Once Upon A Card

Once Upon A Card

ISART DIGITAL · June 19, 2026 · Strategy, Card Game, Indie, Roguelike, Puzzle

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About Once Upon A Card

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Once Upon A Card is a Slavic-inspired roguelike where you arrange rooms on a grid to build your own path through a child's dreams while constructing a powerful card deck to defeat nightmares. Each run lets you craft entirely new strategies by combining unique cards and optimizing your deck, creating an endlessly replayable experience that blends real-time puzzle-solving with deckbuilding creativity.

Help a royal child find their way through their dreams! Use cards to build paths, create combos, and adapt your strategy as each run brings new challenges and bosses. Will you let the nightmares take over?

Once Upon A Card — game info

Platforms
Windows
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.

Recommended Aug 10, 2026
This was fun, clever and a delight! I sincerely hope the developer considers a larger endeavor!
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Recommended Jul 19, 2026
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Recommended Oct 13, 2026
Great little deckbuilder that appears to have been made by students. I wish it had more content, but I can't complain about a student game being small in scope. Here's hoping they expand this later, because I would absolutely buy a fuller version of this.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 19, 2026
Really exciting concept, worth expanding upon, looking forward to further chapters and the possibility of an Endless mode. + Like the general art direction of the game (more nightmare designs would spice things up ) + good soundtrack + like the narration ( would love if there was a full story being told by playing the same type of Fairy tale repeatedly) Overall great, with a lot of potential to grow further :)
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Recommended Aug 16, 2026
Great little find. There's a lot of thought that goes into your strategy of choosing cards, when to choose what kind of card, and sometimes, a little luck goes a long way. Won my first chapter 1 run with a 53% and 0 to my name. It's a great feeling when things go your way! I would comment that the initial tutorial was simple and to the point, but miss discussing connection points.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 3, 2026
Fun and intresting game, I just wish there was more than one chapter.
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