
A hand-drawn, dark-fantasy roguelite deckbuilder where you build a run around gear, equipment and weapon mastery. Fight tactical card battles, and push deeper through a branching “dungeon crawl” structure.
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Monastery is a dark-fantasy roguelite deckbuilder where your gear is your class.
Equip gears and items to unlock entirely different card pools and shape your build around loot decisions.
Master weapons across runs to refine your long-term playstyle. Battle through tactical, punishing encounters.
Choose your path at the crossroads, survive the crawl, and push deeper into the Monastery.

Monastery offers plenty of challenges! Cut through different hazardous terrains, each with its unique type of enemy. Be prepared, attacks come from multiple sides, you always have to watch your back. Choose your weapons and equipment wisely to best suit your playstyle. Monastery is intentionally challenging and offer a meaningful punishment for mistakes, Expect to refine builds over multiple attempts.
If you’re looking for a relaxed, low-pressure card experience, this may not be for you.

Gear defines your deck Equipment sets unlock unique card pools
Diverse areas and opponents. Each area has its dominant enemy type with special abilities and loot.
Loot-driven deckbuilding Your build identity comes from what you wear
Double-sided battles. Enemies approach from both sides; careful and calculated combat will go a long way towards victory.
Weapon mastery system The more experience you have in using a certain weapon type the more advanced cards and boons will be available to you during the runs.
Boss tactics over HP walls Learn patterns, adapt strategy
Permanent collection progression Equip a ring that gives you rare advantages or a trinket that lets you influence the card rewards for your next run. Expand options, not just raw power
Steep difficulty scaling Designed for players who enjoy the climb
Hand-drawn dark fantasy world with Immersive artwork and soundtracks

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Languages: English*, Hungarian**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
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This is a really well crafted Slay the Spire like game with some original ideas added. I love it.
Now only now after 30 hours i got a real grip on his game with variety in armory what a commanding yet challenging blast!
I recommend this game! It has active development and continues to get better and better. It's a bit like slay the spire (but not a clone at all mind you), but instead of classes your card pools are determined by what set up of weapon, offhand, armor, trinket, and ring you wear before a run and you can switch your get-up before each run, so you can try different strategies and builds or just mix it up to keep each run feeling different. And positioning in fights is important as there are armor and block mechanics as you fend off hordes of monsters.
Volt lehetőségem a fejlesztőket személyesen megismerni a 2024-es Budapesti Comic Conon és nagyon megtetszett a játék. Nagyon sok Fantasy Kaland játékot játszottam már viszont ez a kedvencem mind közül. IG : borsodi_itto
If you like deck building games i think you'll love Monastery. Even in early access state there are a lot of different builds as you level up and get new cards. And many more to come. They just added medium armor with a lot of new cards and it gave some new mechanics to the game so i'm really looking forward for the new items. The music is great it creates a cool atmosphere for the unique drawings. You have to really think in harder levels how you play your cards, and it was a big YES for me!
TL;DR: The game is a hidden gem. The devs are still involved, release regular updates, and are very responsive. The game has received multiple updates and new content since the negative review in October 13. This is a passion project from this developer and you can see their efforts throughout this game. I really recommend it to deckbuilder fans! ------ I've read the one recent negative review on October 13. This review is now outdated. Honestly, it was this review which made me hesitant to try the game, but I am very glad I took the chance. The game has received many updates since this review. The devs have frequent, biweekly updates and are very quick and responsive to feedback. I provided a report about a bug and they found it, fixed it, and updated it in this most recent patch. Pros: - The game is visually beautiful, with art much like Darkest Dungeon. The card art is also equally as beautiful. - No crashes, frame drops, or visual stuttering. Runs like a dream. - As I dig deeper into the game and unlock more cards with more runs, I am finding there are many synergies with cards and it is great to find different builds. - Tooltips for each card and status effect - Unique take on engaging enemies in front and behind, which plays into defensive and offensive strategies. - Good sound design - card actions feels like they have substance. - One negative review stated the speed of the game was too slow. The devs have since increased the speed and it runs buttery smooth and fast on my setup. - Roguelite deckbuilder - there is metaprogression which provides alternatives for new weapons and armour which provide additional cards. One negative review mentioned that the trinkets you purchase may have a cooldown - this is not true. Trinkets only need to be charged once they are used and are charged once you complete a run. This is why his trinket stopped working. Cons: - I did have to figure out some aspects of what cards would do simply based on gameplay. Some improvements to the tutorial may need to be considered. - The "crossroads" aspect instead of a map is unique as far as I know, but this area has the same background and background music on each run. Some adjustments to this area would be helpful to create more immersion and a sense of progression throughout individual runs. - The "Victory" music is strangely out of sync with the theme of the rest of the game. I personally think it is immersion breaking. Give this hidden gem a try!
очередная проверка вашей удачи. на этот раз на два фронта. думать обязательно не только в бою, но и над наградами
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Really recommended!
where do i change the language?
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