"Deckbuilding"

Devs should be able to remove tags people give them. Also people need to learn genres.

I do not recommend this if you are looking for a deckbuilding game. It's very easy so far and I am sure the characters and story gets good, but it seems a bit cheesy and they never tell you what a cycle or rotation are tho they use them every other line... (I think a cycle is a week and a rotation is either a month or year? I assume year since rotation like a year irl is, but who knows.)

everybody's gay

A fun Visual Novel homage to morning cartoons with some fun card-battling mechanics that has a fun and optimistic sci-fi vibe akin to Becky Chambers' novels.

The VN part is as standard as they come. It's fully voiced, which is a mixed bag in itself, but most of the performances are good. The art stands out, as it did for these guys' last game, and adds a huge serving of charm to the overall package. Some very endearing characters (Belmont is my guy) and mostly consistently fun and good writing. There are some head-shake-inducing moments where the cast are making some pretty dumb decisions that are more or less fine depending on your buy-in with the style of cartoon it is paying homage to.

The card-battling is fun and nicely ramps up the complications and possible combinations as the game goes along. It's not terribly difficult bar some spikes here and there - mostly the boss battles - so more experienced card game players probably want to play on hard (I played on normal).

All in all, it's a charming, pretty relaxing game to trot through. There's some potential replayability, depending on how much content you want to complete - as there are a few divergent choices and different crew member missions that I don't believe you can complete all within a single play-through.