Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
EXLIX · 2025 · RPG, Exploration, Turn-Based Tactics, Card Battler, Roguelite
PC
Mostly Positive76% · 297 📈 Making a comeback 93%
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About Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
STORY
At the end of the 21st century, world was engulfed in great war and human civilization had come to an end. Handful of people who escaped from the devastation of the war hid themselves in a huge bunker, then hundreds of years have passed. The door of the bunker is finally opened after 500 years of seclusion, the people cut off from outer world are confronted with world that has completely changed. The bunker decides to send explorers to the surface to survive. You are the explorers of the bunker. Outer world, continent is in chaos. Several factions are fighting for supremacy and the bunker's expedition is thrown into the middle of storm. Every choices you make has a butterfly effect that can either bring peace to the world or lead to greater chaos and destruction. Endless trials and crossroads await you. The fate of this world depends only on your choices.GAMEPLAY
- Shambles is a combination of text RPG, deckbuilding and roguelike. Play as an explorer in a bunker, expedite vast world and encounter countless stories. Choose what to do in any given situation to complete missions.
- When you encounters combat, turn-based card deck battle begins. Engage in strategic combat by using skills and cards to attack and defend against enemies.
- Story completes in a zone, you can select next zone on the map to explore. Explore this large world by moving to zone adjacent to your current location. There are hidden zones and dungeons somewhere on the continent, you'll have opportunity to refine your character in the middle of expedition. You can enhance character's stats, buy and equip gear, unlock skills as well for next battles.
- There are card and equipment can only be obtained by completing certain stories. Explore the chaotic world finding hidden elements.
FEATURES
- Multiple endingsAs an explorer, you can travel the world of Shambles and uncover its secrets, find yourself at the center of a great war, or die futilely without trace. The fate of this world and your expedition depends only on your choices.
- Deckbuilding card battle Build your own deck and utilize it to face your enemies. You can be a soldier dealing modern weapons, a knight on the battlefield, or a powerful wizard. Combine hundreds of cards, equipment and skills to create your own tactics.
- A wide variety of cards, skills and equipmentOver 300 cards, 200+ skills and equipment can be combined to create completely different play styles. Try different strategies on every single expeditions.
- A vast continentThis new world is now called continent of Eustea. The continent has over 100 zones for you to explore and with that comes many stories to tell. For 500 years, humans have survived in different ways, achieving new civilizations are completely different from the old ones. Explore this uncharted world and find traces of forgotten civilizations.
- Record of a new worldThe world outside is very different from the world you know. As a stranger from the bunker to this world, you want to leave record of it. Create a pictorial book about this unknown world including new creatures, people you've met, books and journals you've collected.
- Many forks in the roadAs you progress the story, you'll face crossroads needs choices. These choices can be small forks in the road or huge forks completely change your play style. Zones you explore, character's health, equipment and stats can all be forks in the road.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This is a *much* better game that it originally appeared to be. The first couple runs were pretty tough until I started getting a feel for the game. There is some fantastic writing going on and these are top notch moral and ethical puzzles constructed in a way that really draws you in and makes the decision making parts of the game even more challenging than the combat phases. This is really good, well worth it to play enough to get yourself drawn into the plot arches. I still want to play it again and explore some plot lines that I failed previously with different teams and decks. * Starting is frustrating because you can't undo choices and that maniac gets your team over and over, but its worth figuring out. Try playing a strong dumb guy and just punch him because you didn't like the way he looked at you :P * Pick quest colors that go along with your deck theme. If you're strong and lack gold, go for the skull quests to gain experience fast and get the most new cards. If your quest takes you away from your colors the do the gray quests. Ones with a card looking thing are merchants usually and campfire looking things can provide valuable information. * The game really rewards y…1 found this helpful
This game deserves a lot more credit than what it is currently getting; there is a learning curve but it feels rewarding to do so, and it really nails the "one more round" vibe. Except that round can take hours long, and before you know it you've played all day long. Not many games can achieve evoking such a response anymore, but Shambles certainly manages to do so. There's a multitude of stories and outcomes as well which is easy to get invested into, and it even has a 'Pokedex-like' bestiary that'll have you hunting for adding more to it through making different choices in subsequent playthroughs. Featuring cameos of Gordon Ramsey, Bear Grylls and others, as well as references to other things ("Slavemon" for example, lol) make said random events in which these appear quite funny sometimes and add to the experience. All in all, a really positive surprise and thus deserving of more recognition. Here's to hoping the DLC will happen sometime soon!1 found this helpful
A great little game for what it is. You will easily get a day or two of fun out of it if you enjoy this type of thing.1 found this helpful
可以遊玩
It's Slay the Spire with FFX node level up system. Many games like this have the fights few battles or hours exactly the same. I played 3 runs so far and each one was vastly different.
A very unusual deckbuild with a plot and a ton... sometimes you even think there are too many choices to make. But that's the whole point, I suppose. Highly recommended.
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