Into the Restless Ruins

A fun roguelike that is a mix of deck builder and dungeon crawler. You have a deck of cards that represent dungeon rooms and when you start a run, you will build a basic three room entry dungeon, then once you run out of build points you will enter your new little dungeon and explore it for loot and fight some monsters. The longer you can stay in there and earn XP the better as every time you level you will add a new room for your deck. The idea is to last as long as possible then escape using the entrance portal. Once you have escaped, you can use your new rooms to build more of the dungeon. As the game goes by, the game adds little curse skulls, one after each run, more if you die, when the skull curse bar reaches a certain point you will get a curse which will make your runs harder in some way. So you are encouraged to try and escape rather than die in the dungeon. As you slowly build more you will finally access the rooms dotted around the map that are covered in mist. Once you make a path to those rooms you can go there to uncover them and see whats in there. It might be an NPC, a room with a bit of loot, or if you are lucky a Seal room. In the Seal rooms you activate the seal and fight a wave of monsters. Opening a seal opens up blocked off areas of the dungeon making more room for you to build. Unlocking seals will also lower your curse bar a bit, keeping those nasty curses off your back a bit. It also should be noted that if the curse bar ever completely fills to the end, you are consumed by darkness and lose the game. Unlock enough seals and you will eventually make your way to the dungeon boss and if you can beat them you have finished that particular dungeon and will unlock the next. Each dungeon location has a slightly different theme and ways the seals unlock as well as a different boss. Its quite an interesting take on the whole genre mixing together card building, dungeon construction and dungeon crawling. Its quite interesting and there are a bunch of cards to unlock and the cards can also be upgraded. The base rooms you start with are corridors, rooms to recharge your torch and health etc, but as you go along you will unlock training rooms, forges, stables, graveyards etc, all with their own little kinks and twists on gameplay. Its a solid little title and I like it quite a bit. The asking price is very reasonable to given how long you are likely to get out of it. Im about 6 hours in so far and have done 3 of the dungeons and beaten their bosses. A word of advice: Plan your dungeon well as you construct it. Remember you have to walk through it yourself. If you make it a maze, you are making a maze for yourself to get lost in. Spread out your healing and torch recharge places logically so you always have SOMEWHERE nearby(ish) that you can get to to recharge if things get desperate. And dont think the signpost rooms are useless, you can move the direction of the sign yourself, I always havint the signs point to the way to go to reach the exit portal. Can be super useful when you are running for exit low and health and torchlight. Anyway, well worth it!

This is a neat little game that incorporates Scottish folklore as you create your own dungeon. There's lots of replayability here, with your character leveling up as you play through scenarios, unlock new cards and cantrips, and interact with characters during your run. I didn't expect to enjoy this game as much as I did, as I primarily bought this game to support developers who are willing to put in the extra effort to include minority languages like Scottish Gaelic and Welsh. I would definitely recommend this game for anyone who wants to try a new take on roguelike deckbuilders. Chòrd e rium gu mòr - tha e glè spòrsail! :)

Ein guter Rougelike Dungeon Deckbuilder. Absolut empfehlenswert

不算推荐的推荐 很有想法 拼图+探索+吸血鬼 就是对路盲不太友好 以及 好像没有很好玩

This one is a short playthrough but an awesome one: it was my favorite game of 2025, and it's a criminal shame that so few people have heard of it. As a big fan of roguelike deckbuilders, roguelike ARPGs, and the classic tabletop game Castles of Mad King Ludwig, this game felt perfectly tailored to me. Think of it as an experience in which Phase I starts with you playing CoMKL, then you play low-fi Hades during Phase II (on the map that you made in Phase I), then you strategize about where on the worldmap to expand your dungeon next. A really satisfying strategy loop, just enough RNG to keep you permanently on your toes and excited for the next run, and a totaly cromulent action layer that gets its best mileage out of the fact that there is no minimap...you are forced to remember the dungeon you just laid out. Diabolical and awesome. Seriously, just pick this one up, you'll thank me.

Не могу поставить положительную оценку. Игра интересная, симпатичная, но душная. Долгие рейды, много лишних комнат, которые открываются во время прохождения игры, зачем их использовать, если к тому моменту уже сформируется стабильный, выигрышный стиль прохождения. Саундтрек беда, учитывая длительность рейда.

this game is really fun honestly, and anyone who likes roguelikes will love this