ASTREA SIX SIDED ORACLES REVIEW

I was given a PS5 code from Publisher Akupara Games @akuparagames @HAMM1ESHAMLET Developer Little Leo Games @LittleLeoGames

This is released in the UK on the 26/09/2024 and in the UK is priced at £18,99.

INTRODUCTION

Astrea is a deckbuilding roguelike that uses dice instead of cards.

FEATURES

Unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption – In Astrea there is a new type of “damage” system. Purification can be used to damage enemies or heal yourself. On the other hand, corruption can be used to damage yourself or heal the enemies. Pacify enemies through Purification, or Corrupt yourself to unleash abilities that help tip the scales.
Dynamic Health Bar system – With skills attached to your health bar, you can take Corruption to enable these skills and unleash powerful abilities. But be careful, if you take too much Corruption you will be consumed by it.
Not cards, but dice! – Build a dice pool that fits your playstyle. Choose from over 350 dice and three dice types; reliably safe, perfectly balanced, or powerfully risky. A dice type system designed with high-risk, high-reward in its core.
Customize your dice – Forge your fate by editing die faces with new actions, tipping the odds of powerful results into your favor.
Choose from Six Brave Oracles – Each possessing their own unique dice sets, abilities, and playstyles. From ingenious spellcasters to brutish berserkers, whether you like beating the opponent into submission or outsmarting them with clever plays, there’s an oracle for you.
20 Upgradeable Support Sentinels – Enchanted constructs that offer supportive dice rolls making them reliable companions in the heat of battle.
Uncover Over 170 Modifying Blessings – Imbue your Oracle with unique passives yielding potent effects that change up your fundamental tactics. Choose between Star Blessings, passive effects with lower power, or Black Hole Blessings, powerful passive effects with a drawback.
More than 20 random events – Find mysterious locations that can change the course of your run.
Manipulate your enemies and control your fate – Enemies attack using their own die, making it possible for you to manipulate their die to change their intent.
16 Difficulty Levels – Customize your experience using difficulty levels to test all your abilities.

FAN ART

Enemies all have own look and own attacks to learn and alot of variety to them in look and stats.

Pretty and very detailed art style.

Dice driven deckbuilding is very different instead of using cards like alot of deckbuilding games.

Choices are cool as offer different rewards and alot of options to customize runs and is nice as can skip them if don’t wanna risk using them.

Characters that you can use and unlock are cool as all have own look and own decks and stats and own feel to them to suit own playstyle.

Build options are great as so much choice to suit own playstyle and can swap around dice to make safe only or risky dice that do more damage but might hurt you.

Can be challenging and easy to fail.

Deck building options can be daunting as alot of choices.

Felt a bit samey and bit repetitive.

Dice deciding your fate meaning that sometimes you feel as RNG dooms you to fail the run.

OVERALL SUMMARY
Overall enemies all have own look and own attacks to learn in order to beat them with pretty art style and nice dice driven deckbuilding instead of using cards with alot of choices to change rewards and the characters you can use all have own look and stats with own decks and feel and tons of build options to suit your own style. However for £18,99, can be challenging as easy to fail and the deck building can be daunting as so many options to make own build and feels samey and abit repetitive and RNG on dice means sometimes you feel like you are doomed to fail the run.

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Enemies own look, attacks to learn.
Pretty and very detailed art style.
Dice driven deckbuilding different.
Choices cool offer different rewards.
Characters play as own decks, look, stats.
Build options, huge amount of choice.

Can be challenging easy to fail.
Deck building options can be daunting.
Felt samey and bit repetitive.
Dice decide fate meaning sometimes RNG dooms you to fail.