Shroom and Gloom

Worth buying? What 207 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 207 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 93%Very Positive · 93%2026

$14.99

US Steam price, checked 5 h ago

The verdict

A gorgeous hand-drawn roguelike deckbuilder with a fresh dual-deck system and good value, but easy and thin on content for now. Skip it if you want hard, deep replayability.

Great for

Slay the Spire and Inscryption fans who want an atmospheric deckbuilder with wild combo-crafting

Main risk

Runs feel samey and too easy once you find a broken card combo, with little meta progression

What players love

Striking hand-drawn art and atmosphere

Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews

“The artfulness of the art direction alone is like a stranger things mushroom popup book.”
Steam review · 0.9 h played ↗

“Great art direction. Everything drips with grimy mushy dungeon style.”
Steam review · 12.8 h played ↗

“Visuals 12 out of 10, gameplay 12 out of 10, boss music 12 out of 10”
Steam review · translated · 7.2 h played ↗

Unique dual-deck system (combat plus camp)

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“The camping system adds a lot of extra consideration around how you manage your health and upgrades.”
Steam review · 27.6 h played ↗

“The exploration deck mechanic is so unique and well done.”
Steam review · 6 h played ↗

“The idea of two decks for exploration and combat works great”
Steam review · translated · 10.6 h played ↗

Fresh take on Slay the Spire and Inscryption

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“this is the first deckbuilding roguelike that i feel actually rivals slay the spire and brings enough unique elements to be truly novel for the genre”
Steam review · 12 h played ↗

“Child of Slay the Spire and Inscryption, really good stuff.”
Steam review · translated · 11 h played ↗

Great value for the price in early access

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews

“Even for early access, at €15, it feels complete.”
Steam review · 8.6 h played ↗

“It's $15. It's a lot of fun! It has a Demo, give it a try.”
Steam review · 13.6 h played ↗

Satisfying synergies and broken combos

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews

“Lots of synergies that make you feel like you're breaking the game (in a good way).”
Steam review · 3.7 h played ↗

“many paths to "break" the game by building absolutely insane cards”
Steam review · 7.2 h played ↗

Responsive, transparent developers

Mentioned in ~1 in 50 positive reviews

“The Devs are involved, available, open, and transparent with their community.”
Steam review · 13.6 h played ↗

What players complain about

Repetitive runs with little variety

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“every run feels the exact same.”
Steam review · 5.4 h played ↗

“It's basically camp, shrooms, camp, shrooms.”
Steam review · 5.5 h played ↗

“Extremely repetitive. Combat and cards have very little build variety.”
Steam review · 2.9 h played ↗

Too easy and easily broken

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“You can easily one turn the final bosses, it's a joke”
Steam review · 5.3 h played ↗

“The main strategy is buff 1 or 2 cards and spam them and that’s it.”
Steam review · 9.3 h played ↗

“Deckbuilding feels meaningless.”
Steam review · 6.3 h played ↗

Bugs, soft locks and UI issues

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“In the six hours of gameplay I got softlocked out of combat four times.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“I can't move forward (using W) or backwards (using S) _unless I also hold A or D at the same time_.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“There's no key re-mapping.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

Second area, Janitor and late bosses badly balanced

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“the system in the 2nd area is a complete nightmare and ruins the whole thing for me”
Steam review · 63.8 h played ↗

“once u get to Janitor game becomes unplayable”
Steam review · 5.5 h played ↗

“It makes 90% of builds useless by destroying cards/limiting energy.”
Steam review · 1.2 h played ↗

No meta progression or run rewards

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews

“there is absolutely no upgrades earned between runs outside of finding news cards within rounds”
Steam review · 5.4 h played ↗

“The game needs a way to upgrade your character after each run.”
Steam review · 2.7 h played ↗

Poor optimization and overheating

Mentioned in ~1 in 29 negative reviews

“The game seems highly unoptimized - my macbook, on full charge, is nearly dead after a 40 minute session playing this game.”
Steam review · 3.2 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Minimum

OSWindows 10 x64 Bit

ProcessorIntel Core i3-6300 / AMD FX-8350

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsGeForce GTX 960 / Radeon RX 570

Storage13 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 10

ProcessorIntel Core i7-6950X / AMD Ryzen 5 2600

Memory16 GB RAM

GraphicsGeForce RTX 1080 / Radeon RX Vega 56 / Arc A580

Storage13 GB available space

OSWindows 10 x64 Bit

ProcessorIntel Core i3-6300 / AMD FX-8350

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsGeForce GTX 960 / Radeon RX 570

Storage13 GB available space

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