Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles

Item: Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Rating: 73
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-07-15

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Summary

Engaging, replayable roguelike deck-builder
Unique dice mechanics and strategic depth
Stunning art and music
Suffers from excessive randomness
Overly complex mechanics
Unbalanced difficulty scaling

Emotions

Satisfaction32%Frustration17%Disappointment13%Excitement7%Enjoyment6%

Reviews (sample size): 844
Helpful reviews: 81%
Unhelpful reviews: 19%
Protest reviews: 0%

73%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
27%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 2137
Negative points: 1500
Gameplay points: 1814
Perf. points: 8
Rec. points: 348
Misc points: 182

Point	Description	Importance
Engaging & Replayable Gameplay Description The game offers a highly enjoyable and addictive gameplay experience with significant replayability. Players appreciate its accessibility, engaging loop, and overall fun factor, making it suitable for both casual and dedicated play. Importance 71%	The game offers a highly enjoyable and addictive gameplay experience with significant replayability. Players appreciate its accessibility, engaging loop, and overall fun factor, making it suitable for both casual and dedicated play.	71%
Innovative Roguelike Deck-builder Description The game is a fresh and innovative take on the roguelike deck-builder genre, particularly for fans of Slay the Spire. It introduces unique mechanics, such as dice instead of cards, offering a distinct experience while maintaining the core appeal of the genre. Importance 61%	The game is a fresh and innovative take on the roguelike deck-builder genre, particularly for fans of Slay the Spire. It introduces unique mechanics, such as dice instead of cards, offering a distinct experience while maintaining the core appeal of the genre.	61%
Stunning Art & Music Description The game features exceptional and unique art direction, visuals, and music. Reviewers consistently praise the stunning hand-drawn style, thematic color palettes, and atmospheric soundtrack, which significantly enhance the overall experience. Importance 44%	The game features exceptional and unique art direction, visuals, and music. Reviewers consistently praise the stunning hand-drawn style, thematic color palettes, and atmospheric soundtrack, which significantly enhance the overall experience.	44%
Unique Dice Mechanics Description The dice-based combat system is a core innovation, replacing traditional cards with six-sided dice. This mechanic adds strategic depth, randomness, and satisfying tactical choices, as players can modify dice faces and mitigate luck. Importance 40%	The dice-based combat system is a core innovation, replacing traditional cards with six-sided dice. This mechanic adds strategic depth, randomness, and satisfying tactical choices, as players can modify dice faces and mitigate luck.	40%
Strategic Depth & Accessibility Description The game strikes a balance between strategic depth and accessibility. While easy to pick up, it offers complex mechanics and encourages thoughtful decision-making, risk management, and experimentation, rewarding patient strategists. Importance 34%	The game strikes a balance between strategic depth and accessibility. While easy to pick up, it offers complex mechanics and encourages thoughtful decision-making, risk management, and experimentation, rewarding patient strategists.	34%
Extensive Build Variety Description The game offers extensive build variety and customization options, allowing players to create powerful and satisfying synergies. Each run feels unique due to the wide range of choices and the ability to minimize randomness. Importance 31%	The game offers extensive build variety and customization options, allowing players to create powerful and satisfying synergies. Each run feels unique due to the wide range of choices and the ability to minimize randomness.	31%
Tactical & Fluid Combat Description The combat system is fast, fluid, and tactical, requiring strategic thinking to overcome varied and well-designed enemies. The unique health system and diverse mechanics contribute to a tense and engaging battle experience. Importance 23%	The combat system is fast, fluid, and tactical, requiring strategic thinking to overcome varied and well-designed enemies. The unique health system and diverse mechanics contribute to a tense and engaging battle experience.	23%