There's something bugged with the guardian towers and attack speed boosts. They go super sayin tower mode and just destroy everything. I had to make a "no guardian towers" rule for myself to keep the game interesting while I finished hard badge.
If you are struggling to get past day 20 and earn the badges, here are the most important tricks: 1. Be a sheriff and hold down spacebar (kind of cheaty) 2. Get an NPC with a gravity gun as soon as possible (not at all cheaty, just OP)
You can easily go undefeated with just peasants, parting gifts, gold mines, crystal mines. Kinda makes all those shiney legendary cards feel a bit less shiney :(
This game was a great challenge to me and took a very deep level of strategy to win. I will give a few tips for the very hard levels so if you want to figure it out for yourself don't read . . . . . 1) Build solid corners to prevent splitter escapes deeper into your map 2) Build your maze with constant juggling in mind (meaning make a long path and a short path then block the short path) 3) Somewhere in the back lines set up sniper towers + a combination of damage and speed boosts - you should not use any ghost towers because they dont work 4) don't forget to juggle everything that isn't a ghost
There's a "FAQ" section on the elements site that will guide you to making a deck that can kill false gods without needing a lot of upgrades. Short version: rainbow deck with quantum pillars, 6 sundials, hourglasses, otyugh, boneyard, fallen elf, bone wall, aether shield, firefly queen, empathic bond. Just stay alive until you build up tons of creatures.
Challenge takes 20-30 minutes of solid typing with little variation. Word list is strange (some aren't even words) and the
method of recovering from stuns is particularly ill-conceived. 3/5 for attempting to be educational I guess.