Aces & Adventures is a fun card game. You draw from 2 decks, one is a normal ass card deck and you attack/defend with poker hands; the other is your character's abilities. There is a story mode that lasts about 4ish hours and you get to build your ability deck to fit what you want. It's very similar to the Hearthstone adventures. There are 4 difficulties and you gotta start on the easiest, in which deck building probably doesn't matter to much.

In between the chapters of the campaign you will get mana and fill up a tube. Half a tube gets you a card pack for deck building, and a full tube lets you go level up whatever character you want. Characters go to level 30 and get just base stronger, and let you pick different upgrade paths in the chapters for different builds.

There are also 2 other game modes besides campaign, and they are both Slay The Spire-esque roguelike modes. One you play with a deck you build yourself, and the other you start with 10 cards and it's pretty much Slay the Spire.

I played one round of the Deck Building one and my deck sucked ass but I still got through it. I'm not much of a deck builder so I don't really see myself doing that. I beat 3/4 difficulties for the other one though and it was fun until the last one. The last difficulty is just very insanely hard without getting incredibly lucky. That's probably the point of hard difficulty roguelikes i guess?, but it felt even more exacerbated by this being a card game and not something you can skill your way out of.

Also I hated every class but the starting one, none of them I vibed with.

I love the main menu though, the visuals of it give off a very 90's PC vibe to me.