The core parts of Tamarak Path might be recognisable to anybody accustomed to the deck-building roguelike style. You select a path via a randomly generated fantasy map, incessantly encountering monsters, utilizing your prizes to assemble the deck with which you’ll battle more and more troublesome monsters.
The important thing twist in Tamarak Path is that the deck you construct will not be made up of ordinary playing cards, however somewhat of collected cube sides. You begin off with two cube, populated with essentially the most primary attacking and defensive strikes out there within the sport, in addition to one or two extra attention-grabbing sides primarily based on which character you might be enjoying.
This offers Tamarak Path a a lot stronger aspect of likelihood than related video games. In addition to needing luck on the subject of the perimeters you discover within the first place, there’s additionally the truth that you’ll by no means have full management over your cube roll.
Nevertheless, this distinctive characteristic additionally opens up new avenues for attention-grabbing methods in battle. The location of every die facet you discover can have a huge effect in your fight. Some not solely have a direct influence on the battlefield, however are affected by collisions between your cube. Others trigger the die to flip, which means you get using a second facet of the identical die throughout that flip.
If you’re fortunate sufficient to come across a treasure chest in your route, you can even gather die cores. These provide quite a lot of boosts if you use them in battle and generally is a worthwhile and even integral side of your battle technique. There’s actually scope to determine how one can make die sides and cores work collectively to ramp up your energy. On run, you may turn into an unstoppable machine rampaging throughout the map.
Every time you might be defeated, you come back to the lodge to begin over. Each boss battle you win rewards you with forex referred to as Garmonbozia. This can be utilized to rebuild the crumbling lodge which acts as your base. Every accomplished improve presents boons to your future runs, though it could possibly be extra apparent the place precisely they influence the gameplay.
There are three playable characters. You meet one on the very starting, and the opposite two it’s important to unlock with upgrades to the lodge. Whereas their first rolls will utilise the identical primary strikes, they’ve completely different swimming pools of die sides out there to them tailor-made to their characters, leading to completely different battle methods to play with. You largely see the variations between the three after you’ve collected an honest quantity of die sides on any given run. A few of the core mechanics designed to showcase their particular person personalities could possibly be extra apparent, because it’s often solely on notably good runs the place the distinctions actually shine.
The world you discover in Tamarak Path is a enjoyable fantasy setting, with an attention-grabbing vary of enemies break up into distinct camps, from humanised animals to spectral spirits. The art work, animation and soundtrack are all stunningly crafted to make the sport as a complete a delight to take a look at as you play.
The outline of the sport hints at a “malevolent presence” infecting the land, which you might want to defeat. In any other case, there isn’t a whole lot of story to Tamarak Path. This isn’t an enormous challenge, as it’s fairly enjoyable to piece collectively the main points of the world with every run and to see extra of it as you handle to plunge deeper into the path. Whereas the main focus right here is evidently on the gameplay, this does go away many attention-grabbing narrative parts which can be begging to be explored with extra depth.
There are actually parts of Tamarak Path that it could be good to see given extra of a possibility to shine. Nevertheless, the features which have been a core focus are very polished, leading to an addictive sport that checks all of the containers for its style at an affordable value for the gameplay you get.