Randel's Quest (DEMO)

Just gave this a shot! The visuals look great and I love the idea of crafting words to get the different outcomes. But I did find it a little frustrating to play so far. Having a good word to solve the Wordle be a bad word in terms of effects was a bit more annoying than fun, and it felt dispiriting when the reels were all or almost all bad.

I wonder if you would consider having the reels be all positive things, and the enemy attacks you on a separate schedule? That would feel a lot more positive and exciting. There might be different values of positive effects which you might or might not want in a given situation.

An alternate thought I had was it would be nice if the green reel was generally more positive than the gray reel, instead of them being the same across the board. That way, your goals are usually still aligned, with rarer interruptions where you want to avoid green.

I didn't like that I had to start the first guess with no information and just suffer the consequences. Could there be an initial guess before rolling the reels for effects, to give you a starting point to make decisions for the next guesses?

Sorry for the unsolicited ideas, but I do think this is a fun idea so it inspired me to brainstorm about it. 🙂

Cool idea, but a bit too random. In my understanding, a situation when all types of tiles are harmful at once is a thing that can happen in the game. Also, there is no control over what one's guess will do, which isn't very fun even on paper.

More importantly, the slot machine animations are way too long and should be skippable. I often make notes playing Wordle, so if I do them right after I saw the results, I only remember to pull the lever after I'm done with them, this losing a lot of time just idling.

Good job with rules clarity tho, I skipped all the boring text, and the game still made sense to me. Way to go!

Super fun to play and very nice visuals, one thing happened to me while playing in spanish mode, in the first round I got "CHICO" and at fourth round it was also "CHICO", maybe not repeating the words would be a nice to add.

Me and my girlfriend just played this for a while and had a blast. I think the keyboard should be smaller for sure, maybe even moved in the area of "dead space" to the right of the game. As of now, the keyboard hides some of the game elements which feels "cheap" and is just overall intrusive when trying to play. Overall though, I genuinely like the feel of it. Felt pretty authentic and the art is really nice. I will say, another thing I noticed is that the music doesn't loop properly. 

Other than that, I think it's solid. Oh, and more interesting ways of dealing damage or healing, maybe like some poison or like some buffs or debuffs of some kind. After playing for about an hour or so, I realized that I wasn't even paying attention to the rouge elements of the game because I was just healing and shielding everything. 

Fun game, Felt that each addition of the slot works equally, like even if i picked the other of the three options i would still win? maybe having more strategy based on previous upgrades would be better and not just auto clicker

I enjoyed the presentation, but it wouldn't accept a bunch of very normal words as guesses for some reason?

Addictive!!

This is so fun and well thought out! I adore Peglin, and I've been hoping someone would add turn-based combat to all my other favorite casual games. My partner and I played this for two hours last night and way past our bedtime, so I think that's a sign you've made something awesome!