Boardlike

Boardlike is a roguelike tabletop adventure with card-based, turn-based combat. Each run begins with a newly born hero, who rolls dice to move across a board of traps, treasures, events and enemies. You collect cards and loot, grow your character, and try to survive eight dangerous regions on the way to the end of the world.

Create a hero

You have limited breeding rights, so choose two parents and combine their traits to create a warrior. A hero’s stats, gender and genetic traits come from their bloodline. Heroes who return to the village before dying join the ancestral pool, where they can become parents or grandparents of future heroes; each generation is born a little stronger. Heroes who fall are lost permanently.

You can construct village buildings such as the Barracks, Tavern, Gold Mine and Ink Mine. Growing up in these places gives newborn heroes background bonuses and special starting advantages.

Explore the regions

Each hero travels through eight regions, each with its own atmosphere, enemies and randomly generated, turn-based board. Roll the dice to move, face strange events and bizarre enemies, and decide whether to return to the village with your loot or risk another turn for greater rewards. The game’s hand-drawn, 2D dark-fantasy world includes dozens of enemy types.

Fight with cards

Combat is turn-based and card-based. Play cards strategically to dodge, strike and survive, while accounting for stats and effects such as poison, burn, bleed resistance, dodge and evade.