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Spiral to Despair
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A haunting indie RPG where blackjack card play meets deep progression in a roughly 12-hour journey through Hell.

Black Jacket
In this blackjack-inspired rogue-lite deckbuilder, you cheat, bribe, and gamble your way through an atmospheric underworld story in around ten hours.
2026-05-12
- First person
- Adventure
- Horror
- Survival
- Strategy

Indie

Simulator

Turn-based strategy (TBS)

Card & Board Game

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Blood Card

A grim, pixel-art roguelite deckbuilder where cards serve as health, with turn-based combat, a choice between escape and confronting Death, and a compact median reviewer playtime of about 4 hours.

2019-05-24

Strategy
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Deck of Souls

A single-player dark fantasy roguelite deckbuilder with souls-like combat, enemy-to-card mechanics, and a looped hellscape, averaging about 6–7 hours of play.

2024-12-10

Strategy
Fantasy
Tactical
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Card & Board Game

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HELLCARD: Prologue

A quick tactical card-battler prologue offering solo or co-op dungeon runs against demonic forces.

2023-01-30

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Draft of Darkness

A punishing single-player survival horror RPG combining deck-building and roguelike dungeon crawling, with procedurally generated maps and a roughly 13-hour campaign.

2023-08-23

Horror
Survival
Strategy
Third person
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)
Card & Board Game

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Into the Restless Ruins

A dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where you build the dungeon each night and fight through it, with a brisk session-based loop.

2025-05-15

Action
Adventure
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Arcade

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Faith in Despair

A dark, punishing single-player roguelike deckbuilder about crafting custom cards and gambling against Death in procedural runs.

2025-11-11

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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Skogdal

A single-player roguelike deckbuilder in a 1990s Norwegian town, featuring combo-building card drafts, a hand-crafted world, an unsettling mystery, and black-metal-inspired hand-drawn art, with reviewer playtimes around 10 hours.

2025-04-28

Adventure
Strategy
Indie

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Blackjack Descent

A tense single-player blackjack survival horror where you play hands against a sinister dealer to escape a locked room, with short, suspenseful sessions.

2026-02-19

Action
First person
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator

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Hellslave

A dark fantasy dungeon crawler about bargaining with the Devil, featuring old-school tactical combat, demonic build-crafting, and a roughly 10-hour campaign.

2022-05-26

First person
Fantasy
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)

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Nadir: A Grimdark Deck Builder - Prologue

A ~16-minute grimdark roguelike deck-builder prologue where card plays trigger predictable enemy reactions, mixed with city expansion and resource gathering.

2022-03-22

Action
Puzzle
Strategy
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)
Card & Board Game

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Deepest Chamber: Resurrection

A compact single-player roguelite deck-battler using card boosting to push through increasingly dangerous descents, with a mostly positive but occasionally slow feel.

2023-10-24

First person
Horror
Strategy
Fantasy
Tactical
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)
Card & Board Game