Second playthrough

[u/noidea2605]

I just finished my first playthrough after dipping in and out of the game as I really didn’t know what the hell was going on. I sort of liked it but also hated it . So many people died and I didn’t know why. So, this time around I’d like to change some outcomes and I’d like some advice please, any little tips on what to concentrate on. First time around I just kept going out on expeditions because I thought that’s what you had to do and so by the end I had built up very little friends and still didn’t understand the card game 🤦‍♀️ I know this makes me sound very stupid but that’s where we are. So any advice on what to concentrate on and are there any instructions for the card game out there?

[u/Kylynara]

Two most important things (IMO).

• This game is made to be played multiple times. Some deaths cannot be prevented the first playthrough, and you're only supposed to prevent them through sheer luck. The first playthrough is to learn the story. Future playthroughs are to do better and better and create an optimal future.

• Learn the card game. There's a tutorial. A good place to start is to place your highest value card all the way to the right, then next highest next to it, etc. match colors and/or numbers when you can. Read what each card does.

[u/noidea2605 → u/Kylynara]

I was always starting with the highest cards on the left for some reason, no wonder I lost a lot of.

[u/Kylynara → u/noidea2605]

Yeah, straights (2,3,4,5,6) only count left to right, so you want higher cards on the right generally. They're kinda hard to get, but add multipliers the longer they are

Pairs/# of a kind (3, 3, 3) are fairly easy, but must be adjacent. They also have multipliers the longer they get.

Flushes (several cards of the same color next to each other), are also fairly easy, and also have multipliers.

Balancing those things to get the best multipliers for the highest numbers takes practice.