Cobalt Core

This has got to be the cutest, coziest rogue-like card game out there. The art not only looks great but is highly effective at showing what you need to see and cutting out all the noise. The ship movement options provide an organic extra layer on top of the standard card battler flow. The characters are adorable, mechanically unique, and you can combine them in various ways to build your crew (which in turn determines your starting deck and the upgrade options you'll see). And there's even a story. Best of all, this game respects your time in a way many rogue-likes don't: you can just have fun from the get go without any of the usual face-planting and the obligatory follow-up grind that has become the staple of the genre. An easy recommendation.

This is a fantastic roguelike game by all rights. The difficulty scaling and the various synergies between characters give a lot of variety to provide the fun of progression from a mechanical sense. The addition of an overarching story does a great job of providing further incentive to grind past even the most challenging runs. It progresses through wins and losses to some degree, which can give that does a great job of shredding off some of the frustration that can build when it feels like you're not getting anywhere or experimenting with builds. The killer soundtrack is really the cherry on top, at that.

It's narrative driven, meaning that the focus is more on the story rather than gameplay. I disliked Hades for this, but I see the appeal. It's fun for a few hours but gets repetitive fast.

Great roguelike deckbuilder, which I highly recommend to anyone who likes that kind of game. The gameplay is simple yet very strategic, the diffculty levels are well balanced, there's a lot of variety with the different ships, cards and artifacts we can choose from as we play. Also I really enjoy the funny dialogues between the characters. They're all very charming. The soundrack is great too. I honestly don't have any negative thing to say about this game. It's one of the best roguelikes I've played.

Love it! in terms of length of content, between luck be a land lord and slay the spire. Still kinda bite size, can be potentially beaten in a weekend. Despite being lighter, the lore really makes up for it. The basis of the game is pretty unique for a rogue like, but not too many of the mechanics were new in the rogue like world besides the missile mechanic with Issac. Really cute, loved the art and dialogue. Not too challenging overall, the hardest setting took one attempt. Though it feels like the perfect level of difficulty for replayability. Like if I ever want to pop in to do another round I could start at the hardest, after some time of not playing. Though saying this with a grain of salt as I do a lot of rogue likes. Overal has everything I want in a rogue like, lore, powerful draw mechanics, and scaled difficulty.

Great rogue-like deckbuilder, notably with the addition of being able to move your ship, which adds a puzzle element to the levels which feels very natural and intuitive. Game plays very smoothly with nice animations, and I didn't experience a single bug. The story elements add a really nice sense of immersion to what can easily be a bit of a number-crunchy, stale genre. I'm a big fan of the graphics and colour pallets used - everything feels belonging to the universe. Overall, extremely impressed :)

Just finished the game and man... what a pleasant experience! Cobalt Core it's your usual Roguelike game where you need to destroy ships in other to reach the final boss. The map is divided in 3 Zone, with unique enemies (each time getting harder). In your ship, you have to select 3 crews out of 8, which each having uniques card (defense, attack, move, etc.). Each battle completed you are greeted with rewards such as cards and artifacts and those can be at your advantage or not. You get to upgrade or remove the cards too! Even repairing your own ship at the Shop. There are also Unknown places that can be visited (from the "?" icon on the map) where you may encounter some enemies or face a dangerous event (leaving you with 1 less card or some damage), or meet some friendly fellas that can give you rewards (after a challenge). I looked up on this game once I gifted it to my bestfriend (since it was on his wishlist), and I gotta say, it was worth the money I've spent! I hope to see more of games similar to this with interesting characters. I was surprised that the game's OST was made by none other than Aaron Cherof, known for his work on the Minecraft: Tricky Trials OST. The game's OST is freaking fantastic, especially Epoch, Mean Machine and Self-Defense. Overhaul, this is a game I would recommend to play, especially for those who are looking for a Roguelike Deckbuilder and strategy game.

I love this game,maybe because i love deck building roglickes or because its fun, i dont know

As card game enthusiast and furry I cant recommend this game enough. The positioning mechanic is elegant and in ludonarrative harmony with dogfighting in space. Avoiding damage gives me dopamine. I love each character with my entire heart they make me laugh and I want to unlock all their stories so they can make me cry. I give it 4/4 hooves (it would be 5/4 but I have yet to see a horse so until then the devs must settle for the theoretical maximum)

Roguelike card battler but sci-fi spaceship fighting so that your positioning actually matters; with furry characters as different crewmates, each with a different specialty that banter and chat and interact with one another as well as the enemy. Amazing flavor, amazing gameplay for roguelike deckbuilders, very pleasant on the eyes, music is also pretty good, I can not find a single flaw to this game other than that some cards are just outright bad so one has no reason to use them. But since you're given plenty of card options, you can always ignore those, and it barely takes you out of the experience at all. Highly recommend to all roguelike fans and deckbuilder fans and all furry enthusiasts. Worth the price for sure.

It's a Slay-The-Spire-like, but with unique mechanics like ship parts and movement. It has a lot of dialogue and interactions with the crew members. It's fun, cute, and also funny sometimes, with good music.

Really fun turn-based spaceship combat roguelike with charming characters and a surprisingly-intriguing story. The memories collection is a pretty fun way for the game to reward winning multiple runs with each character, by giving a little more of the story each time. An excellent lil game.

I'm generally not much of a fan of deckbuilder roguelikes, so I've been very pleasantly surprised by how much I love this game. It's also impressive how much I enjoy it given how bad I am at it. It just feels so much more active and engaging in its gameplay than I expect from this sort of game, so it's a great reliable game to come back to when my ADHD is making it difficult to focus on most things. I feel like each cycle/run is a perfect length (long enough to enjoy the sense of progress over an individual run, short enough to avoid feeling drawn-out or making failure at a late stage too miserable) and I've been loving the learning experience of mastering each character's cards. The visuals are simple but extremely well done, with adorable character portraits and everything just feeling like it fits together very well. The soundtrack is genuinely one of my favourite video game OSTs and provides such a great sense of motivation as you play. The game runs perfectly on my very subpar laptop, it honestly doesn't seem like I'm running a game at all (no loud fan noises or overheating whatsoever, which is what happens for me even with most very simplistic games). Basically this is a new entry into a very beloved category of games for me: "games that made me really care about and enjoy an aspect of gameplay that I'd previously found kinda boring/awkward" (in this case deckbuilding and general strategy in combat) and I'm super happy to find something like this with a setting and style that I like.

Great soundtrack! Great art style and a fun rogue lite game doing something a bit different. Worth 20-40 of yours time to enjoy. Got it in the sales and came with another game. Crazy value for the price.

Cobalt Core/10 Funny, engaging, good story, solid mechanics. Ty devs.

There's not much I can say that hasn't already been said about this game. In brief, it's an above-average card game mechanically (though a bit easy and limited in enemy/boss variety), with the greatest story, character, and heart of ANY card game on Steam, as well as one of the finest soundtracks of any Steam card game. In many ways, this is to roguelite card games what Hades is to roguelite action games. I implore anyone who buys, plays, and enjoys this game to stick it through to the true ending (all 18 memories unlocked). The true ending is heartfelt, satisfying, and has left a lasting impression on me and many others.

Game is highly strategical and satisfying, answers the question, what if slay the spire had more fun ui

Deceptively complicated deck builder. Lots of fun and nails that 'just one more run' feel.

Cool story, fun characters, and a great introduction to deck-builders - this was my first game of the sort, and I never felt overwhelmed unless I had intentionally set myself up for a challenge. Definitely worth the cost!

Best way I can describe it is FTL x Slay the Spire I'm usually not a fan of rouge-lite deckbuilders, but this game managed to hit all the right notes for me. Great music, fun characters, a fair difficulty curve where it doesn't feel like your run was doomed from the start (usually, getting really bad luck on a run will still screw you over) and the unique mechanics and abilities each character brings to the table all come together to make one hell of a fun experience. Definitely worth a play or 10.

Truly innovates on the classic roguelike-deckbuilder formula in a number of ways. Extremely solid bones. Further, in a genre that often doesn't bother with narrative (or worse, does it quite heavy-handedly and poorly), I feel like the little dashes of character and narrative that appear really shine through and are quite well done without being overbearing. I don't think it has the really high nutso ceilings that some of its contemporaries have, but I've never been one for trying to break the game anyways. Highly Recommend.

I rarely write reviews but Cobalt Core deserves it. Steam recommended this game to me as I play a lot of Slay the Spire. You can see a lot of influence from STS, but enough new mechanics are present to avoid it feeling like a clone. You're looking at a mashup of STS (similar deck building and terminology), FTL (random events, shops, pathing across a galaxy sector) and Crying Suns (pixel art, music, rich story). It really works. The quality of production is excellent. The entire thing is just 'cute'. It's just supremely good fun.

Can't recommend this game enough, easily my favorite in years. Worth every minute. Check out the modding scene too, it's impressively good! Most of that lives on NexusMods but there's a fair few in dev on the discord as well, lots of great community there too. I don't know how I could possibly describe how much I love this game... so I won't. :smuggins:

This game is very lovely, I love the characters, the mystery, the cards and progression. Overall a wonderful deckbuilder!

good rogue deckbuilder, funny, and charming art.

furry slay the spire goes hard :3 The movement of your ship and middle objects are a nice twist. It is quite easy though, although this does mean that you can usually win with any set of cards by playing well.

It's exactly what I expected from looking at the screenshots. This is *not* a rogue-lite. You do not gain power over runs. There's a couple unlocks that give new ways of playing, but "better" is pretty subjective. Each playthrough takes about an hour... and after 16 playthoughs with different character/ship combinations it's played out for me. Your mileage may vary. Payed $13 for it, so I got my money's worth.

Fun lil game. Quite uniqu4e for its mechanics. Some cards feel crazy OP.

One of my favorite deck-building roguelites. Absolute killer of a soundtrack, nice story, and a ton of fun. Make sure to check out Sunshine Heavy Industries as well, Rocket Rat know what they're doing, and they do it WELL.

cozy sci-fi roguelike with a fantastic ost and plenty of replayability.

Very fun and cute game! Love the mixing of decks. Wish there were more opportunities to both add and remove cards so my deck could grow more as the game progressed so builds could gain more of an identity.

This is "Slay the Spire"... in space. If you liked that one, you will like this one, too. It's cutesy, also. :) The only sour note, is that this was in my wishlist. I was waiting for a 50% sale. I saw it go on sale for 51%, so I bought it. I only found out after, that Steam was selling a BUNDLE at 51% sale, not just this one game. The bundle was Cobalt Core (which I wanted), and another piece of poop that I never would have bought, had I known. The wishlist page gave NO indication of that. So now I have to always go to the actual store page and never again buy directly from my wishlist page. Thx, Steam!

This is an instant favorite. I am so sad that this game flew under my radar for so long! Do not let the same happen to you. The gameplay loop is so much fun, and the characters and story are VERY compelling. (Buy with knowledge that you will spend the next week of your life on this game)

I normally don't like these kinds of games, but this one looked particularly good. Im not used to thinking much when playing games, so this was quite the experience. I enjoyed it, and would recommend it to people who like deck building games. Each run takes less than an hour if you know what your doing.

I'll keep this short: The reviews don't lie! This game seems (so far) to be the perfect balance between sticking to what works and taking inspirations from the greats (Slay the Spire) and keeping it fresh with their unique battle system that not only adds movement, but also "Objects/Projectiles" that give at least 2 new dimensions for vet's of the genre to explore. +Music slaps +Characters are cool +Story is engaging and not dragging I see myself putting many hours into this :)

Polished look, funny dialogue, tight game play, with an absolutely amazing soundtrack. This game is much better than its predecessors of this genre. I am hoping this game opens up to overhaul mods to other characters / franchises / crossovers because that would make an already great game even better (and infinitely replayable).

[h1]Slay The Spire With Ships[/h1] A great game to spend your free time and when you don't know what else to play. OOTB you will get: [list] [*] 8 pilots with their own sets of cards (you choose 3) [*] 5 types of ships [*] 4 types of difficulties [/list] in addition, there are mods where you will get different sets of pilots, ships, and enemy types So.. yeah. the game has some replayability value for it it usually takes me around 30 minutes to finish one round (provided i didn't die) so it is a good game to play during my break. Recommended

basically a slot machine no skill expression sad it took me this long to notice cute art tho but still a slot machine.

I actually like the game but theres some critical issues with it for me. 1) When you view your deck (which u often do), i can only see 10 cards clearly and the top halfs of 5 more cards. i have no way to scroll. Not sure if mouse works but im playing in my bed and dont want to play with a mouse. Ive never seen this function missing in this type of game before. Arrowkeys, mousepad, nothing works. 2)'The game when i close it doesnt actually close. it keeps on running in the background, and its power usage is quite high. It says i have 22h of gameplay when its actually like 3h but i keep forgetting i need to manually close it in steam of task manager. 3) Too many annoying text story. I'll be honest and say i dont like reading stories. But for some reason i cant skip it. it annoys me so much i will probably refund the game because it was something the devs said they will add... 2 years ago. but i cant refund bc of issue 2 giving me too many playing hours

Great game with value for money ! I can see a lot of love from developer in This game

I'll never get tired of the 2nd area boss music. Incredible stuff.

It's a fun little rogueliTe deckbuilder.

I am not a huge fan of roguelite deckbuilders but this game, I love this game.

The power of friendship and this gun I found

Nice simple deck builder

Its great! Play it!

i wish ive found this game sooner

Its a good game

haha jupiter moons go brrr

cool game