AI Apocalypse

AI Apocalypse is a cyberpunk roguelike deckbuilder set years after the machine war, which the AI won. You lead one of humanity’s last free cells, a squad testing prototype weapons as it advances through the AI’s digital fortress. Each run takes you through three procedurally generated acts, where you build a deck, manage armor and shields, and face enemies, elite encounters and bosses.

Story and progression

The AI has locked humanity out of its own infrastructure. Your squad pushes deeper into its dominion, node by node, toward the AI’s final defense layer. Each act has its own enemy pools, bosses and environmental themes, while branching maps place combat, elite fights, shops, rest sites and random events along the way.

Death provides data rather than ending your progress: between runs, you unlock cards, gear and entire build paths. You choose unlocks from curated selection tokens, with no progression trees or grinding treadmills.

Weapons and builds

You can choose from three weapon classes, each with different stances, range profiles and starter cards:

• Vibro Blade: a melee weapon.
• Arc Staff: an arcane weapon.
• Rail Rifle: a ranged weapon.

Nine build paths include armor stacking, Bleed, Shield mastery, Burn, Poison, Piercing and Multi-hit. As you commit to a path, the game adapts its reward offerings to support your build. More than 140 cards and 50 gear pieces let you combine attacks, stances, status effects and equipment in different ways.

Combat systems

Your stance changes how every card behaves: Front favors aggression, Mid offers balance and Back focuses on control. Combat also depends on distance; enemies at Close range deal twice as much damage, so you can push, pull and reposition to manage the battlefield.

Armor persists between turns, while your Energy Shield refreshes each turn and absorbs both damage and incoming debuffs. Both defenses matter for surviving deeper runs. The game has three difficulty tiers: Normal, Nightmare and Hell, with Hell intended for players who have mastered every build path.