Planned Release Date: Oct 26, 2026

About This Game

Forged Cards is a roguelike deckbuilder where you don't collect cards, you make them. Take up the hammer of a journeyman smith, gather ingots and recipes, and forge cards in your deck by hand: choose its effects, temper its power, and inscribe it with conditions that turn simple strikes into engines.

Forged Cards is currently in beta

The game is content-complete and fully playable from start to finish, but we're keeping it in beta while we conduct thorough testing. Expect occasional bugs and balance changes. Your feedback directly shapes the 1.0 release.

Forge Your Own Cards

Every card starts as a mold with open slots. Slot in Casts (what it does), set its Temper (how hard it hits) and Duration (how long it lasts), then etch Inscriptions that generate and spend Flux for bonus payoffs. Found a recipe for Burn? Pair it with Damage for a unique effect.

Outsmart, Don't Outdraw

Combat is simultaneous. You see the enemy's hand — but not the order they'll play it. Arrange your three cards into positions, lock in, and watch both sides resolve in lockstep. A well-placed Block blanks their opening blow; a Vulnerable at position one supercharges everything after it. Sequencing is key.

Every Run Is Yours

• Explore random maps across 4 distinct biomes

• 30 Casts across three smithing schools: aggression, protection, and attrition. Combinable into multi-alloy cards

• Inscriptions that build lifesteal, executes, stuns, and combo engines out of simple parts

• Over 100 items, mystery events, and boss-forged molds to bend each run around

• Draft mode: build your starting deck one pick at a time

• 15 stackable Masteries for escalating difficulty, plus an uncapped Endless mode

• Fully seeded runs — share a seed, share the exact run

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Forged Cards is a passion project, built by one person. I'm not a game studio, I'm a single developer who fell in love with an idea for a deck-builder where you build the cards and set out to make it real.
Games like this usually take a team. Modern AI development tools are a big part of how one person was able to build something at this scope. I used AI coding assistants to help me build and iterate on the game's systems, AI image generation for the art, and AI-generated sound effects, all of it reviewed, edited, and shaped by me to fit the world I wanted to create. Every card, every enemy, every choice about how this game looks and feels came from a person (and some close friends) who cared about getting it right.
I'm being upfront about this because I think you deserve to know how the thing you're playing was made. Forged Cards exists because these tools let one person build a game that otherwise would have stayed an idea in a notebook.