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I am wondering if it is possible to win the game even if some bad choices are done.
So, talking about the Voracious Goddess, the curse I am very stacking into, I will make two example.





Please reply to those example only with "yes you can still win" or "no, you need to do the right decision to win", without spoiling me anything, please.

Those are just examples, but I would like to know if, in general, doing a bad action make the game impossible to win.

YES, you can still WIN !!!

There are few if any ways to softlock 7C such that a curse can't be completed. I don't think there's any way to render Goddess unbeatable, at least, not without accidentally breaking a rule. Specifically, if you forget to apply your banner when a card says you must, you can put VG in an unwinnable state. (Depending which redirect you missed -- some will render VG unwinnable forever, others you can fix by saving the game.)

That is what exactly I am scared of. I found lot of that I couldn't apply (as I didn't have the card under the S&J that I needed) and I was scared that I could have missed it by have done some bad choices who would have brought me to not have anymore the possibility to have the object that trigger the ability on some cards anymore.

But, as you said neither the choice neither the choice should make VG unbeatable.

Most of those are for different curses. Not really a spoiler -- there's 12 curses and most of them utilize at least one so, it's safe to say you only care about a few of them and won't be able to get access to the rest this run.

If a curse requires you to use on a card you can only see once, like the contents of a treasure chest, it will always be a on a clue card you had from the beginning of the run, and it will always say "you must" rather than "you may." There are plenty of banners that you get during the game rather than from your clue cards, but the cards you use them on are cards you can visit more than once. The idea is that you can find the place to use the banner, see that you need a banner, go get the banners, and then come back and use them. A good relatively spoiler-free example of this is

They avoid using banners you find in game on cards you only see once, at least on curse-required content, presumably because of exactly this soft lock issue. If there was a lock you could only touch once, and a key you might not find before seeing it, the game becomes unwinnable if you happen to find the lock before the key. There wouldn't even be a way to communicate to the player that they'd lost, short of printing "If there is a clue card called "The Voracious Goddess" in your satchel and journal, your adventure ends here" on the non-banner-redirected outcome of the lock. SP's solution was simple -- no locks you can only touch once, at least, none in front of curse required content.

There is some ways to loose a game. But when it happens, you are quite aware of it (as you are something like dead and it is written that your adventure ends here). If nothing told you that your adventure ends, you are still alive and you could win. You might need to rest (in the game), to replenish the card box of discarded ones (not the banished) but you are still well. :)