Nowhere Prophet

Nowhere Prophet is a single-player card game set on Soma, a distant planet devastated by the Crash, a complete technological collapse. You play a powerful leader and mystic with technopathy—the ability to sense and affect electrical currents—and guide a convoy of outcasts and refugees across the wastelands toward the mysterious Crypt, which promises untainted technology and safety. The game combines travel across procedurally generated maps with turn-based card combat, and features high difficulty and permadeath.

The world and your convoy

Many years after the Crash, civilization has broken down and scarce resources have driven people to become bandits or madmen. Inspired by Indian culture, the world follows a convoy of desperate men and women who share your vision of a better future. Along the way, you encounter strange places and people, and face situations that put your followers’ fate in your hands.

Travel the wastelands

Each game generates a new map for you to navigate. Choose a route while making sure your convoy has enough resources to keep moving. You can gain rewards by helping people or robbing them, then invest those rewards in improving your decks, recruiting followers, equipping your prophet, or learning skills that unlock stronger action cards.

Turn-based card combat

Some encounters require you to fight to protect your convoy and resources; you can also choose to fight for righteousness or loot. In battle, play convoy cards to deploy and position followers, or use action cards to change the battlefield. Wounds can leave you needing to find a safe place to heal, and a follower who takes too many wounds is lost permanently.

Cards and progression

Recruiting followers adds more units and variety to your battles, while improving your decks helps prepare you for the journey. The game includes more than 300 cards to discover, and unlockable content across multiple playthroughs. Its soundtrack features Indian-influenced electronica.