The Binding of Isaac is a hugely successful videogame, and thanks to two extremely lucrative crowdfunding efforts that netted around $8 million, you could argue that its a highly successful card game as well. The videogame fits almost too perfectly into begin turned into cardboard, with its roguelike genetics being suited to the randomness of dungeon crawler, variable bonuses and and player powers sitting well within the tabletop realm. There's around eighty thousand people who have some kind of variation of the tabletop game. So surely its extremely good because well funded games are always amazing, aren't they. I'm approaching this as someone who is away from the hype canoe sailing down the river rapids of marketing and excitement and so this is probably going to be dull in comparison. I'm also someone who is a fan of the game, and has spent many an hour running around randomly generated dungeons of blood and filth. For those unfamiliar with the videogame, you play
Huge shag pile carpets like miniature forests, sofas and chairs furnished in material that almost looks like one of those stereoscopic 3D images that if you stare long enough at it would turn into some kind of horrific fashion monster. Televisions with four channels and four buttons to select those channels with NO remote control. Your gran coming round to your house and smoking in the house while dishing out a packet of Opal Fruits, a Marathon and a packet of Beef Monster Munch for each of the kids. Men with non ironic moustaches and mutton chop sideburns and hair almost down to the shoulders. Surrounding it all, keeping it all together in the most wonderful over patterned way is That Old Wallpaper. Overview That Old Wallpaper is a competitive card selection game where you will try to win cards that will complement your existing tableau of wallpaper cards. You will try to create patterns that will ultimately score you points at the end of the game. It's designed to be played at