Put some hours into Chaos Zero Nightmare & I’m hooked. With the regrettable death of Tribe Nine, CZN & Limbus Company remain as the only Gatcha Games that I’m earnestly invested in putting time into. Though I don’t think that there’s a major connection on the production side, CZN in both its Dark SciFi/Science Fantasy Anime elements and aesthetics as well as its deckbuilding gameplay remind me a lot of the truly excellent roguelike deckbuilder Chrono Ark. The game is snappy & the cosmic horror + space opera story has been genuinely intriguing so far.
My only real gripe at the moment is that the game didn’t take a cue from gatcha games like Limbus Company & Umamusume Pretty Derby and launch on Steam. Instead playing on PC and Steam Deck in turn requires using the STOVE client, one more launcher to juggle just to play a single game. Thankfully, the Moraroy Non-Steam Launcher tool has given me a route to install STOVE and ultimately CZN on my Steam Deck. The handheld experience in game is terrific and worth the hurdles gratefully.
As an aside, whenever I start up a new gatcha game I always feel out of step with the rest of the game’s fanbase/fan communities because I never do rerolls & take what I get from pulls. Some people have the patience for all the rerolling & banner stat calculation stuff but I never really have and despite my limited gatcha game experience, not getting top tier pulls has never been a major barrier to entry nor progression roadblock.
