Burn With Me tasks you with playing your sacrificial creature cards to carry out the steps of eerie occult rituals.
Despite this game saying it’s a deckbuilder, I feel that it’s actually more of a strategy game as you aren’t actually creating a deck that you can tweak and instead are playing around with a deck that builds each round, requiring you make smart playing decisions before you reach a boss that you need to overcome.
I do not often get pulled in by a story when there are deck building aspects to the game, but something about this tale caught my attention. The game is about a passionate teacher who started spouting off about ancient, forbidden rituals, instructing the whole class about the sacrifices involved in them. You then get to start playing cards to carry out that ritual, burning the your cards to score enough points to overflow a vial which then leaks into your heart.
In each round, you get to choose one of three cards to sacrifce for, gaining them for the next round. Many of these cards have abilities that boost themselves or cards around them – some need to be played with no cards near them, some need odd numbers on either side, and others will grant points but then destroy themselves for the rest of the game.
It’s quite satisfying laying them all out and burning them. I also enjoy all of the little moody details like the interactive story elements and the way the strange on-screen hand moves as it guides the cards. There is something that just feels good about Burn With Me – something about the way the story is told, the vibes of the color of each of the screens, and the various characters on the cards themselves. It feels interesting and full of wonder as you dive deeper into what exactly this teacher has seen and is trying to explain.
Burn With Me is currently in development, but in the meantime, you can add it to your Steam Wishlist.
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