Little Kitty, Big City
Little Kitty, Big City
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WARCANA
Developer 1000 Orks
WARCANA is a fantasy inspired base defence, RTS game with a deck-building mechanic. Face hundreds of thousands of unrelenting monsters in a battle royale between 30 other mighty magicians. Build your deck. Prepare your defences. Summon your armies. Survive the onslaught. Be the last one standing. From the Steam store page
189 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
57
Mixed
104 positive · 79 negative
95% range 50–64%
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| Steam reviews | 104 | 79 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
6 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
319 of 509 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 189 · most liked firstBizarrely, there is no skirmish mode. You must either fill a multiplayer lobby with actual people, or replay campaign maps. This is such a cool game, but it is really handicapped by this egregious oversight.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't typically write reviews, it's never really been my thing. For this game, however, I felt like I need to do so. There are not many people playing currently and the reviews so far haven't been the best. I honestly believe that is due to people not understanding the game. It is not an RTS, it is not a deck building game. It IS tower defense game with RTS and deck building elements. It takes a little time and playing to understand how things work. Once you figure it out, it is immensely…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game had such potential ruined by Dev's who couldn't even implement a rotate function. Designed maps to be "hard" around the fact none of your towers could hit certain areas of the map where enemies spawned and called it good design. Game is abandoned and instead of releasing any notes or saying they're no longer working on it they quietly updated the FAQ on their studio website saying it'll get no updates unless they volunteer their time. If their next game is anything like this their studio…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned before it could really be what it was supposed to be. Very sad, I was really looking forward to this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →abandoned within weeks of release
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all, Day 1 DLC. Prolly don't need to elaborate. The game underneath isn't worth playing either way. Its one of those games that pretends to be a lot more complicated and involving while the underlying mechanics are actually cheap and simple. The only real "strategic" choice you make on the offense is checking whether the opponent focused walls or turrets and then build whatever unit deals more damage to that. On the defense theres a bit more going on with cards leading to other…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't even play the game, and the developers have abandoned the game. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried to convince myself to try it again after the balance patches but just can't do it. This game has difference pieces from assorted genre, but all of them fall short when they got mixed together. It has towers and defense, but as a tower defense it is lousy. The solo campaign is more of a single answer puzzle, solo horde sounded like what I was looking for but it is bland, and in PvP regular mode the answer is to use spells to bypass or remove all towers (more on this later). Hordes…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly it appears this game has been abandoned. I liked it but then I saw it WASN'T early access, but there's a lot of QoL missed and multiplayer is pretty much dead. Shame as it had a lot of potential.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →sadly seems abandoned. Would play the heck out of it if they fixed some bugs and a bit of balance.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The campaign is only gimmicky encounters. PvP is completely dead. There is almost no way to actually play the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't enjoy this game. With that said I don't think its bad. In this age of mobile deckbuilders and autobattlers its right up with that right appeal. The sight of massive armies of the thousands charging you is neat, but I felt like I wasn't doing anything. Hell, the last match was over 30 minutes long. I just don't feel like this game is a good use of my time, but its got the pvp, and the deckbuilding, and cards that the kids are all the rage for. It just doesn't feel like its made for me…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandonware, unfortunately. Game was very promising. Has a great idea. But I would avoid it at this point. Play 9 Kings. Similar idea, better execution.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned. No AI skirmish mode, really, like you'd expect if you're an RTS fan. Clunky and limited scenario maker for what IS there to make single player games. Basically, you have to design the enemy and the setup before fighting them, which leaves zero room for surprises or even an ai to work properly unless it's set up properly. Had potential, good art, pvp was fun to watch - but, dead now. Rip
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are towers with limited range, shoot in straight lines, and do not much damage, nor can you turn them. I played two decks with such towers and was not having fun. Horde mode doesn't make much sense with economy buildings and the timers are all off. Like units would spawn during build phases, or the fact that no units spawned during the first phase. Also, barracks cards seem practically useless in Horde mode unless you're using them as walls to tier up to more cards that might be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are only 5 cards per faction in a deck building game?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quickly abandoned after launch. PvP is dead. The campaign is short and quite boring. Had a lot of potential, guess it was a quick money grab.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →50% of this games problems are solved if turrets can shoot more than 10 squares heading out exclusively north east. Never seen anything like it in any tower defense game. It tries to be its own thing so hard it loses the fun of the genres, its overcooked.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THE GAME IS A CASH OUT DID NOT INPROVE FROM THE DEMO AT ALL DO NOT WAST YOUR MONEY
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this game, but the shape of buildings, the poor targeting and the inability to select a faction on single player missions is just boring. Some of the factions are far stronger than others and the controls are about 80% to where they should be. It feels like they just left it unfinished and sent it out. Tower attack hitboxes are also very odd. I paid 5 dollars for this and it was too much.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game had potential, but the developers abandoned it after 3 "patches" and a hotfix in the span of 2 months. Zero communication, avoid in the future.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to love this game. I play a lot of deckbuilders, tower defense and RTS games. The artwork is great, but the UI needs reworking. This game is really confusing. All the cards end up looking the same. You don't get an idea of what any card actually does. Spells are not impactful, because the scale of the map is so large. It would be much better if they allowed you to play custom decks in the campaign right from the beginning. That way you can narrow down the cards you want to learn,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really enjoy this one. Big battles of beautifully animated guys, fun deck building elements as well. The campaign is very challenging, starting you off with scenarios that involve pre-built decks and opening up to let you use your own after getting you familiar with the factions. That being said, I do have a few gripes. The tutorials are not the greatest at explaining everything, and seem to give incorrect information in some cases. Some missions are a little too gimmicky and last just a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This should be Early Access at best. Game design is so convoluted it is hard to say what you should be doing at what stage. I had one level where I played the same two cards every turn and somehow I won on turn 4. How? Tutorial is very bad at explaining game mechanics. Pixel art graphics while nice looking don't work well when zoomed out, which is almost always. I don't recomend, but if you don't believe me, look at the amount of hours people have in positive reviews.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really good concept & decent execution, but if you don't have a group ready to actively PvP against then its barely playable. Campaign is mostly scenario based and not that long, and there's no skirmish or AI modes. Your options are just PvP or replay the same few scenarios. You can make your own scenarios, but by the time you've finished making one you're already going to know its strengths and weaknesses. I had fun at the start, but it feels as if you're fully railroaded in each scenario,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mix between card game and simple tower defense. Two type of resources - mana to summon monsters and "structure" to build towers, walls and barracks that spawn new monsters. Basically two time phases - one is for building stuff and second is for withstanding your opponents attacks. You can drop some spells. Waves of monsters will come in your way and try to get to your base so be careful. Visually game looks outstanding - zoom in to see nice pixelated sprites, dozens of enemies and day night…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to like this game, I really do. I bought this game with the expectation it would be a RTS/Deckbuilder. The pixel graphics are great, the music is nice, the design of the builings and the units are absolutely beautiful. The support for custom maps right off the get-go is a great choice, even if I never enjoyed that aspect of the game. (but it's a great choice) And that's where the pros end for me. The game isn't really an RTS game as advertised, it's more of a Tower Defense +…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If I could just play the MP game against AI, so I can just chill and use custom decks, it would be fun, but you cant do that, so its not that fun. If you want to play through the campaign which is just scenarios using prebuilt decks, or you want to play against other people, go for it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even after playing 2h I still have no idea what I am doing in this game. I put things in random and there is no enough feedback from the game for me to know if I made any impact. The good: - Large scale assaults are fun to watch - I like the aesthetics The bad: - UI is terrible - even navigating starting menu is confusing - Spells have delayed activation and affect small areas - that is simply not fun - No option to change keybindings - I have a "weird" keyboard so defaults never work for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I haven't played the multiplayer, but if you're here only for the singleplayer experience, skip it. First, there's no VS. AI skirmish, only the campaign, and you can't customize your deck there. There *is* a horde mode where you can make your own deck, but not having an opponent to send waves against effectively removes half the game, as there's no reason to make any offensive troops. In fact, troops you send are sent against yourself, which is useful in the multiplayer version where you race…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished and enjoyed the campaign. It takes some time to master. Haven't really had the problems that negative reviewers had. Its a really good deep strategy game. Will take time to learn and not much online guides or wiki. Deck Building requires you to play spells that remove weaker starting cards from your deck if you dont you will lose. Its A bit like Dominion the table top game mixed with rts/tower defence. If you have the patience to learn then you will be rewarded in this game. 8.5/10…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to give a natural review. I like the game I like the visuals. Campaign is a bit slugish but I like it, could be worse. However I will leave a negative review because the game just came out for €17 and they already locked 2 factions behind DLC each costing €4.99 . You guys could have released the game with only one faction for €20. Then release each new faction for 4.99. That would have been 20 for base game and 30 for all the factions! Huge missed opportunity!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel very mixed about this review, so I'll give it my best shot: Negatives: - I find it sad that it feels like the support is dropped. No updates since very short after release - Community is dead, online games will not be easily possible and it was designed with multiplayer in mind Mixed: - It has a very difficult learning curve and it does not help you allot in figuring out what to do - Once you know how to navigate the battles by knowing how to deck grows and shrinks based on how…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It'd be really cool if this DIDNT get abandoned, I really looked forward to this title. DO NOT BUY (unless) you and your friends want something silly to do on weekends randomly or Mechabellum wasnt hitting it for you
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is what it sells. A mix of card game, tower defense, and economy builder. The inital deck building is pretty limited, because some card combos have negative syngeries - making them nearly unplayable together. The "second half of deck building" happens while you play the match. The "deck colors" (or races) also each have special rules, tending to favor a certain play styles. Like aggressive tempo, economy or all-in one turn combos. The main critique point of the game, and also of many…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Currently 7 hours played. I would recommend. Don't think of this like SC, AoE, or WC. This is Tower Defense/Horde Survival mixed with base building/deck building. It's like a RTS without micro. I can certainly see some room for improvement overall is enjoyable. My biggest gripe is that your discard gets shuffled back into your library at the beginning of every round. It makes it very hard to set up combos when you can't cycle your deck. I would prefer it would be like most board games that use…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Compared to the demo they messed up balancing towards the release ... unbelievable. PLUS even the singleplayer portion requires you to be always online ... dont know which Feedback they listned to ... but it seems it was the wrong one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →abandoned p much instantly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gorgeous RTS/Deckbuilder/TD hybrid. Graphics are absolutely phenomenal and the gameplay is fun enough, but doesn't actually feel all that strategic. There are decisions that should be strategic, like deciding whether to play economy, tech, or rush - but none of these decisions really seem to matter in the single player. Also there is some unit and tower variety (units that are fast, units that are good against walls or towers) but again it really doesn't feel like these differences matter.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Currently this game is in need of a lot more love than it currently has. Once you get past the UI and the initial learning curve, and understand that at it's core it's a tower defence game, if you're into that at all I'm sure you'd enjoy it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →spell spam the hq is really bad game needs balance passover
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →( Screenshots credits: - Ark VCS "version control for games" ark-vcs.com - WARCANA "fantasy inspired base defence, RTS game with a deck-building" store.steampowered.com/app/2022930/... - Skyrim Community Shaders github.com/doodlum/skyr... - Market Monkey Terminal marketmonkeyterminal.com )
unlabelledView post →WW1 horror game is Resident Evil meets Battlefield 1 and you can get it at 90% off. Humble's Team 17 Chains of Command bundle packs in 8 brilliant indie games, including Resident Evil-inspired WW1 survival horror Conscript, for as little as $20 Conscript isn't the only brilliant game in this bundle either, it's an eclectic mix of unique indie gems. Here's the full list: ``` Conscript Hell Let Loose Classified: France '44 Thymesia Warcana Narita Boy Honey, I Joined a Cult King of the Castle…
unlabelledView post →It has nothing to do with RTS. The armies never fight each other because you spawn units directly on the enemy base, and only build towers and walls to stop enemy army. So it's just a weird tower defense card game. I hate the audio it's seriously disgusting, to the point that I prefer when the game is muted, don't know how this passed QA. The game itself is really boring. The only good thing going for this game are the visuals. I would much prefer a ugly game that is fun. Placing towers is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game Like there are billions, but without performance issue. (I did not play any multiplayer match)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Damage spells can target and actually hurt your main building. In other words, because life steal is reserved to a single archetype, the UNBEATABLE strategy in this game is too build up just enough defenses to hold off the looser using units in the tower defense game. Ramp your mana, and click 4-6 times on your enemies hq. Rinse and repeat while praying someone doesn't do the same to you. Don't buy this game for the multiplayer vs, the horde mode is the closest to fun in pvp, and the campaign…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its a fun game but has a few qol annoyances. if its abandoned can i have it to fix it?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Written By Hidden Gems Review : https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38624426/, Follow me! Warcana is a Tower Defense Deckbuilding game. A Deckbuilder inspired by other tittles like they are billions or riftbreaker with original gameplay where you summon high ammount of units with cards. There is a good campaign with path for choose which for me isn't very dificulty ones. There is 1 design error about you can't rotate the towers but still is a good game with nice gameplay and a good…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is interesting and complex. Devs are responsive to balance issues so far. I like where it is going.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the current state of this game, even with the balance patch they just released, I can't recommend this game. To start with, the range overlay will straight up lie to you, it's like there's a disconnect between where units appear to be, and where they actually are, this is especially jarring when you're trying to use your manual attack spell to kill units, you can't accurately select where the attack lands, there's an inconvenient grid select mechanic where you won't know where the spell…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks quite nice, and has some decent fun in it, but absolutely needs a good deal more time in the oven. The most egregious thing I've seen so far, is that some scenarios are either nearly impossible, or they don't actually give you *any* of the info/training you need to beat them. I'm still early in the single-player, and multiple missions so far are totally wiping me every single time with absolutely nothing I can do about it. The game is either failing horribly at balance and scenario…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Needs balancing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty clunky and frankly poorly explained if beautifully animated tower defense game. Full focused on multiplayer. Don't by if you'r looking for single player.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to like this game, but it just has too many fatal flaws... Aside from the information problems mentioned by many others, I'm going to focus on the core gameplay loop towards the end of a multiplayer game. The stalemates you run into are strictly not fun, and it's pretty puzzling that there's not a natural push of units that increases round over round, to force the game to an end-state. I'm writing this review while last two on a game that has been at stalemate for 8 rounds at…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Total garbage. What's the point in having spells that can just kill my HQ ending the game? No point in building walls, towers, or summoning units.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has absolutely stunning visuals. Just watching massive armies in action is already entertaining. I bought it mainly because I love the art style — I really want to support the developers to keep going. If they release more DLCs, I’ll definitely buy them all. In my opinion, the price is already worth what I paid. Don’t forget to share development updates on social media from time to time. Right now, it feels like the game isn’t being actively developed, which could affect people who…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is absolutely fantastic – well-designed gameplay, great atmosphere, and tons of fun. Unfortunately, it's still far too unknown. It would be amazing if more people played it online, as the game would truly shine with an active community. The balancing isn’t perfect yet, but it’s nothing that takes away from the overall experience. A real hidden gem that deserves way more attention!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mainly played through the Campaign, and while the game definitely takes a bit of getting used to, I've greatly enjoyed the gameplay-loop, siege-battles with an insane amount of units, and the beautiful pixel graphics. I'm especially glad to see games like this being made in germany.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →不是哥们，我目前很喜欢这个游戏，但是我第二关我通过三次，第三关还是锁定的，我现在要抓狂了。谁能告诉我怎么个事？ I really enjoy this game right now, but I've passed the second level three times and the third level is still locked. I'm about to lose my mind. Can someone tell me what's going on? @1000 Orks
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun version of Deck building / Tower Defense type of game. Sadly the game player base took a nose dive, 24 peak of 63 players.. tried multiple times to play an online match and it timed out with error "not enough players". Which is a shame, they are actually starting to put balance changes that were badly needed but looks like game might be DOA, or maybe a steam sale could revive it in a few months.
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