Planned Release Date: Sep 26, 2025

About This Game

“That Time I Found A Box” is a roguelike deckbuilder where cards are blank slates for you to build, upgrade and modify as you like. Choose carefully when to play them and when / how to improve them.

Discover what’s possible with deep strategic card building and deck building resulting in vanishingly rare moments of there being only one obvious play available.

Choose your allies, have some fun and create game-breaking cards!... And most importantly, be able to put the box down and get out alive.

Features

• Innovative Card Effect System: Cards are like blank slates. Card Effects can be randomly or purposely added to Cards. Each time you play a Card, one Card Effect is sealed and will no longer trigger when played. Card effects can be unsealed by upgrading or combining Cards, or by using various unique Card Effects.

• Many ways to manipulate Cards: combine Cards in the Combiner, upgrade Cards in the Vault, place Cards at max tier in the Ascender to rebirth them at tier 0, choose Unique Card Effects when a Card triggers a Tier Up Bonus by reaching tier 5 or 10, play Cards with powerful Card Effects that modify Cards in your Hand, and many more!

• You control what's in your deck: Add or remove Cards from the Card Pool, from which a random card is added to your Deck each turn. Don't like a card or no longer need it? Place it in the Randomiser to change it to something more useful (hopefully). And many more ways to get cards with card effects that you want, and remove those that you don't.

• Survive and thrive: strategically build your cards and deck to leverage powerful interactions while gaining favour to make allies and progress. Tactically balance being opportunistic with upgrades and keeping everyone happy. Falling behind may hinder progress and ultimately lead to your downfall!

• Perks change up gameplay and unlock new strategies: Unlock perks during runs and assign them before starting a new run. Perks may give bonuses but may have downsides. But the downsides might turn into upsides depending on other Perks! Have fun!

Content

• 25+ perks to change up gameplay between runs.

• 50+ Card Effects to mix and match.

• 25+ Tier Up Bonus options.

• Play board with 7 different ways to play or manipulate cards (Play Spaces, the Vault, the Combiner, the Randomiser, the Duplicator, and Ascenders Persist and Split).

• 3 phases to complete a run (make an Ally, turn an Enemy into an Ally, defeat the last Enemy)

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Voice overs during game intro sequence.
Some card art.
Some sound effects.