Thank you so much! And yeah, the difficulty definitely starts to ramp up around the 3rd boss. We’ll keep fine-tuning the difficulty based on player feedback. Glad you enjoyed it!
I love it! I’ve been playing it for a good while because it gives me major Cult of the Lamb vibes, as well as Card Wars (the Cartoon Network card game).
Art: It’s beautiful! The character design and the game itself look great. It has a style that reminds me of Cult of the Lamb because of its aesthetics. Without a doubt, Lucy is my favorite character so far.
Gameplay: It’s really polished! I didn’t get it at first, but once I figured it out, it became even more fun. It felt as if math suddenly stopped being boring, and I got completely hooked on planning strategies!
Graphics: This is something that will probably be added in the future, but even though the game is well-optimized, it would be awesome to have options to adjust screen resolution, toggle effects on/off, and lower the graphics settings. This way, players wouldn’t have to rely solely on the default optimization. This is a VERY important factor because you can lose potential users if they can’t play due to lag.
I absolutely love it! I’m really curious and intrigued about what future updates will bring to this project. I’m sure you will do excellent with everything you have to offer! ⭐⭐⭐🌟
By the way, I noticed you support several languages (English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese). It would be amazing to have Spanish as well! In fact, I’d love to offer my services to translate the game into Latin American and European Spanish completely free of charge! I would love to have the opportunity, especially since players really need to understand the text to play without having to look up guides online. (By the way, sorry if this sounds like a scam or something similar. Offering it “free of charge” is simply because I prefer helping indie games get translated out of pure passion and love for indies).
Thank you so much for such amazing feedback! Comparing Back of Beyond to Cult of the Lamb and Card Wars is high praise, and we're so glad you enjoyed figuring out the gameplay and strategy. And we're really happy to hear that Lucy is your favorite!
Your feedback on the graphics settings is also super helpful and practical. we’ll definitely look into adding those settings.
Regarding localization, because of our limited indie resources, we can only support the current four languages for now. But we'd really love to expand this in the future, and our plan is to open up community translations through Steam Workshop down the line!
And thank you so much for offering to translate the game into both Latin American and European Spanish! We really appreciate the offer, and don't worry—we definitely didn't take it as a scam. 😂 We know there are many passionate indie supporters out there who genuinely want to help.
Thanks again for playing Back of Beyond, sharing such detailed feedback, and supporting our little cult! ❤️
Very fun to play, needs a option to speed up animations though.
edit: Played some more. The Corrupted Jar relic feels a bit weak on start and is only worthwhile when paired with the Shop(per cat nearby, gold+1), which can be hard to find depending on RNG, making it quite difficult to set up the synergy. It took quite a few tries to get a run going because I did not have enough gold/power to get past the 2nd circle, it would probably be better to have the Shop as the starting building when selecting this relic.
I'm really liking the bones of this, the combination of designing your board then piloting the deck is fun. As a deckbuilder though it just feels really random and impenetrable right now. Maybe I just need to git gud but you don't know what's coming up on the calendar so you can't plan, when events affect cards it's random so you can't plan around that, plus the events are random and it's random if you'll even get an event at all.
Since you can't see your starting building you can't plan around that with relic choice, it's pretty common to choose starting relics that are anti-synergistic with the starting building so you already start off on an unlucky foot that you can't do anything about.
I like the culty esoteric vibe of the event flavor, but even after quite a few runs it's impossible to remember what every event actually does for me so even when I'm re-encountering something I've seen it still feels like a crapshoot. It's tough cause just saying what the events do would diminish the vibe, but it's also frustrating to just be guessing and hoping.
All that said there's a lot good here and I'm excited to see where this goes!
Thanks for playing! You're right that the game flow needs more polish - we'll be working on it before launch. Really useful feedback, and I'm glad the vibe is landing!
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Wonderful game! I've really enjoyed playing it especially while listening to music.for me it feels like the difficulty really goes up at the 3rd boss.
I love it! I’ve been playing it for a good while because it gives me major Cult of the Lamb vibes, as well as Card Wars (the Cartoon Network card game).
I absolutely love it! I’m really curious and intrigued about what future updates will bring to this project. I’m sure you will do excellent with everything you have to offer! ⭐⭐⭐🌟
By the way, I noticed you support several languages (English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese). It would be amazing to have Spanish as well! In fact, I’d love to offer my services to translate the game into Latin American and European Spanish completely free of charge! I would love to have the opportunity, especially since players really need to understand the text to play without having to look up guides online. (By the way, sorry if this sounds like a scam or something similar. Offering it “free of charge” is simply because I prefer helping indie games get translated out of pure passion and love for indies).
Thank you so much for such amazing feedback! Comparing Back of Beyond to Cult of the Lamb and Card Wars is high praise, and we're so glad you enjoyed figuring out the gameplay and strategy. And we're really happy to hear that Lucy is your favorite!
Your feedback on the graphics settings is also super helpful and practical. we’ll definitely look into adding those settings.
Regarding localization, because of our limited indie resources, we can only support the current four languages for now. But we'd really love to expand this in the future, and our plan is to open up community translations through Steam Workshop down the line!
And thank you so much for offering to translate the game into both Latin American and European Spanish! We really appreciate the offer, and don't worry—we definitely didn't take it as a scam. 😂 We know there are many passionate indie supporters out there who genuinely want to help.
Thanks again for playing Back of Beyond, sharing such detailed feedback, and supporting our little cult! ❤️
I started seeing this weird bug and can't play anymore :'(
Thanks for the report, I just fix it, please give it another try!
Awesome, I lost all my progress but it's working, guess I get a chance to lock in and see if I actually got better at the game!
very fun i like the dog synergy
Thanks! I'm glad you like it, and glad they landed.
Very fun to play, needs a option to speed up animations though.
edit: Played some more. The Corrupted Jar relic feels a bit weak on start and is only worthwhile when paired with the Shop(per cat nearby, gold+1), which can be hard to find depending on RNG, making it quite difficult to set up the synergy. It took quite a few tries to get a run going because I did not have enough gold/power to get past the 2nd circle, it would probably be better to have the Shop as the starting building when selecting this relic.
Thanks for playing! I'll flag the speed-up option with the team, and pass your notes on the randomness to our designer.
I'm really liking the bones of this, the combination of designing your board then piloting the deck is fun. As a deckbuilder though it just feels really random and impenetrable right now. Maybe I just need to git gud but you don't know what's coming up on the calendar so you can't plan, when events affect cards it's random so you can't plan around that, plus the events are random and it's random if you'll even get an event at all.
Since you can't see your starting building you can't plan around that with relic choice, it's pretty common to choose starting relics that are anti-synergistic with the starting building so you already start off on an unlucky foot that you can't do anything about.
I like the culty esoteric vibe of the event flavor, but even after quite a few runs it's impossible to remember what every event actually does for me so even when I'm re-encountering something I've seen it still feels like a crapshoot. It's tough cause just saying what the events do would diminish the vibe, but it's also frustrating to just be guessing and hoping.
All that said there's a lot good here and I'm excited to see where this goes!
Thanks for playing! You're right that the game flow needs more polish - we'll be working on it before launch. Really useful feedback, and I'm glad the vibe is landing!
Some gameplay, a hint of critique ;)
Thank you for making this video! Also thanks for the feedback.
I think Bookstore is bugged, I had it different times and it doesn't work
The Yin-Yang Disc is strong ;) I'll need to win another run without it. The game is fun, thanks for sharing the demo and keep up the good work!
I mean Only if you play with a hyper optimized deck, if your deck falls appart without replacements it's more a burden.
Also depends when you get it too.
If you get it early it will be more game altering then getting it later.
Thank you, I'm glad you like it!We're glad to have the chance to share our game here.
Interesting, Needs a endless mode and a more consistent way to remove followers.
Also Bug note exiting and continuing deletes all your relic permanent effects.
Thank you for the report. I will check it out and fix it.