A grimoire that rewrites itself with every page you turn, and you stacking cards hoping to survive one more line.

Roguebook's profile tells a curious split. It grabs players by the heart, ahead of three quarters of all games on connection, though that rests on very few votes, to confirm. Fun follows, ahead of 71% of titles, that moment when you fire up a quick run and end up wrung out. But the deeper you go, the rougher it gets. Rediscovery, controller feel, the soundtrack: all near the very bottom, ahead of just a few percent. Art direction doesn't climb much higher either. There's the tension: you get attached, but what lingers afterward doesn't leave a lasting mark.

In the roguelike deck-builder family, the genre lives off replayability and mechanical thrill. On exactly that ground, Roguebook struggles to stand apart from the giants of the genre.

So, for who? For you if you love tinkering with a deck, hunting the perfect combo and losing track of time for one session. A lot less if you're after the soundtrack that haunts you or the thrill of a first run you'd love to live again.