.Forty-Five

.Forty-Five

Microwave Studios · March 24, 2024 · Roguelike Deckbuilder, Western, Free to Play, Card Game, Roguelite

.Forty-Five is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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.Forty-Five price

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About .Forty-Five

✦ AI summary

Load cards into your revolver chamber by chamber to build powerful synergies and blast through procedurally-generated Wild West maps in this free, open-source deck-building rogue-lite. With over 50 unique hand-drawn cards, innovative rotational chamber mechanics, and ever-changing biomes, every run delivers a fresh tactical showdown against diverse enemies.

A perfect mix of card game, rogue-lite, and pure wild west mayhem. Explore an ever-changing map, collect interesting cards, and battle enemies.Explore and Collect
Explore the Frontier and add powerful cards - bullets - to your collection. Each one equipped with its own unique effect.

Build
Each bullet has an individual effect, used to create powerful synergies. Use them to build your deck and to become an Outlaw Legend!

Load and shoot to kill!
Load your cards into the revolver and use the effects to your advantage, while also utilizing the limited amount of chambers and the rotations of the revolver. Then, shoot the enemies and send them 6 feet deep! But watch out, he won't just stand there letting you shoot him down so easily…

Features
Completely free & Open Source: And thats a great price if you ask me. No ads or any kind of microtransactions, I promise. Read down below to find out more about the open-source licence that .forty-five is under.
Over 50 unique cards: some serious and some … a little bit … less serious.
Innovative gameplay: allowing the player to achieve creative combos with the revolvers rotation.
100% handdrawn assets: I might not be the next picasso, but hey, I'm trying okay …
A procedurally generated map: ever-changing, guaranteeing a new experience every run.
Deckbuilding: to truly personalize your way of … shooting people.
Different enemy types: so you'll never run out of things to shoot at.
Unique biomes: each … you know what just download and find out it's free.

We are open source!
The source code of .forty-five is public under the GPLv3 license. But what does that actually mean? It means that anyone is free to view and share the code of the game. Also, everyone can make their own modified versions of our game and redistribute it, as long as they maintain the GPLv3.0 license.

Want to know more? Read about the license here: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/

Want to take a look at our code? Visit our Github: https://github.com/blueUserRed/forty-five

Project Infos:
.Forty-Five is developed as a Diploma Thesis by five students of the higher technical vocational school "HTL Rennweg" in Vienna. We hope you will have as much fun playing, as we had developing.

.Forty-Five — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

.Forty-Five is a free roguelike deck-builder with an amazing core concept and engaging gameplay that impresses players considering its no-cost price tag, though it suffers from significant balance issues like drawing only two cards per turn instead of the typical five and a severe lack of card draw synergies that make progression frustrating. The game also has technical problems including buggy save points that don't work reliably, an unintuitive UI, and appears to be stalled in development despite player interest.

Recommended Oct 5, 2026
I found this cool rougelike game from Real Civil Engineer from years ago, and it so underrated HOW IS THIS A FREE GAME overall you should try it cuz the gameplay is amazing ngl
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Not recommended Aug 26, 2026
the concept is amazing, but as is often the case, the execution of said concept is sadly lacking. there is an extremely good reason most roguelike deck builders have FIVE cards drawn at the start of each turn and not two. also there's practically zero cards that actually draw additional cards, and I somehow ended up only finding ONE card that allowed me to draw more cards. after playing for over an hour.
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Recommended Oct 8, 2026
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Not recommended Sep 19, 2026
When I found out about this game, I was quite excited, and it actually met my expectations. Prior playing it was quite difficult, I got killed once before I knew the tactic. I played this game a year ago and stopped. I returned to the game and to my surprise it has not updated, still being "in development", but either way, I progressed further into the game, and I was disappointed. 1. Saving Points There's multiple saving points for your cards, when you "ran out of bullets" (the screen you see when you die), you return to the last saving point. I had already progressed to the second saving point, yet when I died, it returned me back to the first saving point. Funnily enough, i was shocked, and I went the town previous to the particular saving point, and when I decided to continue and went back, it teleport-ed me to the mid-section of the levels, which I was stuck with basic cards. When I made it out, the game crashed. The challenges I went through had to be done again, the cards acquired from the same challenge was somehow saved though. Once again I defeated the challenges, and the game yet again, crashed. This time, I had NO cards, out of curiosity, I went into a challenge, wh…
Recommended Sep 18, 2026
I really like the game. The only real feedback I could give is that, a more responsive and informative UI would make the game much more enjoyable, for me atleast.
Recommended Sep 4, 2026
how is this game free??? its so much fun i was stuck for a while within the first few fights but once i actually understood the mechanics i beat the game first try- wish there was more to it though. Amazing game 100% reccomend

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