

Card Dungeon
Playtap Games · 2015 · RPG, Indie, Strategy, Card Game
PC
Mixed50% · 42
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About Card Dungeon
Returning home from your voyages you find your homelands have been invaded by the unholy inhabitants of the Nethermist and has setup camp in crypts and dungeons all across the lands. Wander through the lands and bring down the vengeance of your Lords unto the unclean monsters in a turn based rogue-like set in a gorgeous board game setting.
Strategy and planning is more important than quick reflexes in this turn based game. With permanent death there are no shortcuts to reaching Northvale. Strategy, planning and a pinch of luck will get you far. And when all is lost, start over and see if you can reach the point where you died last so you can recover that sweet, sweet loot you had gained on your previous run through.
There are so many cards to find. So many. There are skill cards which you use to interact with the world, attack monsters, disable traps, and more. There are also trait cards which define your character. There’s cards that equip your character with armor, weapons and magical items. All of these interact with each other in different ways so planning and strategy are your best friends.
Card Dungeon is a board game in digital format. If you play board games you’ll feel right at home with Card Dungeon. Explore the numerous dungeons, slay the monsters, collect the loot.
Each time you play Card Dungeon completely random levels are generated with new treasures and layouts. All enemies are hand placed in the dungeons so each time you play through a level, you know what type of enemy you will encounter to better prepare you to hand out the beat downs.
These unlockables will influence your play style. Play as an extra strong fighter OR a forgetful illusionist OR a sword wielding melee fighter OR a teleporting fire starter OR many other different combinations within one play-through! The game will always feel fresh and new as you discover new combinations of cards, magical items and your character traits.
Card Dungeon Features
- Turn based gameplay rich with choices and opportunities to screw up and die.
- Face hard choices about which of the 1000’s of cards you find you will want to keep and which to discard. Don't get too attached to any of the cards as they deteriorate with use and will need to be replaced! Save the soul of the lands and crush the hordes of the Nethermist!
- Fight 40+ enemies each with their own unique skill cards that they will use to end your short life. Learn their strategies through multiple play-throughs and learn to be one step ahead of the creatures rising from the Nethermists!
- Pick up and equip 100's of inventory item cards such as the necromantic Whisper Blade and the Iron gauntlets. Match your equipment to your skills and discover how to bring extra pain to your enemies. Discover and unlock new character traits to change Crusader's innate skills.
- When Crusader falls, try to reach the same level again to retrieve all gold and items you lost. If you perish on your way there a new marker will be set and previous loot will be erased and replaced with what your carried on this playthrough.
- Card Dungeon saves automatically after every turn, so you can always turn off the game and get back to exactly where you started when real life calls.
- Cloud saves allow you to take your unlocked trait cards and gems with you to any computer you play on.
- Original soundtrack by Ian Dorsch.
It's a turn based rogue-like!
Strategy and planning is more important than quick reflexes in this turn based game. With permanent death there are no shortcuts to reaching Northvale. Strategy, planning and a pinch of luck will get you far. And when all is lost, start over and see if you can reach the point where you died last so you can recover that sweet, sweet loot you had gained on your previous run through.
It's a card game!
There are so many cards to find. So many. There are skill cards which you use to interact with the world, attack monsters, disable traps, and more. There are also trait cards which define your character. There’s cards that equip your character with armor, weapons and magical items. All of these interact with each other in different ways so planning and strategy are your best friends.
It's a board game!
Card Dungeon is a board game in digital format. If you play board games you’ll feel right at home with Card Dungeon. Explore the numerous dungeons, slay the monsters, collect the loot.
Randomly Generated Levels!
Each time you play Card Dungeon completely random levels are generated with new treasures and layouts. All enemies are hand placed in the dungeons so each time you play through a level, you know what type of enemy you will encounter to better prepare you to hand out the beat downs.
Character Traits!
These unlockables will influence your play style. Play as an extra strong fighter OR a forgetful illusionist OR a sword wielding melee fighter OR a teleporting fire starter OR many other different combinations within one play-through! The game will always feel fresh and new as you discover new combinations of cards, magical items and your character traits.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
No default attack, and bad drops, 3 card limit, cards randomly get destroyed, means you often end up with no attack and nothing you can do but quit the game. Pity, could have been good.4 found this helpful
card dungeon an intresting concept its entertaining but also really slow as do a dungeon crawl but with card abilites that can ware out the more you use them personally 5/10 overall1 found this helpful
TL;DR: Refunded. Core of a good game, but practically plagiarized. Half-assed quality wastes any potential. A blatant copy of Card Hunter. It was obvious the second I saw the game's logo, not even the graphics. But the game's visual style is clearly lifted, as well as several interface elements. The game's rules and the way they are presented in the UI are very similar. That's not a crime, but it makes it impossible not to compare the two mentally. And in that light, this is simply a pared-down and much lower quality version of CH. Of course the dev will deny it, why would they invite legal liability? - This is a minimalistic classical roguelike. It is not a card game. There are cards, but you don't shuffle or discard or draw them, or do anything cardlike, so... they're not cards. They're just slotted powers. They also deplete, but there doesn't seem to be any way to find out how many uses you have left. Doesn't sound like a fun mechanic, so I'm not exactly excited at the prospect of a power disappearing mid-combat without having any clue when it's going to happen. - Enemy AI is nonexistent. Cast the incredibly overpowered spell that turns a 3x3 grid into lava, then run around a…
This game has gotten harder since I last played 10 years ago. I know. You'd think it's a "skill issue". But I can't even get out of the tutorial! Webbed by a spider and bleeding from a dire fox killed me. And only having 3 cards to use, which the cards deteoriate after X amount of uses to. No way to attack without a card. I enjoy tactical game. I enjoy puzzles. What I don't enjoy is feeling I have no way of a chance to win.
Doesn't work on Windows 11, despite Compatibility Mode attempts. Sad, wanted to revisit it recently and discovered that nasty fact.
I want to like this game so badly. It checks every box for me from dnd style to roguelike, but I cant bring myself to do more then 2 or 3 floors at a time. If your character had a basic attack for one dmg that didnt deteriorate it would fix so many problems with the pacing and progression but as it stands all you get is 3 cards which can be anything from attacks to support to defense and if you have one of each you can easily run out of attacks on a mini boss with 20 hp who summons minions with another 5 each. I hope that Im just wrong and at floor 2-1 you get a basic attack and Ive just never made it that far but as it stands I cannot suggest this game to any player of any sort of game.
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