Elemental Exiles
Elemental Exiles is an RPG deckbuilding roguelike. Play as one of 12 heroes, each with their own personal quest, starting location and initial cards. Overcome challenging battles and adapt to unexpected narrative encounters as you grow your deck and explore.
StrategyRPG
Released
20 Aug 2024
2 years ago
PC
N/A
VGDB Score
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75%
Mostly Positive
Overview
Summary
Elemental Exiles is an RPG deckbuilding roguelike. Play as one of 12 heroes, each with their own personal quest, starting location and initial cards. Overcome challenging battles and adapt to unexpected narrative encounters as you grow your deck and explore.
Description
About This Game
Follow a cast of unique characters in this Deck Building Roguelike, expanding your arsenal of abilities to overcome any challenges that stand in the way of your chosen hero's personal quest as you explore the world, adapting to new twists on every playthrough.
Play as one of 12 unique characters scattered across the map, each with a diverse deck of abilities at their disposal. Guide them carefully across the world to advance their own personal quest and help them achieve glory - or at least closure. 4 Characters are unlocked from the start, but there are 8 more hidden out there in the world for you to find, each with their own unique story to play through. Start your journey with one of these characters:
With each step your character takes, uncover more of the world around you. Watch the vibrant landscape reveal itself as you journey forth, filling in an expansive map that persists across playthroughs, allowing you to revisit your favorite places, address unfinished business with new tactics or forge a new path entirely.
When you choose to play a particular card can be just as important as which card you play. Cards in Elemental Exiles have additional effects that only trigger when certain conditions are met - such as being the first card played on your turn, or being played immediately after another card of a specific element. Whether or not you manage to trigger these extra conditional effects can be the difference between victory and defeat, so be sure to keep possible synergies in mind when choosing new cards for your deck.
Most cards are attuned to one of three elements - Fire, Water or Nature. Each of these has a corresponding strength and weakness - for example, Fire actions are strong against Nature and weak against Water. Naturally certain enemies and bosses also favor a particular element, so while your Fire deck might crush a group of tree spirits while travelling through a forest, it's going to struggle against a hoard of angry water elementals you encounter while walking along the coast... Will you try to specialize in one element to increase synergy? Or will you favor a more balanced approach to reduce your potential weaknesses?
Play as one of 12 unique characters scattered across the map, each with a diverse deck of abilities at their disposal. Guide them carefully across the world to advance their own personal quest and help them achieve glory - or at least closure. 4 Characters are unlocked from the start, but there are 8 more hidden out there in the world for you to find, each with their own unique story to play through. Start your journey with one of these characters:
- A naïve Elven warrior still determined to protect the village that exiled them...
- An old Dwarven researcher searching for a very specific piece of hidden knowledge...
- A bitter bounty hunter determined to track down her treacherous former partners...
- An abandoned young water mage searching for the master who betrayed her...
With each step your character takes, uncover more of the world around you. Watch the vibrant landscape reveal itself as you journey forth, filling in an expansive map that persists across playthroughs, allowing you to revisit your favorite places, address unfinished business with new tactics or forge a new path entirely.
When you choose to play a particular card can be just as important as which card you play. Cards in Elemental Exiles have additional effects that only trigger when certain conditions are met - such as being the first card played on your turn, or being played immediately after another card of a specific element. Whether or not you manage to trigger these extra conditional effects can be the difference between victory and defeat, so be sure to keep possible synergies in mind when choosing new cards for your deck.
Most cards are attuned to one of three elements - Fire, Water or Nature. Each of these has a corresponding strength and weakness - for example, Fire actions are strong against Nature and weak against Water. Naturally certain enemies and bosses also favor a particular element, so while your Fire deck might crush a group of tree spirits while travelling through a forest, it's going to struggle against a hoard of angry water elementals you encounter while walking along the coast... Will you try to specialize in one element to increase synergy? Or will you favor a more balanced approach to reduce your potential weaknesses?
Features
- 12 Unlockable Characters: Each character starts in a different location on the world map and has their own personal quest and starting deck of cards.
- A Huge World to Explore: The Map has over 200 unique locations and while most encounters will change between playthroughs, knowledge of traversable routes and certain key boss locations will be preserved.
- Challenging Tactical Battles: Take on over 300 unique battle scenarios, each with their own combination of enemies and tactics to overcome.
- Intriguing Narrative Events: Make your choices carefully as some encounters can have significant consequences on your deck - both positive and negative...
- Blessings and Curses: An event might reward you with a blessing that reduces the cost of certain types of cards for several battles - or punish you with a curse that does the opposite...
- Inventory Items: Up to 4 potions or bombs can be stored in your inventory and used at any time in a battle to help give you an edge just when you need it.
- Relax and Stock Up at Inns: There are 14 unique inns hidden throughout the world, allowing you to spend your hard earned gold on new cards, items and blessings.
- Dynamic Deck Building: Each battle fought or event overcome might give you a chance to add a new card to your ever-changing deck.
- Card Durability: Your cards wear down with each use before being permanently lost, so you'll have to constantly update your deck and adapt your tactics to survive.
