A grim RPG with card-based combat where nothing stays dead. Lead a party of survivors through a world undone by shattered Laws. Restore them and reshape the rules of the game, but be ready to face the consequences.
Each input wears a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The color is the direction: green raises the score, red lowers it, grey sits neutral. ▼ marks a dock, ? a missing input. The exact weights stay secret. These are the inputs and the direction each pushes.
A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
I'm enjoying it a lot, but I think the revive mechanic is way too unforgiving. Taking 6 health each player if someone dies is a bit insane. Or at the very least, allow shields to carry over from fight to fight. Outside of that, I'm loving this. Feels like Thronebreaker mixed with Darkest Dungeon. The decision to make it a story driven game over a roguelite game was a top tier choice.
I feel bad writing such a negative review, because there's a great game here, potentially, but this was not ready for release in this state. The art is beautiful and the sound is sometimes great -- otherwise It's a technical and mechanical mess, and some of the changes have made it worse since the demo. Not the absolute worst translation I've seen in a while, but certainly on the worse side -- frequently written in...
Amazing atmosphere, I got pulled into the world just seconds after starting playing Combat is very fun to play, the skill tree seems daunting at first but it eases you into it enough. The game has lots of choices in dialogue and the way the combat system feels different enough from a lot of other card games of the same type to bring a really interesting dynamic and the boss animations and mechanics make you have to...
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Worth it · RPG · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableBUY IT.
Yes, worth it at $9.99.
about 9.4h$9.99 (~)
Better value than 96% of RPG games
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The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in July 2026. In 9 days of price history it has never once been discounted.
Steam's global achievement data says about 11 percent of players ever finish it. On a 9.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.
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