It's practically necessary to make a good deck, so it should be guaranteed that you get at least one during a run. I even chose the "get 5 additional beneficial things next floor" and didn't get a single chance to remove cards.

Steam tells me I've played this game for 1317 hours. Okay, some of that was leaving the screen up idle, but still... I've played all the classes, unlocked all the badges, and beaten every thing worth beating, including the Lord of the Dream in five different ways. So I think it's time to take a break from DQ, despite it being such an excellent game.

What are some other games like Dream Quest to try? Key characteristics:
* deck-building without buying cards in DLC or other "freemium" perks to have a better game.
* substance over style
* simple to play
* strategic thinking pays off (if mechanics are too complex or unpredictable, a deck-building game becomes a big dumb Luckfest)

Trying to learn this game but lost with how to play my cards. Do I just play all of them at once every time?

I’ve been playing for a while now and I’m trying to beat the lotd with a poison deck, monk would be perfect for it but I don’t know if I can find any good poison cards with him

I just finished killing off Lord of the Dream. It was super-hard but fun. Screenshot of the deck I beat him with. I also wrote a strategy guide for it on the Dream Quest wiki.

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SPOILER: a winning deck

I have an ipad. I do the sync thing, select upload, my profile, then hit upload again then....

Any time I go on another iOS device sync'd to the same iCloud and try to download a profile there's nothing there.

What do?

I've asked before and I'll ask again, but I love dreamquest with all my heart and would love to be able to tweak it and learn from it. Any chance we can get the source code posted somewhere public for it?

New player here. It looks like there are a ton of cards that need to be unlocked and I'm hoping you guys might be able to give me direction as to which ones I should try to unlock first. If there's a general card tier list out there somewhere, that'd be helpful too. Thanks!

I completed the game on medium difficulty with 7 classes now... I'm stuck on Priest because it is a garbage class.

Oracle should be on a 2 turn cooldown but weaken enemies uncovered for the first turn. It has very little use outside of the final floor when trying to avoid impossible monsters.

Why is the 10 damage fireball on 3 turn CD and NOT piercing? Change it to a 2 turn CD 8 damage + 8 healing/shield ability

I had a double Hourglass deck with Protean so I was drawing my entire deck every other turn. It had very little mana but had Conduit so I just cast everything for free.

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i love this game but if i get two more invisible encounters in a row on the 3rd floor i'm punching through my monitor

I want to try and mod the Steam release to change cards I never use and replace them with more fun ones, anyone have any idea how I could do this?

It only ever gives me a Curse no matter what I give him...

$9.99 for an identical game, but nice to not have to drain my phones battery.

Had to post on my first victory against the LoD!

Anybody know how to get our hands on the source code? I've played this game more than is humanly healthy, and I'd love to make some minor tweaks for me and my friends' own enjoyment. Anybody have any notions of how to go about getting it?

Just beat the game with a Samuri on the highest difficulty so I thought I should record my findings.

The Samuri is an odd class due to his ability to heal after each fight. Normally, you'd want to be well rounded and have some defensive/shielding/healing abilities, but the Samurai does fairly well just bursting everything down, and going back to full hp afterward. His low cooldown piercing damaging ability also really helps with enemies who would otherwise be able to keep themselves alive. Because of the nature of this fighting style, I never really felt like my character was very strong, but he did more damage to the final-final boss than any others so there is something to be said for being a glass cannon.

It's important to try and fight enemies in ascending level so you get hp refills from most fights. I also have taken to completely avoiding Hands of Justice (or whatever they are called) that make you attack yourself, and Clones who often are more dangerous than you are due to them starting with about 10 mp.

My main priorities on the Samurai are:

• Obtaining useful attack cards, like more Sorcerous Strikes, Holy Strikes, anything that draws more cards like Rallying Strike and big damage strikes like Smash and Piercing Strike.
• Cleansing all of the useless lvl 1 Strikes from my deck
• High impact spells, but not too many. I'll have enough mana from the Sorceress Strikes, and any unused mana can be used for his piercing ability, but running out of mana really slows things down.

Early on, I find that leveling up my Sorceress Strikes makes the first floor a breeze, and I'll often forego extra cleanses or things which will set me up nicely for the late game in favor of leveling those two cards up. I've also found extra hp to be critical for this build, and there were several fights where I was under 5 hp at the end, so hp as a starting talent seems to be most optimal. For other talents, I'll usually get an equipment slot if I have some nice equipment, copy a card if I have for example a lvl 3 Holy Strike and gold when nothing else looks good. On the final floor I did Purity because I still had several bad Strikes to clease, and Elemental Resistance with my final level up, which makes a big difference on most bosses except maybe the Kraken.

You may have noticed that the buildings which allow you to purchase hp/mana offer better deals in the later floors. I've started always taking free hp, but not spending any gold until at least the 2nd and often the 3rd floor in order to get the most hp for my money. Also, many useful spells cost 3-4 mp to cast, but you start with just 2. It may be worth it to purchase 2 extra point of mp so you can cast your spell if you draw it before you get to your first Sorceress Strike. Unlike hp, where you can use as much as you can get, you never really need more than 4 starting mp so you don't have to worry as much about raising the price on purchasing it.

I just beat the game with a Monk on Velociraptor difficulty, and thought I'd share my experiences, and maybe get more discussion into this barren forum.

The Monk's cleanse ability is great, and it means by late game you should be able to have only the cards you want in your deck. That means picking cards with enough synergy together can give you a very consistent and powerful deck.

The downside tends to be that the Monk is such a generalist, and the cards offered to him in stores are not always the most impressive. Still you can get good results by aiming for cards which replace themselves and just a couple large damaging cards.

On my latest win, my deck consisted of several Jab type cards, actions which draw a card and replace their action cost, and one bleed effect which probably made little difference in the long run. Most of my damage was done on the spell side, where I had one Frost Bolt, one Blizzard and one Freeze. I also had two Hastes to refill my hand and provide the occasional extra turn, and one Mahmut for utility since I had a very low 51 max hp by the end. The remaining cards were mana generators, and all ones which drew cards except for the ones which lowered spell costs for the turn, and double cast the following spell.

I also had one Protean for extra card draw (this card is really good and is cheap in stores) and one Exhaustion which only allows your opponent to play 3 cards before their turn ends, which in the end game just about cuts the damage you take in half.

With this deck I was able to go through the whole deck each turn, and if my mana would allow and if I drew things in a good enough order I could double-cast my big frost spells on an already frozen opponent.

Early on, the largest challenge with Monks is dealing enough damage. I like to cleanse their one starting mana card and wait till I have another source of mana to pick up spells, or until I have a high enough base mana to cast the spell once or twice at least. I've tried the other way with builds that have a lot of survivability but eventually ran into regenerating monsters and they would get the upper hand on me once they enraged. Also, don't be afraid to cut the heal spell from the deck as you'll retain more hp by killing things quickly overall.

For talents, I don't know the clear best, but I've been taking HP in the beginning, gold upon entering the 2nd level, cruelty at the beginning of the 3rd level (perhaps the least useful, revive may be better) and 1/2 elemental damage upon hitting level 10.

Leveling up from talents is a trap because you'll get to level 10 either way, and then you'll be down a talent. Half damage from elements I'm starting to believe is the best for any character, but this decision may change depending on who the 3rd level boss is. Knowing where all monsters are for your first talent will save you from surprise attacks, but I've stopped getting it in favor of just not exploring unknown territory with low hp. Still one bad secret encounter can end your game, so it's certainly there as insurance, but is not good if you're trying to build the most powerful character of all time.

On bosses, one consideration is that if you get the Kraken as the final boss, he has an innate exhaustion and so most card-draw builds will just fail. If you get lich, that should also mean that someone is offering the lich-kick card. Wait till just before the final fight to pick it up.

On the final-final boss that you only get on the hardest difficulty this build only did about 60 damage, but it really got picked apart by having to discard so many cards. I'm not yet sure how to do well there.

Finally, I just wanted to say that I'm having success with any class I play enough. Once you decide which cards are working for the class, it only takes a bit of luck to get a win. I played this game for a long time without a win, but the real trick was simply less class swapping between games and perhaps learning enough about the various types of monsters to know how to prepare for each, and which ones to avoid completely.

I really suck. I've been playing it obsessively, and I've only even got to the boss fight twice. Once I actually managed to kill the 3rd level phoenix. And then it came back to life. sad trombone. How do I get better at this game?

Hey -- so if you are like me, you were looking for some info about this game on reddit and was sad to see that none existed. This game is hard, I want someone to talk to about it!