Leavers Rift

Leavers Rift is a roguelike deckbuilder set in a surreal world changed by an anomaly called the Leavers Rift. Guided by heroes and companions, you explore its regions, encounter strange life forms and uncover stories about love, new life, fossils, and the influences of the mother and the stranger.

A world in transition

Your journey begins in the Twilight Marsh, continues through the Suffering Desert and ends in the Forest of the Remembrance, where the nature of two deities meets. You can take a direct route through dangerous lands or search remote areas for secrets. The world holds unusual limestone formations, novel resources and non-magical life forms that challenge your understanding.

The Rift tests the fate of your world, and its changes shape each chapter. Defeating a chapter’s final boss advances the story and changes the world, while the difficulty rises and the Rift’s influences grow. Journeys may begin in an open world, then lead you up mountains or across deep gorges; the Rift resists being crossed, but you can try again.

Choose a hero

Each hero has distinct abilities and ways to shape a deck:

• Legionnaire: Transform your weapon arm into a sword, shield or legendary Legionnaire's spear. Each weapon gives your actions special effects, and rust infection offers another means of attacking when your weapons are not enough.
• Sun Mantis: Create illusions of yourself and sacrifice cards for powerful effects. You can raise lost cards from the ashes and strengthen them, forming a cycle of burning and rebirth, while unlocking the powers of the suns and your abilities.
• Jinni: Balance self-destructive attacks with healing, or activate powerful reserve abilities at low life points. Draw cards to find answers to dangerous situations.
• Soul Marionette: Though its direct attacks and defenses are limited, it can form connections that drain life or apply damage-over-time debuffs. Create soulless bodies to expand the marionette, then use Unity to make every connected enemy and body feel its full strength.

Creatures and companions

The Rift is home to lost souls, creatures shaped by its influence, beings displaced from other dimensions, and animals that defy the logic of your world. The proud Formless wants to win every fight in a duel, while the Gardener seems neither dead nor alive. The Suffering Rock Screams are trapped in a fate they cannot comprehend, and Wingtails can bring new life forms into the world through non-magical behavior.

You can also meet people drawn to these realms. A blacksmith seeks wealth where there is little competition, a little alchemist is glad to find the juicy hearts that grow in strange creatures, and a shadow crawler hides a bleak fate. Sacura came to study the mysteries brought by the Rift. Recognizing these people as companions is necessary to achieve their personal goal of crossing the Leavers Rift.