Rune Gate

Rune Gate is a deck-building roguelite in which you command the bridge guard against enemies pouring through a breached gate. You assemble a team of champions, build their decks and customize cards by inserting elemental runes.

Customize your cards

Runes determine cards’ power and utility, letting you build synergies across your deck. Attack runes can increase damage, draw or energy runes can support utility cards, and debuff runes can turn cards into curses. Upgrading a card adds a new rune slot. The game features nearly 200 runes, each with its own abilities and constraints. You can acquire them by winning combats, crafting them from lower-tier runes, or finding them in encounters and merchant inventories.

Lead your champions

You lead a party of champions against adversaries. Each champion wields a specific weapon type and uses unique runes; each weapon type has its own deck and card set for strategic deck-building. There are 18 champions, with three from each elemental type, allowing for different team compositions and strategies.

Gear and augments

Combat can reward you with gear and augments as well as runes. Gear improves champions’ offensive and defensive capabilities and includes runes for further customization. Augments give champions unique buffs during combat.

Summon followers

Followers are another type of gear that you can summon as allies in battle. Each has its own set of cards, which you can customize with runes, and can support your strategy in the mid to late game.

Progress between runs

You earn Fame through combat across different realms. Spend it to permanently unlock specific runes, giving you advantages in future runs.