Charming art style and visuals
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“Excellent art style, good replayability, big content, funny enemies, great main mechanic.”
Steam review · 26.5 h played ↗
Crown Trick
Worth buying? What 277 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 277 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 86%Very Positive · 86%NEXT Studios2020Roguelike · Turn-Based Combat · RPG
−75%$19.99$4.99
US Steam price, checked 1 h ago
The verdict
A charming turn-based roguelite with a clever blink and break system and lovely art, but held back by RNG, uneven balance and unclear UI. Skip it if you want deep variety.
Great for
Players who like slow, puzzle-like tactical roguelikes (Mystery Dungeon, Necrodancer fans) and charming art
Main risk
Runs feel repetitive and luck-driven, with poorly explained mechanics and unbalanced items
What players love
Tactical turn-based combat with blink and break
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“You can blink a limited amount of times, which does not count as an action that ends your turn. You can break enemy "shields", to stun them for several turns and recover blink charges.”
Steam review · 5.9 h played ↗
Build variety with weapons, relics and familiars
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Great variety of weapons, items and relics making many builds possible”
Steam review · 31.2 h played ↗
Relaxed, play-at-your-own-pace gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“let's you play at your own pace so bringing strong strategy and thinking it through is key over twitchy reflexes amidst chaos.”
Steam review · 20.9 h played ↗
Elemental interactions and puzzle-like rooms
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews
“My favorite part of this game is its elemental interaction mechanics, which allows interesting combinations like paralyzing poison puddles, or igniting oil traps.”
Steam review · 15.1 h played ↗
Good replayability and meta progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“Great game, fun concept, great replay value.”
Steam review · 17.5 h played ↗
What players complain about
Heavy RNG and weak, unbalanced items
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“Item balancing is all over the place; as in some items being able to singlehandedly carry your run while other items can immediately ruin your run.”
Steam review · 42.6 h played ↗
Unclear UI and missing info on mechanics
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“There is no tooltip for many of the keywords - There is no icon glossary”
Steam review · 14.5 h played ↗
Save loss, bugs and controller issues
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“After a few days of progress, my save data has been lost, and the local and cloud saves were erased.”
Steam review · 7.5 h played ↗
Repetitive with little variety between runs
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“all playthroughs will feel nearly the same. Same several types of weapons, same enemies, same combat tactics.”
Steam review · 13.2 h played ↗
Grindy meta progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“Currency for permanent upgrades are erased so you cannot accumulate them and anything decent cost more than 1 normal run worth.”
Steam review · 5.7 h played ↗
Punishing curses
Mentioned in ~1 in 18 negative reviews
“curses don't just make the run harder - they just straight up end runs.”
Steam review · 7.8 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unsupported2 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 (32-bit Version)
ProcessorIntel Core(TM) i3-4160 / AMD X4 830
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 / AMD R7 350
Storage2 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7 (64-bit Version)
ProcessorIntel Core(TM) i5-7500 / AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 / AMD R7 360
Storage2 GB available space
OSWindows 7 (32-bit Version)
ProcessorIntel Core(TM) i3-4160 / AMD X4 830
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 / AMD R7 350
Storage2 GB available space
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