Deck of Life: No Turns, Individual Card Permadeath

Deck of Life: No Turns, Individual Card Permadeath

Home Fire Games · July 4, 2023 · Indie, Card Battler, Real-Time, Fast-Paced, Deckbuilding

Deck of Life: No Turns, Individual Card Permadeath is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mixed67% · 18 📉 Recent reviews down 57%
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Deck of Life: No Turns, Individual Card Permadeath price

Deck of Life: No Turns, Individual Card Permadeath is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Deck of Life: No Turns, Individual Card Permadeath

✦ AI summary

Deck of Life: No Turns, Individual Card Permadeath is a real-time deck-building roguelike where cards in your hand sit on the battlefield and can be destroyed by enemy attacks, permanently removing them from your deck. Build synergistic card combos across procedurally themed floors while managing the constant threat of losing your best cards to enemy fire.


Unblocked Enemy Attacks Permanently Remove Cards From Your Deck


Enemy attacks destroy cards from your deck and they are not available in the next encounter.

Protect your Cards while Destroying your Opponent's Hand


Play cards on your side of the field to launch projectiles or construct defenses. Draw new cards from your deck automatically at an upgradable rate.

Survive Each Run


The cards in your hand are always physically on the field and can be attacked at any time with projectiles. You defeat the enemy if you destroy all the enemy's cards on the field. Your run ends if all your cards on the field are destroyed.


Choose Cards to Reinforce your Deck's Strategy


As you clear enemies and events your deck gains cards unique to the floor. Each floor has a unique pool of cards that work well together.

Choose a Path to Control your Deck's Evolution


Each level you have a choice of 2 floors with a unique card pool. You always have the option to continue acquiring cards of the same type or to branch off into a different random card type. As you clear levels the random floors increase in difficulty.

Unlock New Starting Decks


Every floor you defeat you gain a new deck that you can start a run with. This new deck has cards specific to the floor's unique cards.

Deck of Life: No Turns, Individual Card Permadeath — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Verified
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Deck of Life: No Turns, Individual Card Permadeath is a free card battler with an interesting core concept but severe execution problems that most players find frustrating. Common complaints include poor tutorials and unclear card descriptions that make the game confusing, suspicious AI-generated graphics, shallow combat against uninspired opponents, and a game loop so fast it can be finished in seconds without depth.

Recommended Apr 5, 2024
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10 found this helpful
Not recommended May 28, 2025
"Deck of Life: No Turns, Individual Card Permadeath" is a bad title for a game and a very badly made, convoluted and instructionless card battler... think Slay The Spire but the developer didn't bother making interesting monsters to fight, it's just empty 1v1 fights vs the AI. It was a complete and utter failure. The graphics aren't great, suspiciously AI slop looking garbage with no explanation about how things work. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procgen algorithms to create infinite, samey, repetitive, soulless levels, because that's a lot less work. As a result of this poor decision, the game gets tired and repetitive almost immediately. Developers must learn t…
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 11, 2023
IDK If its me or the drugs that the AI was on when it made this...
2 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 10, 2023
This is a very interesting game, but I think it needs a touch of polish. I love the idea of it, but at the current state, you can blaze through a game in 15s. Again, the idea is very cool, but I can't see myself playing it at the current state
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 6, 2024
Holy what. Barely any explanation, cards don't tell what they do. First run I got stuck on final boss just spamming defense cards at each other since we both ran out of attacks. At least it's free.
Not recommended Jul 25, 2023
Deck of life is a much different game than I expected. While I have expected it to be a turn-based card game, a quick real-time game came out, the game is so fast it could even be considered an action game. The tutorial in the game is very bad, you have to learn it yourself and the game is quite difficult. I may only recommend trying this game because of the free price tag.

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