Soulkeep Finally Arrived!

Soulkeep is finally arrived! Its a spinoff Tower Defense game with collectible tower cards just similar to the Splinterlangs game itself. If you ever play the popular tower defense game, Kingdom Rush; you will get to the bottom of it. There are Towers, Spells, and Heroes to be used to hold the line. Uniquely while most tower defense run in a real time mode, Soulkeep doesn't run the same. Just like any Splinterlands, everything is determined automatically. In between each enemies waves, you get yourself time to build and deploy those assets. And once the waves is run, the result is already calculated. On one side the mechanics does simplified the gameplay, but on the other its less interactive.

There are some availble towers type, coming from Common to Legendary ones, from Regular to Gold ones. Each assets have bcx values similar to the cards assets itself. Combining them allow the assets to step up in level. Currently I only saw the growth in term of the Physical Damage only. This status table is too simplified and we might see more development in the future.

Rising up in the league will require filling up certain amount of souls from eliminating enemies, which are split into Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary.

So how's the gameplay itself? I found several bug with the game. From the wave lagging to start and the items stuck from being placed into the game arena. I need to refresh the game several times just to get the battle running back on track. Second, the lack of real time mechanics, means there's less randomity and timing tactics in the battle. If you find that single effective placement for any waves, it will be reusable over and over again, leaving less replayability on the gameplay. And third its the Tower Defense game itself. I think its a bit too late to introduced this game, when the game industry itself already flooed with various indie tower defense games. It will be an intresting game 5 to 10 years ago, but currently its just another Tower Defense game. And even so, I don't find something more innovatives on this one.

CONCLUSION

I'm totally unsure if I'm going to involve in Soulkeep at this time. Conflict is still running and I need to keep up with the increasing guaranteed threshold. The market has been tanking continously, and its difficult to reinvest the rewards on assets. Land value is flopping very much, and I already quit stacking on Land for some times, since its much better to use my cards on battle instead.