is super fun. Can be tough at times though.
Art is of super high quality with animations.
Fetishes are diverse.
Biggest critique is that the game is way too short.

One star because art and animations are good.

Game play balance is disgustingly bad against the player. Its a restart battle simulator. Can't remove cards from your deck so your stuck with filler that can be detrimental.

Out standing game play, the deck building aspect is very fun. While it lacks the ability to cut cards from the deck you can build a number of different decks that can turn the flow of combat on its head. Each enemy has a unique gimmick to make each one a fresh experience.

Story is almost entirely arbitrary, a new drug hits the streets, the main character recognises the drug and decides to hunt down the source and exterminate them. There is some side story but it has no bearing on the situation.

Sexual content is a very well done artistically but the dialouge is poor. They might be better in a future translation if we get one but that is not likely. additionally it has the same problem many unity games with diolouge during sex do. If feels way more clunky than a Renpy scene, which is most likely just a quirk of Unity games. Most enemy has a defeat scene with text that changes based on how many times you have lost total. Mostly ignore the words and enjoy the animated loops and get out

TDLR: An incredibly fun game with good NSFW art but poor story and a limited number of scenes.

Definitely enjoyed actually playing the game. Not grindy, not long either. Not convoluted.

Not crazy amount of scenes but enough. Been too tryhardy to lose on purpose but there are defet scenes for main story battles and there are scenes that you can unlock on the sidelines while playing so you can get artifacts, cards, money and such.

Quite good cardgame to kill 2-3 hours, definitely worth it.

Its really good.

I don't know if its because card battler games are not popular for some reason, or because of the "fail upwards" quirk of the game, but seeing this game at less then 4 stars makes me sad. It has nice animated scenes, the gameplay is fun and complex enough to be interesting but simple in its rules, like most good games, and its very forgiving if you play it long term.

Personally I also like the girl's body type, somewhat short with pale skin and medium size breasts are great.

Quite literally the only thing I can complain about is not having enough. It doesn't last long enough. I want more cards, more enemies, more scenes (sideways view doggy please), more store items, more difficulty and play modes. If there was a game that needed a big DLC, this one is it.

I don't know what else to say, please play it.

It's a good game. Gameplay is classic slay the spire card battler, not much to say. The scenes are good, the animation and art quality are both high, nicely voiced too. Nothing to complain about. If gameplay is not your thing you could always cheat engine to win fight and just enjoy the scene. 5/5

It's a Good Small game, a one with a decent concept
4/5 for me as I had fun but also had my struggles.
Thinking is required for this game if you want to Beat it.
If you want to Avoid Sex/Rape, it is a "possible" thing to do however it's not Easy at all
You got to pick your cards carefully if you want to Beat Stage 03 as the game really did not think you would go and beat the Stage 03 up.
This is how I beat it after multiple retries
(Starting card "The Zone", follow by "Duck", "Boxing slip" and "Liver blow")

After beating Stage03, you have access to S1, you can use Pick Pocket & intentionally losing to it to farm tiny amount of Money repeatedly, just remember NOT to kill the S1 target and to use Auto-clicker, Shop also refresh every time you fight S1 and lose, getting items and cards as much as you want to GRIND For it. (this took me like eh...2 hours to grind every items just by repeating the pickpocketing part)

Would I recommend buy it? perhaps but not at Full price sadly, too little "content" to offer to justified the purchase, buy it on Sale.

Its like a live 2d last evil, albeit very short comparatively.The mc is pretty well done and its cards and "treasures" are interesting. Just extremely limited in the amount of content. If you enjoy the combat here i highly reccomend playing the last evil. Its on f95. Personally i prefer the 3d of that over live 2d and it has some character customization. No pregnancy content though (but there is inflation).

very short. not much depth. each scene is very monotonic. one single motion repeat back and forth but at least there is some variation in speed. And the worst part, human scene only. You can keep losing to non-humans to grind money. It's stupid. Overall, average game but not that good.

Gameplay Time: 2-3 hours

A short but competent deck building game with lots of scenes for the runtime. Doesn't do anything groundbreaking, but executes on everything well and has no filler. So long as you don't hate deck builders, this is worth your time.

The combat is pretty good for a card battler, though like all card battler it's pretty damn rng specially given you don't really have the ability to discard cards, though there is one available from one of the scenes.

You get cards, you can also buy/procure items that'll give random passives via the shop or scenes. Gameplay is pretty simple, you have health(perm) and block(temp which ties into agility) which act as your hp, and strength will boost your attacks. You have a chance to play all cards from your deck so keeping your cards down to certain cards is pretty key.

That said, the game is really really short. There's one map, with pretty much 1.5 bosses (the main one and the zombie) and 5 enemies. There's also 3 sex scene branches that ends in game overs. That's pretty much the entire game.

Properly fleshed out with multiple levels, items and cards it'd be fun, though as is you can beat and see everything in like 30 minutes.

So 2 parts, the card gameplay and the scenes.

1. The gameplay isnt that bad. The main enemies marked with numerals. Enemies have more hp than you and its difficult early on but not impossibly so. If you get a game over, you start over but keep your bonuses which make the game infinetly easier. My advice here is get beligerent card and focus on getting the passive buffs from the shop (the 3 items near the top not the cards) If you like these rogue type card games give it a shot. ive played way harder rogue card games than this.

2. The scenes are pretty good? 7/10. not a lot of it though but i played for like an hour at a chill pace and unlocked everything. Subsequent defeats dont really change the scene except for the text. Side story event do offer different scenes the further you go down those routes.

Well, in the end it was better than I thought it would be. Completed what feels like half of the game atm.

The combat is pretty simple once you understand the basics. Even when enemy has 4-6 times more HP than you, it's not really that hard to win unless you get really unlucky with card drops. It's probably one of the easiest card games I've played, or I was really lucky ALL THE TIME (which is possible but unlikely).

There are upgrades sold in the shop and you can buy the cards that you need (also you get them as a reward sometimes), so I really haven't felt like the game was unfair. Had to replay one or two fights for a few times, but it's not something that was hard or annoying to do, fights are pretty quick because you basically just spam attack cards and then defense cards when the enemy attacks you, or both at the same time. The important thing is that you see what enemy's gonna do in the next move, so you're basically limited only by rng.

Once I got my hands on good cards and got enough upgrades, the game became even easier, I haven't seen a single game-over CG yet somehow, looks like I've lost only to enemies that didn't have any game-over CGs or they were something like an optional mini-boss, idk.

The music in this game is great, I really enjoyed it.

The CGs (at least the few that I've seen, the ones that were shown in the events since I haven't lost a single time yet) are pretty good but nothing special, a simple live 2d. The voice acting really adds to the experience here and without it these CGs would be very boring, but it's loud AF, had to lower it to like 20% in the settings.

I think this game is a solid 3/5, would recommend to at least try. There are better card games out there and this one just feels mid compared to them, but I wouldn't say it's terrible. Maybe I'll change my mind in the future, but as of now, I think it's good enough to at least complete it once

Really not very good at all.

The fighting is tedious and hilariously tipped against you, even if you do all the side paths and whore Kanna out to make that extra dosh you're going to desperately need. It's not to say that you can't build yourself a decent deck and try and overcome the challenges... but it IS to say that the enemies don't play by the same rules you do, and are specifically made to be damage sponges that inflate their health bars beyond annoyance, verging on deliberately bad balance.
Speaking of which, the boss at the end of the route is also such a hilarious difficulty spike that I had to put the game down. Lowering your guard and damage, while increasing his own guard and his damage every time you damage him. No counterplay, just suffering. The whole game is a master class in frustrating attrition. I didn't even feel like hanging around for the CGs before uninstalling.

New cards and upgrades are drip-fed and not plentiful enough to build an actual strategy around, unless you get some very generous luck on the loot pools.

This game somehow managed to read the cliffnotes of what makes Slay the Spire good, while missing every point of good design that actually made it fun.

The CGs are alright, really not worth the time investment.

The only thing that stands out is that the VA for Kanna is good at slipping into the role and must have gotten some decent direction too. Props to her.

Someone paid 100 bucks to put this up on Steam.

A fairly mediocre card battle game with pretty good scenes (that are unlockable from the start), albeit with limited content. Ennemies have way too much hp which make the combat feel tedious and even while being pretty short, the game still manages to feel grindy.