Panacle: Back to Wild

Panacle: Back to Wild is a single-player card game that combines war chess, roguelike gameplay and deck building. You command a battlefield squad, choosing its members, tactics and command deck. Its combat centers on an original Tactical Position mechanic, with characters and cards designed around it, in a hardcore science-fiction future setting.

Story mode

Story mode uses roguelike runs with random map routes, random enemies and some random side stories. The story is divided into chapters. Your squad, tactics and deck are locked for the duration of a chapter, and losing any level means failing the whole chapter. Choose a route based on the enemy information and your situation.

Exploration mode

Exploration is an endless deck-building mode. After each victory, you can build and adjust your team, tactics and deck, strengthening your squad as you continue. Enemies grow stronger as you progress, and you cannot know exactly which ones you will meet next. During an exploration, collected characters and cards can help form a temporary team; characters and cards you have not collected may also join it.

Training and trust

Training mode lets you try predefined squads, tactics and command decks, including ones you do not own. You can also customize combat parameters to test different strategies.

The trust system is the game's only training system outside battles. Each time you take a collected character into battle, your trust with them grows. At a high enough trust level, your partner can randomly gain extra abilities during combat.

Weather and props

Story and Exploration modes include weather that follows established rules but appears randomly. It affects combat performance and can change how a battle unfolds. Props in these modes can improve your combat experience or help you out of trouble.