Ardhan

Ardhan is a single-player card game built around roguelike runs. You choose a path through branching maps, fight battles on a board of minions, taunts, weapons and hero powers, then rebuild your deck with what you earn and survive. The run’s health carries the consequences of your decisions from fight to fight.

Battles and runs

Battles turn on board position and exchanges between cards, rather than a race to deal damage. Minions trade, taunts hold the line, and weapons can be swung and broken. Each of the six acts ends with a designed boss fight. After beating the Act 4 boss, you unlock Heroic mode.

Ascension levels 1–15 add stacking difficulty. Each faction unlocks these levels separately, one at a time as you win. In the Practice Arena, you can fight any faction and any boss you have encountered without stakes.

Factions and cards

Twelve factions each have their own hero, hero power, mechanics and starter deck. Seven factions are available from the start; Undead, Demons and Beasts can be unlocked with shards earned in play or through a purchase, Vampires are sold in the shop, and Mercenaries are earned by winning Act 6.

The collection contains 421 cards: 275 minions, 127 spells and 19 weapons. You can also find 50 relics and encounter 76 map events. Ten battlefields change the rules for both players.

Collection and records

Between runs, you earn shards to craft cards and unlock factions. The deck builder lets you save decks and see their mana curve as you build. A stats screen records your totals and your ten most recent runs.

Daily challenge

The Daily Game gives everyone the same seeded map once a day. You get one attempt, and quitting counts.

Purchases and play

Ardhan is free to play, with optional in-game purchases. The shop sells shards and gold packs, extra deck slots, hero skins and card backs; purchases go through Steam, and items are not sold at random. There are no ads. The game is single-player, works offline and has no separate account; Steam needs to be running only to use the shop.

The game files include everything except the optional small download for boss cinematics, which contains each boss’s own victory and defeat scenes.