Shambles

Shambles combines text-based role-playing, deckbuilding and roguelike elements. Five hundred years after a devastating war ended human civilization, the bunker where a handful of survivors took refuge opens its doors. You play as one of the explorers sent to the surface, into a changed world where factions fight for control and your choices can shift events toward peace or greater chaos.

The continent of Eustea

You explore a continent with over 100 zones, moving from your current location to adjacent ones and choosing what to do in situations to complete missions. Stories conclude within zones, and hidden zones and dungeons offer opportunities to develop your character during an expedition. The world holds new civilizations, creatures and traces of forgotten ones, as well as books and journals to collect. You can record what you encounter in a pictorial book about this unfamiliar world.

Choices and consequences

As the story progresses, you face choices ranging from small turns to major decisions that can change your play style. Your choices affect the fate of the world and your expedition, which can uncover the continent’s secrets, place you at the center of a great war or end in your death. The zones you explore, along with your character’s health, equipment and stats, can also change along the way.

Card battles

Combat takes place in turn-based card battles. Build a deck and use skills and cards to attack and defend against enemies. You can develop tactics around modern weapons, a knight’s fighting style or powerful magic, combining hundreds of cards, equipment and skills.

Character development

During an expedition, you can improve your character’s stats, buy and equip gear, and unlock skills for later battles. The game includes over 300 cards and more than 200 skills and pieces of equipment, allowing for different play styles and strategies on each expedition. Some cards and equipment are only available by completing particular stories.