Signs of the Sojourner
Echodog Games · 2020 · Indie, RPG, Casual, Adventure, Card Game
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About Signs of the Sojourner
Signs of the Sojourner is a narrative card game about relationships and connecting with people.
Your deck is your character, reflecting your experiences and shaping your relationships. Make decisions about who your character is in this world, pushing forward with the cards you’re dealt.
You take over your mother's store after her death, traveling to diverse locations in order to acquire goods for the shop. Along the way, encounter optimistic stories, compassionate characters, and delightful surprises in a world where travel is difficult and climate change has made life hard.
Key Features
Forge new friendships, rivalries, and connections through card game conversations. Play cards to match the tone and perspective of your partner or disregard their feelings to sell your own point of view. The story continues either way.
Venture forth to find rare and useful goods to aid your town. Make difficult choices along the way. The consequences shape your character’s deck and every conversation that follows, en route to many possible endings.
You'll explore the world, but also explore what it means to return home.
Meet and grow alongside unforgettable characters. Will you hold on to your childhood friendships? Will your adventures on the road lead you down different paths? Who will you become, and what will you leave behind?
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Players consistently praise this game for seamlessly blending narrative and card mechanics, with the deckbuilding system creating meaningful character interactions and compelling replay value as players discover different story branches and towns. The strong ludonarrative design gives the gameplay genuine weight, though some players find the core mechanic frustrating—being forced to exchange cards to match town symbols can feel like it punishes natural play and undermines deck-building strategy despite the mechanic's narrative purpose. Overall, it's recognized as a short but remarkably well-cr
This game is quite something. It merges narrative and mechanics flawlessly. Characters tell stories with how and what cards they play and you'll be able to read their hands by how they talk to you. I played through a beautiful story of finding where home is, and i can't wait to go again to find all the different possibilities of what this tale could have become and meet all the characters i didn't ever see, all the towns i couldn't visit and all the help i couldn't provide.2 found this helpful
Amazing game. Short, but great for a few playthroughs and very worth the money. Also a gem for anybody interested in game design and strong ludonarrative.1 found this helpful
Really love how the game creates profound messages without being super on the nose. I enjoyed how the mechanics gave the story structure and urgency while still letting me fill in a lot of the "blanks" in my own mind! It's really nice to see a deckbuilder with cool mechanics like this.1 found this helpful
Match the symbols game, each town has it's own preferences.. first three towns are all fairly identical. Circles and Triangles mostly. But as you interact with people on the journey, you're forced to take a card they played and exchange it for one of your cards. Actively punishes you for playing their game. Next few towns are entirely different, that's where the Squares and Diamonds come into play. I would love to just play the game but can't get past the feeling that trying to play the game actively ruins the game since you have to match to progress. As you visit new towns, you'll fail their conversation card game because you don't have those symbols, but you'll get a card of their symbol at the cost of one you have in your deck. Thus you lose the ability to talk to your own town, or the other two towns near yours. What a silly concept. As you venture further from home, you lose yourself.. that's the life lesson.. got it. Going to look for a mod that turns all the symbols into dog paws.
a really cool deckbuilding game about conversations. this game has some really cool ideas, the whole deckbuilding mechanic in relation to having conversations was such a cool way in melding gameplay and story. it really made me engage in the story making sure I was always choosing the right cards, and the right order, just so I could maximize my trips every month. it took me one run to realize how to properly gather cards so that you have more chances of succeeding in conversations, that by the second run I was very satisfied with my outcome. Yes, sometimes the card draw of you or the other person might not help the conversation, but if you play your cards right you can even mitigate situations like that. I will definitely play more so I can explore more but I am already very satisfied with just two runs and with both endings I got. A recommend for those who want a different kind of deckbuilding card game with some really cool mechanics and an intriguing story.
8/10
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