Renegades

Renegades is a turn-based party card battler about five fugitives crossing the kingdom of Valdris, where unsanctioned magic is outlawed and the people who once held the frontier together are now being hunted. Your party did not set out to save the world; its members defected, survived and kept moving. You choose three of the five renegades for each battle and use their individual decks to face enemies whose intentions are visible.

Plan each battle

The three characters share one hand of three cards and three actions per turn. Each card resolves as soon as you play it, with no hidden rolls or surprise damage. At the end of your turn, enemies act in the order they revealed. Inspect a foe’s ledger to see its attack, target and reason, then block, taunt it toward someone who can take the hit, redirect the attack or defeat the attacker first.

The five renegades have distinct roles: Hyperion holds the line with Retaliate, Solyn wards and breaks enemies, Faide marks targets and redirects attacks, Luciana primes and detonates, and Xarion turns blood into power. Your chosen trio determines what the shared hand can do and withstand, whether you build around shields, marks or hexes.

Earn card upgrades

Each battle gives your party an Opportunity: a challenge for one hero and one card. Challenges include dealing ten damage to a single foe in one round, absorbing fifteen damage with Block or detonating two stacks at once. Complete the challenge to earn an upgrade draft for that card after the fight; upgrades change what a card does rather than simply increasing its numbers.

Each level also offers a choice of one milestone from three, with one milestone on each hero’s discipline rail. Your choice changes how that hero fights, not just how hard they hit.

Shape your decks

Shaping Stones appear along the road, and each can be visited once. Reforge a card into a new form, refine it by removing one trait—good or bad—and accept the result, or destroy a card you no longer want to draw. Keeping decks small is useful in fights.

Events, defeats and hard bargains can add temporary emotion cards to a character’s deck, including Hope, Shame, Vengeance and Grief. What the party experiences becomes part of what it shuffles.

Cross the Greenveil

Choose your route across the Greenveil on a map where dangers are visible. Points of Interest may hold supplies, shrines or worse. Two rare threats roam by their own rules: Provost Tallis follows his registry circuit by daylight and does not chase anyone, so you must intercept him to claim what he carries. Old Ashmaw hunts at night, follows your lanterns from a distance and can only be driven off by dawn once it commits.

Face the five trials

The forest holds five trials, one for each renegade: the captain Hyperion swore to, the sisters who buried Solyn’s staff, the rival who taught Faide the routes, the brand Luciana’s brother tried to cut away, and the shard in Xarion’s chest. Survive three trials to open the sealed temple.