Steam Nextfest is back, and I am trying to get to every game demo that I want to pla,y and there are A LOT of demos that I want to play. First off, this week I have probably the most adorable decbuilder to ever have existed. Though adorableness does not mean it is fun, in this case, IT IS REALLY FUN.

This week is My Card is Better Than Your Card!

My Card is Better Than Your Card! (MCBTYC) is a deck builder roguelike from Utu Studios. The game is slated to release for the PC.

There’s a fun new card game on the playground, and you have to be the coolest kid. Put stickers on cards, defeat your opponents, take their lunch money, and buy more stickers.

It’s as simple as that.

I’m not typing out the whole title, so I’ll go with MCBTYC. MCBTYC is a turn-based roguelike deckbuilder where the player builds a deck and chooses one of two weeks to pursue, which involve shops, duels, playing in the park, and going home to craft another card for their deck.

Though the gameplay seems simple, it is actually deceiving. Draw three cards plus one, and on the player’s turn, choose whether you want another card or a candy, or the energy to play cards. The goal of the playground game is to play cards to get stars, get more stars than the other player, and win. After a whole turn order, the two players’ stars collide, and the winner splits the difference (5-4=1 and so on and so forth). Stars remain until negated by the opposing player. Get enough stars to push the bar over the top, and you win! Sort of like a more fun tug-of-war. All while some jams are being played in the background.

It would just be easy to play cards to get stars, but MCBTYC has mechanics that make it so that players can get wild amounts of stars in one turn. The final boss for the week had gotten 14 stars in one turn on my ass.

There is quite a good number of decks that can be played in the demo: The standard, no-nonsense deck, the bug deck, the vehicle deck, and the music deck, all of which have a mechanic that they focus on. The bug deck focuses on creating tokens to then consume them for big turns, the vehicle deck on discarding cards for value, the music deck to accumulate more notes for more stars.

Deckbuilders HAVE to have something to do to get more cards, or stickers for that matter, and MCBTYC puts a fun spin on it. Winning duels rewards you with coins, and you can spend coins at two stores. If you don’t feel like spending your cold, hard cash, then you can wait to play in the sandbox and collect 2-3 single stickers. At the end of the day, you receive a blank card to customize as you wish.

Add as many stickers as you want, but you better be able to play the card!

I was turned onto MCBTYC because of the art design, and I still think it is one of the cutest games ever to cross my computer desk. I love the animations when cards are played and stars shoot out from the child, and a WOW! erupts onto the screen. Every single thing in the game is super cute.

The MCBTYC demo currently has two weeks that the player can play, and this Nextfest is off to a great start as I am having an absolute blast playing this demo. It is simple at face value, but it requires just enough thinking to keep the player engaged, which I LOVE.