Wake her up
Aspects, Finishes and Sigils don't decorate a card. They mark her as Awakened. Elixirs wake cards at random; Shards wake the exact card you want. Both routes compete for the same money.
A plain Pair is worth almost nothing. A plain Pair played through an hour of Charms is worth millions.
The idea
You are not drawing good cards. You are building a machine.
Every round hands you a score to beat and four attempts to do it. What you play is a poker hand. What decides whether it lands is the stack of Charms you assembled over the last hour.
Chips × Mult = your score
The only equation in the game. Everything you buy exists to raise one of those two numbers.
Awaken · Fuse · Ascend
The part no other deckbuilder has
Fuse the rank
Hold four Awakened cards of one rank — any suits, in any mix — and fuse them. Four maidens go in. One card comes out.
Field the Final Form
She arrives with a signature ability that belongs to her alone, and there are thirteen of them to find. Reaching one is the run.
Trailer
Sixty seconds of it
All gameplay, captured from a work-in-progress build.
Screens
One run, in order
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Play a poker hand. Your Charms fire left to right, and the number stops being reasonable. -
Four Awakened cards of one rank. The Evolution screen ticks over to 4/4. -
The Fusion. Four maidens become one Final Form with her own signature power. -
The shop between rounds. Charms, consumables and Shards all want the same money. -
Packs fan out and you take one. Most of a run's swings start here. -
Fifteen alchemical Orders, each a different starting hand of problems. -
81 Charms in the Collection, discovered as you meet them. -
Cycle 8 cleared. The run closes out.
What's in it
Eight Cycles. Twenty-eight villainesses.
Small round, Big round, then something with a name and a face that changes the rules while you fight it. Debuffed suits, locked hands, cards face-down. Beat the Cycle 8 boss to close out a run.
81Charms
13Maidens
13Final Forms
40Consumables
28Villainesses
15Orders
8Trials
18Rites
Bring a different Order every time
Fifteen starting hands of problems
The Hollow Order gave up its face cards. The Sundered Order deals in two suits. The Ember Order presses on with an extra discard. Eight Trials sit on top for when the Orders stop being a problem.
