Grimslair

Grimslair is a dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder set in a hand-painted world that changes with every run and grows more dangerous each night. You hunt monsters, collect power from their souls and build a deck to defeat The Grim Reaper—your dad—and bring your girlfriend back from the dead.

Build your deck

Blank Battle Cards let you create cards from scratch. Soulwords taken from fallen enemies modify cards with new damage, targeting, resource gains and status effects, sometimes with dangerous tradeoffs. Cards also level up through use, so your deck changes as a run progresses. You can collect more than 140 Battle Cards, most of which can be modified, along with more than 250 Soulwords and card modifiers.

Break the enemy chain

Grim deals enemy cards onto a chain with five slots. Connected cards can trigger several attacks and effects in a single turn. Playing cards charges your Chain Breaker, which you can use to shatter a connection before the full chain activates.

Explore and make choices

Each run rearranges its paths, locations, enemies and rewards. You travel through graveyards, forests, caves, deserts and frozen mountains as night approaches, choosing between safer routes and riskier territory with greater rewards. You can trade with strange vendors or kill them and take everything. You can give souls to Grim for perks or keep them to unlock more Soulwords; more than 50 perks can change a run. Time Warp cards let you turn back the clock when a choice goes wrong.

Fight with your dog

Your husky has its own cards, abilities and upgrades. You can build its deck and strengthen its attacks to make your companion part of your strategy.

Face enemies and bosses

The game features 24 unique enemies, each with special abilities, and seven unique bosses. Every card, character and piece of game art is hand-painted by the solo developer.