Nowhere Prophet Reviews

Nowhere Prophet is ranked in the 83rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
9 / 10
Jul 22, 2019

Nowhere Prophet is an excellent single player card battler that punish you with its difficulty. The battle system has a lot of depth to it, while you're constantly worrying about your convoy as events take their toll. Still, death simply means starting again with a freshly generated campaign and getting to see more of the game's world. Nowhere Prophet can be frustrating at times, but it's fun to play through and is highly recommended to those who like strategy or card battlers.

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9 / 10.0
Aug 2, 2020

A sublime blend of deck building and post-apocalyptic survival, Nowhere Prophet is tense, thoughtful, and incredibly satisfying.

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Wccftech
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Jul 19, 2019

Nowhere Prophet is a single player, deckbuilding roguelike that manages to balance each of its system to create interesting, engaging and unique stories. While it isn't without faults, its complexity and intrugiue make it something you'll keep coming back to.

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Jul 23, 2019

Nowhere Prophet is an exciting tactical card game, blending choice-based adventure elements with compelling strategy and some gorgeous design.

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8 / 10
Aug 17, 2020

Nowhere Prophet is a single-player procedurally generated card battler with a brutal learning curve with critical decision making.

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8 / 10.0
Aug 4, 2020

Nowhere Prophet combines a well-structured card battler with an intense story and a gorgeous art style to create a deck-building roguelike with genuine depth.

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9.5 / 10.0
Jul 19, 2019

Nowhere Prophet is a unique and thoughtful single-player deckbuilding card game set in a fascinating Indofuturistic world. It features compelling convoy management with hints of The Oregon Trail, and a highly innovative 'living card' mechanic.

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7 / 10.0
Sep 16, 2019

Nowhere Prophet is, I feel, a few tweaks and content expansions away from being a truly great roguelite deckbuilder. It has some great presentation, an interesting setting and lore, and fun tactical card-based battles, but stumbles when it comes to difficulty scaling, viable deck build diversity, and random encounter variety.

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Harvard L.
Top Critic
Aug 4, 2020

If there’s anything to be learned from Nowhere Prophet, it’s that a successful rogue-lite is like intricately designed lightning in a bottle, and no amount of mechanics which look good on paper can recreate a truly well-planned experience.

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8 / 10.0
Jul 27, 2020

Until you learn how to play it smartly and efficiently - which could take a lot of trial and error - you will see a lot of death. It's unforgiving and terse, but in that challenge lies a deep and layered roguelike card game. Not everyone is going to make it out of the wasteland alive, but a few of us will guide our Space Moses character to victory.

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GameSpew
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Jul 19, 2019

As a lover of strategy card games, I was extremely pleased by Nowhere Prophet and am excited to go back to it again.

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Aug 8, 2020

Surviving Nowhere Prophet's grueling world offers laidback gameplay but that is unfortunately undercut with some frustrating moments.

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8 / 10.0
Jul 30, 2020

In the last generation I’ve been surprised to see the deck-building strategy genre not only move from the fringes into the mainstream on the back of titles like Slay the Spire or the more casual SteamWorld Quest, but also continue to find ways to crank up their associated degree of challenge...

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7.5 / 10.0
Aug 12, 2020

Nowhere Prophet is a large project by a small team that resulted in a different, innovative, intriguing and well-done job. There is no glaring flaw in what the game proposes, but there are undoubtedly points that could be better polished. Additionally, the genre itself, the large amount of text to read and rules to learn, the severe difficulty and the high learning curve make the game a niche game that will go unnoticed by many people. Fans of different card games and / or roguelikes, however, may like it a lot.

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8.5 / 10.0
Aug 10, 2020

GREAT - Nowhere Prophet brings deck building and a unique turn-based combat system into the roguelike genre complete with slick visuals, and accessible controls that add to the straightforward game mechanics. There’s a ton of strategy to be had with each run, and the risk/reward elements tied into the narrative driven choose-your-own-adventure choices make for an incredibly engaging experience with every start of a new game.

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8.5 / 10.0
Aug 20, 2019

Nowhere Prophet is well worth it, as it provides high replayability and does not disappoint in card gameplay.

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9 / 10
Jul 18, 2019

Nowhere Prophet is a stylish, slickly designed deck building adventure that’s one of the best in class. Combining narrative ties to the cards/Followers you collect has the surprising side effect (or maybe, desired effect?) to make you actually care about those brave enough to join you on this death road across a desert world where as they’d just be a culmination of numbers to use then discard in other games of this ilk.

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