Primateria

Yugioh + Hearthstone + Slay The Spire with some adjustments that make the Yugioh actually work. Fusions regress to their original cards when you destroy them, meaning you still have material even if you lose your boss monster. You can attack a target with multiple creatures, meaning that walling is more about building up board interactions rather than just having a high stat card. Beating over creatures damages life points, 1 per, and players have 10 LP. There's three front row and two back row slots, and the back row can't be attacked until the front is gone. All of this makes the board state actually quite dynamic. You can rotate your enemy's cards to open up vulnerabilities, swarm over big creatures, take a lot of damage if you don't protect your swarm, tactically steal and debuff and discard creatures to open up weakpoints, etc. You are still reliant on your hand not bricking, but every fusion draws you a card and so it's *much* less bad than it could be. The art, design, and writing are also charming. They're weird and indie, but they work, and I'll take club penguin illustration homages over ai slopcards any day. I'll update the review as I play deeper, but if you like in…

A Surprisingly Deep Deckbuilder with Strong Archetypes this game deserves more popularity. People say this game is similar to Yu-Gi-Oh!, but I’ve never played that, so I can’t speak to how much it borrows from it. What I can say is that the card mechanics here feel well thought-out and make deck building genuinely enjoyable. Cards are clearly designed with distinct archetypes in mind—things like token generation, multiple attacks per turn, cycling , or sacrificing health for greater value. It’s fun to discover synergies and build around specific strategies, and there’s enough variety that experimenting with different approaches doesn’t get old. Even without knowing the inspirations behind it, the game stands on its own with tight design and satisfying combos. If you enjoy roguelike progression and creative deckbuilding, this one’s worth checking out.

finally... card game

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass boss fights and terrible card rewards.

Primateria, developed by Yfrit Games and published by Surefire.Games, is a roguelike deck-builder that embraces unpredictability, experimentation, and mechanical freedom as its defining traits. Rather than mimicking the structure of more rigid card battlers, it builds itself around a fusion-based system where cards can be combined, transformed, empowered, and even reimagined mid-combat. This design makes Primateria feel far more fluid than the typical turn-based deck-builder. The game encourages improvisation not only because you can play multiple cards without the usual mana restrictions, but because card evolution — and de-evolution — is part of its core loop. Each run becomes a sandbox of shifting strategies, a place where even weak cards can grow into powerhouse tools with the right fusion or where a strong card may revert and force you to pivot quickly. The world that frames these mechanics is equally imaginative. Primateria casts you as a “Polupus,” a strange being navigating a mythic, surreal universe populated by gods, esoteric creatures, and cosmic threats. The story mode gives this strange universe context, but it’s the visual direction and conceptual creativity that mak…

As someone who loves Yugioh in all formats, but hates roguelikes and even the term roguelike, I love this game. Yugioh just happens to be a game that blends perfectly with roguelike runs, and this game does an excellent job of capturing that combined magic. Very much a hidden gem, personally I prefer this to any other deck builder.