Cardpocalypse

Cardpocalypse is a single-player RPG about 10-year-old Jess, a 1990s kid whose first day at Dudsdale Elementary goes wrong when she accidentally gets the school’s favorite collectible card game banned. The students take their card battles underground, then mutants from the game invade the real world. Jess and her friends must stop them.

Explore Dudsdale

You explore the school, take on quests and investigate strange events while building card decks to defeat the mutants. Quests reward you with cards, stickers and candy, which you can collect and trade with classmates. You can also earn cards by wagering, and choices about what to pursue may mean giving up other cards.

Build and change your deck

Matches revolve around Champion cards, which have unique abilities and help shape your deck. The first player to reduce the opposing Champion’s health to zero wins. When a Champion’s health is halved, it evolves into a MEGA form with greater attack damage and new powers.

As you play, you choose house rules and conditions, rename cards and upgrade them with stickers. You can also create cards using the Mega Mutant Power Magazine. These changes are permanent, and the cards, stickers and rules you end up with depend on your choices.

Gauntlet Mode

Gauntlet Mode is a roguelike mode in which each run is different. Choose a Champion and fight through increasingly difficult battles; after each win, draft new cards, rules and rewards for your deck.

A 1990s setting

The game’s story is set in the 1990s, when computers used floppy disks and people looked to magazines for video game cheat codes. Its interactive narrative is shaped by choices.