Phantom Rose is an interesting spin on a card battler with light trappings of Darkest Dungeon in the mix. This game focuses almost purely on combat with very light elements of exploration with event and search rooms. Overall, the game does gradually ramp up the challenge making things very stressful come Diamond 7, but once you finally clear all levels of Diamond Adventure, you find yourself with little to do beyond grinding to unlock every skin in the game. I enjoyed it for its run time, but it lacks much to keep you playing when all is said and done. The only other criticism I have is an erratic difficulty curve, the game is way too easy up until about Diamond 5, and quickly becomes very volatile as the compounding trial options force a necessity for good cards to appear or you'll have a nightmare that will swiftly come to an end.

Reviewed on Nov 09, 2023


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