It's been free before, but that was a year ago

Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and an unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.

• Unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption - In Astrea there is a new type of “damage” system. Purification can be used to damage enemies or heal yourself. On the other hand, corruption can be used to damage yourself or heal the enemies. Pacify enemies through Purification, or Corrupt yourself to unleash abilities that help tip the scales.

• Dynamic Health Bar system - With skills attached to your health bar, you can take Corruption to enable these skills and unleash powerful abilities. But be careful, if you take too much Corruption you will be consumed by it.

• Not cards, but dice! - Build a dice pool that fits your playstyle. Choose from over 350 dice and three dice types; reliably safe, perfectly balanced, or powerfully risky. A dice type system designed with high-risk, high-reward in its core.

• Customize your dice - Forge your fate by editing die faces with new actions, tipping the odds of powerful results into your favor.

• Choose from Six Brave Oracles - Each possessing their own unique dice sets, abilities, and playstyles. From ingenious spellcasters to brutish berserkers, whether you like beating the opponent into submission or outsmarting them with clever plays, there’s an oracle for you.

• 20 Upgradeable Support Sentinels - Enchanted constructs that offer supportive dice rolls making them reliable companions in the heat of battle.

• Uncover over 170 modifying Blessings - Imbue your Oracle with unique passives yielding potent effects that changes up your fundamental tactics. Choose between Star Blessings, passive effects with lower power, or Black Hole Blessings, powerful passive effects with a drawback.

• More than 20 random events - Find mysterious locations that can change the course of your run.

• Manipulate your enemies and control your fate - Enemies attack using their own die, making it possible for you to manipulate their die to change their intent.

• 16 Difficulty Levels - Customize your experience using difficulty levels to test all your abilities.

Long ago - when ancient ruins were once flourishing civilizations and their populace lived in idyllic bliss - a mystical star governed all. Loyal disciples, called Six-Sided Oracles, were blessed by their star, granting them the strength to seal away the gift of heavenly bodies within mystic relics.

All was perfect and harmonious, until that one fateful day - The Crimson Dawn Cataclysm. A ferocious inferno sundered down from the sky, engulfing the entirety of the star system, crumbling the foundations of their society and corrupting the souls of the weak-willed. The disciples of the star were lost to the chaos - their creations scattered across a vast world of ruin. Could there still exist those who were capable of wielding their power?

Eons later, descendants of the Six-Sided Oracles embark on a journey to finish the failed battle that their predecessors started and save their star system.

I was curious —until the slop hit me. 😅 It's not vibe-coded, too?

? Where and what ai was used? There is no indication or warning that AI was used, and it doesn’t even remotely look that way as well.

People need to just stop throwing that word out for anything they slightly dislike, it’s getting old fast, especially when it’s clear that ai wasn’t even remotely involved.

This game was made and published before AI was a thing. And yes, commercial writing always sound like slop because it's what it is: the back cover of a game writen to titilate your curiosity about it.

Fair enough. This timeline's got us all a little jumpy these days. 😅

It's not clear to someone who's never heard of this title, and has no way at first glance to know its release date. Ya know, like me, for instance.

Furthermore, as "AI" becomes more and more of a problem every fucking day, how about you join the rest of us plebs in not allowing it to sneak past you, eh? At least, think of the people such complacency affects, long-term. ☝🏼

I agree

Maybe do a little legwork and research before incorrectly calling something it’s not?

It takes a few minutes to google something, you don’t need to comment about everything….

It also requires zero effort and is quite clear and well labelled about when it was released, you would have to care and think for yourself though. But you just want to bitch apparantly.

From the store page, every game has a release date listed quote obviously, just like an ai disclaimer would….

The problem is people just throwing words and insults out without even thinking for themselves.

At least, think of the people such complacency affects, long-term. ☝🏼

Slander is far worse, give your head a fucking shake dude. It’s not complacent to not say anything when it’s not ai. It’s called knowledge lmfao. Ai isn’t going to sneak past the majority of people, because they into shit instead of just throwing insults and slander out.

So your first instinct is to cry out slop and slander something instead of looking into it? The games release date that’s on the store page is a huge hint. The lack of a disclaimer, is another huge hint.

Jesus dude, I don’t think that should need to pointed out that that’s problematic and shouldn’t be how you voice something.

Have had this game for a while now. Very fun and quite challenging! Also the dice mechanic is pretty unique. Love the art style! You can tell a lot of love went into it.

Mind taking a breath? I replied above that I recognize many of us are jumpy. Sorry to include you in that generalization. My bad.

Jesusfuck, you're bored, eh? 🙄

@wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com @plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works alright calm it you two, just play the game or move on, you don't need the last word

Already blocked them, yep. 🤙🏼

lol, maybe take a breath before calling shit slop because you don’t like it. There’s no one here that’s jumpy other than you, we are all calm.

And all I’m doing is calling out your bullshit, but go off mate. You made a mistake, got called out, and yet you STILL double and now triple down on the same thing.

You’re the problem here.

Ignorance needs to be called out, they tried defending it, so I responded with detail. Don’t clump me in with getting the last word.

Just because you're right you don't have to be rude about it

Rudeness begets rudeness, if someone is going to give attitude, they’re getting it right back. This feels like yelling at the person for calling out a bully while you let the bully keep going.

They lost when they tried saying I was complacent and allowing this to perpetuate, I’m not gonna stand for that. Sorry, there’s context.