Draft of Darkness

Draft of Darkness is a roguelike RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world, combining survival horror, deck building and resource management. You choose a survivor, build a starting deck and venture into darkness, making story decisions that can change how the story unfolds.

Explore the city

You explore procedurally generated maps across a city consumed by darkness. The Residence, the Streets and the Lair hold friends, foes and victims of the Lair’s hostility. You manage your party’s status and avoid radiation and infection.

Fight and manage darkness

Combat uses an ammo-focused, turn-based card system. Each card is used by equipping a weapon type, and you can build decks that combine cards from different weapon types. Weapons have distinct mechanics that can be mixed and matched to create combos. You face infected creatures, government robots and other survivors.

Each successful combat encounter increases your darkness level, making the stage more dangerous. Darkness can also bring rewards, and surviving its dangers may earn you a rich reward.

Recruit and equip survivors

You can recruit other survivors to join your party. Each has a deck of abilities, and you can trade to collect better equipment and cards to strengthen your companions.

Choices and progression

Your story-based decisions affect the outcome and can open new ways to progress. Choices can have serious consequences, and you can try different ones on another run.

At the end of each run, including runs that end in failure, you receive credits to open booster packs and unlock new starting cards for future runs. Each new run gives you a chance to try different strategies.