Once Upon A Card
ISART DIGITAL · 2026 · Strategy, Card Game, Indie, Roguelike, Puzzle
PC
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About Once Upon A Card
BUILD YOUR PATH
A Slavic fairy tale roguelike where you build the dungeon as you go.Arrange the rooms to create your own path through the child's dreams. Combine them to defeat your nightmares, and progress further with each run.Build your deck from unique cards with powerful effects.RULES AND GAME MECHANICS
- Place rooms to progress across the grid.
- Engage enemies to earn currency or add new cards to your deck.
- Spend currency to expand and upgrade your deck.
- Optimize your deck, defeat enemies, and conquer the final boss.
- Replay runs to craft entirely new decks and strategies.
KEY QUALITIES
- Dive into a universe inspired by Slavic legends
- Enjoy a clever combination of real-time puzzles and deckbuilding.
- Play a roguelike game where building your deck allows you to express your creativity.
- A sharp, and empowering experience designed for mastery
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Polished little roguelike deckbuilder from a student team. This genre isn't usually my thing, but the level of finish is impressive: clean presentation, the room-placement mechanic is clever, and technically everything just works no bugs, no jank in the prologue and chapter one. If you like deckbuilders, it's free and an easy recommendation. Only nitpick: combat zooms the board in, and the camera doesn't return to your previous zoom level when the fight ends.2 found this helpful
I got to play the game a bit before it was released, so my shown playtime doesn't reflect how long I've played (~3 to 4 hours). This is a very good student-made game. As of now it lack content for a complete game, but is a very solid proof of concept that show a good understanding of what a good roguelite should be like. If this ever get refined to a comercial version, I would gladly take out the credit card. For now, it's a well made demo, with a few ways to make fun infinite combos to discover and a very polished art direction. You'll get a few hours out of it before finishing to explore everything the demo has to offer and those should be enjoyable.2 found this helpful
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Its a cute little game definitely worth the free download i enjoyed playing it1 found this helpful
cool concept. unfortunately only prologue and chapter 1 are available right now, so it is short and easy.1 found this helpful
An enjoyable tetromino placer / deckbuilder hybrid, which is unfortunately too short to play into the deckbuilding aspects. The game deserves to be fleshed out with more content.
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