Relief
Billiontail · 2026 · Roguelite, Roguelike Deckbuilder, Card Battler, Turn-Based Combat, Strategy
PC
Mostly Positive71% · 89
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About Relief
Relief is a deckbuilding roguelike set in a post–Journey to the West world. As the awakened heir of the Green Bull Demon (Azure Ox), you'll fight alongside five unique spirits, collect cards and artifacts, and craft powerful builds to carve out your own legend.Each features its own cards and brings a distinct combat style to the fight.
- Lu Wei: Transforms troublesome status cards into cards with random special modifiers.
- Cui Beibei: Summons all manner of lovely feline spirits with a variety of abilities to aid in battle.
- Chechi Rocket Team: Seamlessly switch between the tiger, deer, and goat captains to adapt your strategy mid-battle.
- A.Lian: Features a unique Tribute card fusion mechanic. Cards with Blessing gain additional effects when placed at the far left or right of your hand.
- Mrs.Luo: Wields three elemental forces that combine into devastating chain reactions and intricate builds.
- Rebuild: Remove every card from your deck. Gain that many choices.
- Glass Cannon: You have only 10% Max HP and gain only 10% of any Max HP increases, but deal 250% damage.
- Less is More: Card removal costs 50 less gold. +1 card removal at the Black Market.
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- Combo: Play all copies of this card in your hand and draw pile.
- Overdraw: Play this card for free. At the start of the next X turns, lose 1 Energy (X = its cost).
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- Over 1,000 cards and 300 artifacts: Character-specific cards, general cards, and Black Market options combine with a massive pool of artifacts to create near-endless build variety! No two runs ever feel the same.
- Unique 14-day cycle: The game unfolds across five acts, built around a repeating 14-day cycle. While in town, strengthen your build at the Shop, Hot Springs, and Shrine, then venture beyond its gates to explore the unknown. Plan your days wisely and work your way toward the final boss.
- Curious encounters: Over 50 random events steeped in Chinese folklore and urban legends await. Will you accept an offering in a dim, shadowy corner, or awaken something... unknown? Every choice shapes what comes next.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I rewrote this review, which originally listed some obvious issues, after the developer responded and quickly pushed out a patch addressing them. If you see the developer response, it's referring to those. [h1]Verdict[/h1] I recommend this game to anyone who enjoys card games and the process of discovering new systems/combos (so long as they're not put off by the art and content warning, so I won't be recommending this to anyone I personally know...). I believe there's enough there to enjoy enough for long enough to justify the price (at least on sale - I got it for $12). If you were only interested in buying one roguelite deck builder and playing it for hundreds of hours, I'd probably recommend Slay the Spire (STS) instead if you hadn't already played it, but I found this fun even though I've already spent hundreds of hours across STS and its sequel. [h1] Wait, how is it fun even when you've already played STS?[/h1] This game has a different take on act progression. Acts are divided into 14 days. On each day, you can pick any one thing that passes time, regardless of location on the map. The shop is always available, with goods refreshing each day. Resting or card upgrades are …2 found this helpful
Good game with multiple characters with multiple ways to play but getting rid of cards is expensive and some of the late game bosses screw you over for playing certain ways and the greed, hatred, ignorance meters punish you to much for how hard they are to manage especially sense they change what bosses you fight so if you want to play some way but the game does not give you ways to decrease the meters you can end up fighting a boss that goes really against your play style.2 found this helpful
Very mid Deckbuilder, progression it's really bad.1 found this helpful
Does it feel like a Slay the Spire, Monster Train, etc? Yes. Did it change the formula up and do something really different? Not really. Is it super addictive and fun to play? Yes. If you enjoy roguelike deckbuilder games, you'll like this game.1 found this helpful
i havent been playing this game long enough, but im so much of a deckbuilding game enthusiast i decided to leave a review. imagine slay the spire, now imagine if slay the spire had good/atractive characters. i know playing a game based on how attractive the characters and images on the cards are is not exactly the best, but this one is so aesthetically pleasing i cant help but talk about it. man i feel completely immersed, the atmosphere is just tooooo good istg, if you enjoy deckbuilding games im pretty sure youll enjoy this one as much as i do. i love the 14 in game days system of each run. Relief is one of the top tier deckbuilding games out there
Interesting game and well made , honestly recommend any game who fan of Roguelike Deck builder that want new art style theme of game feel inspire by Slay the Spire similar . give it try think other might enjoy more than me.
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