Deck of Stabs

Deck of Stabs is a roguelike deck-builder where your deck is your arsenal. Choose one of four heroes and build a deck from their collection of 60 or more weapons as you fight through five worlds filled with enemies, encounters, treasures and bosses. Runs offer different combinations of cards, skills, equipment and upgrades to experiment with.

Heroes and skills

Each hero has their own cards, mechanics, skills and strategies:

• Steelhand: overwhelm enemies with powerful weapons, stuns and brute force.
• Bladedancer: use cheap attacks, thrown weapons, poison and precision strikes.
• Runecutter: harness ancient runes and elemental energies to unleash explosive magical attacks.
• Hexrazor: curse enemies, use corpses to fuel dark magic and potentially raise the dead.

As your hero levels up, you learn unique skills that support different strategies. At level 10, you unlock an ultimate skill, such as cheating death or raising enemies as undead servants.

Cards and equipment

Discover over 250 weapon cards, learn skills, brew potions and customize cards with forge stones. Upgrades can reduce a weapon’s cost, increase its damage, add poison or make it heal you, among other options.

You can equip up to eight items from collections of weapons, armor, rings and other treasures. Items belong to sets of three; completing a set can unlock a powerful hidden ability. Potions can provide healing, armor, experience or dodging, as well as other effects from rare brews.

Five worlds

Fight through the Forest, Desert, Dungeon, Graveyard and Mountain. Each world has its own enemies and a unique boss at the end. Your Collection grows as you discover weapons, items and skills, giving you more options for future runs.

Challenges and secrets

Challenges change the rules and test your builds: you can attempt a run without items or skills, face much stronger enemies, or play with a deck you cannot cull. The game also includes secret abilities and hidden scrolls, as well as codes to crack.