Reply All is a single player, roguelike-deckbuilder that takes the concept of working in an office, sending emails that can be seen as passive aggressive. It’s an interesting storyline, as you become in charge of a bunch of emails from customers and from other people within your office!
Each of these card-based battles has you using up to three cards per email. These cards can add a defence to your health and attacks to your enemy. The cards have different tones to them – from things like being polite to being aggressive. You can read the email that you are replying to, but your replies actually don’t make much sense at all.
This was what my big negative was for Reply All. I do wish these emails actually made sense in some way to what you are saying. Sometimes, adding in new cards made your emails make absolutely no sense what so ever. It’s not even passive aggressive, it’s just strange. There is a little dial that says how aggressive or neutral you are going, as you do not want to properly anger anyone, but otherwise it’s trying to get your job done without getting in trouble at work.
You do not gain health between tasks, so you are often at a disadvantage, but you can choose carefully what emails you want to reply to. Some of the people who email you are much easier to use than others! You can also get various new cards when you successfully finish an email conversation, which can help with the next one!
For me, the concept of Reply All was much more interesting than what had been showcased at Gamescom, but as the game isn’t coming out for a year, I am hoping some great improvements to the text and story is made.
You can currently wishlist Reply All on Steam.