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Dead Town Tales

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2023

Should you play it?

Dead Town Tales is a game that focuses on strategy card building and core Roguelike gameplay. You can learn about this romantic and mysterious world by fighting and exploring, meeting people, ghosts and monsters in Dead Town and experiencing the unknown and making choices together with them.

What works
  • Unique chinese folklore and art style
  • Innovative card mechanics without energy cost
  • Multiple endings and branching storylines
  • Dual language voice acting (mandarin and cantonese)
  • Good replayability with different characters and strategies
Things to keep in mind
  • Ui and control issues affecting gameplay experience
  • Some pacing and repetition concerns in multiple playthroughs
  • Balance issues with card strength and difficulty scaling
  • Limited content and depth in current version
  • Lack of clear guidance for story progression and endings

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • System Crash

  • Pyrene

  • Nitro Kid

  • Blood Card

  • Tiny Tactics

  • Sol Cesto

  • Age of Defense

  • Tower Tactics: Liberation

  • One Turn Kill
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • System Crash

  • Pyrene

  • Nitro Kid
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Dead Town Tales: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fellowship, Violence, Cooperation, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

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