Encounter: The Lost Cards

Encounter: The Lost Cards is a solo, turn-based roguelike in which Tarot cards shape each run. You travel through a deck of encounters rather than a traditional world map, facing events involving enemies, strangers, blessings and curses. Each draw presents a situation to resolve, and your choices determine how far you get.

Encounters and choices

Your adventure begins with a single crate. Its contents may help you or force a painful tradeoff. Along the way, you meet oddballs and outlaws and face disasters, sometimes in a difficult order. Encounters can call for a fight, a bargain, a gamble, a retreat or taking damage now to avoid something worse later.

The same card can be helpful early in a run and dangerous later. You build your stats, equipment and deck to adapt to what you draw, using flexible plans to make difficult outcomes survivable.

Combat and resources

Combat is turn-based, and every action consumes stamina or another resource. Success depends on timing, sequencing moves and using gear effectively rather than repeatedly attacking. Chaining actions into combos adds another layer of strategy.

Resources are limited: rare items break, inventory space is tight and food runs out. Taking an item usually means giving something else up, so each pickup is a commitment. You can manipulate your deck and shape flexible builds as you manage these tradeoffs.

Items and encounters

The game includes:

• Over 250 unique items
• Over 100 adaptive encounters