Cards, Blades & Fine Print

A dryly funny single-player card RPG full of absurd quests and dangerous bureaucracy. Mix three talent paths, battle 170 enemies, and replace spiders with unicorns if you prefer. The original soundtrack is included with your purchase at no extra cost.

Original soundtrack included at no extra cost

The complete original soundtrack is included with the full game at no extra cost. Enjoy 40 instrumental tracks with around 93 minutes of music, available to download as MP3 and lossless FLAC files in your Steam library. No separate soundtrack purchase is needed.

About the Game

A card RPG where even heroic deeds need an official stamp. One divine filing error lands you in Oakford. Build your action deck, read enemy intentions and find your own fighting style – amid absurd quests, dry dialogue and dangerous bureaucracy.

Spiders? Officially replaced by unicorns, if you prefer.

A group of darkly dressed adventurers stands in a moonlit forest before a gigantic, outrageously cute unicorn with huge eyes and a rainbow mane.

Enable Unicorn Protection in the settings: clear spider imagery throughout the game is replaced by outrageously cute unicorns. Names, text and gameplay remain unchanged. The dignity of Duskwood does not.

Your deck. Your fighting style. Your questionable decisions.

Build your own fighting style around a compact action deck. Read enemy intentions, combine attacks, parries, techniques and spells, and develop your hero freely across Warrior, Mage and Assassin paths. Hybrid builds are expressly permitted. Sensible choices are merely recommended.

Keep your loot. Move on. Discover the next absurdity.

Between battles, explore regions, resolve multi-part cases, take on questionable jobs, and improve your equipment, alchemy, smithy and hero's home. Defeat does not erase your journey. Retreat, prepare, and return with better tools or a worse mood.

Explore two major villages, several regions and the deep dungeon. Take on 26 main cases, repeatable hunts, tavern adventures and special assignments – all the way to a complete endgame. Officially approximate.

Try it first. Your adventure comes with you.

The free demo gives you a taste of the world. Your demo save automatically carries over into the full game – no need to reapply for previously completed heroic deeds.

FEATURES

Turn-based card battles with clearly telegraphed enemy intentions
Three freely mixable class and talent paths
583 collectible equipment items – each with its own artwork
60 collectible mission, dungeon and story sets in the set archive
Persistent loot, upgrades, potions, set bonuses and equipment profiles
170 distinct enemies with individual artwork, stats and officially questionable job titles
26 main cases, repeatable hunts, tavern adventures and special assignments
Two major villages, several regions, a deep dungeon and a complete endgame
Three difficulty variants with unchanged rewards
A dedicated autosave and three manual save slots with a local backup
Demo progress is automatically carried over into the full game
Controller support for standard gamepads alongside mouse and keyboard
Fully playable in German and English
No additional account, advertising, in-app purchases or telemetry
Original soundtrack with 40 tracks in MP3 and FLAC included with your purchase at no extra cost