About This Game

Cards That Vanish When Used

Every card is consumable: play it once and it is gone forever. You don't "build" a deck. You decide when and where to spend a finite supply of cards. Every move carries weight, the way scrolls and wands do in a classic roguelike.

Into a Picture Book Someone Stopped Drawing

You are inside a picture book someone stopped drawing. The ink has dried, the story has stopped mid-page, and the people in it are slowly being forgotten. Two guardians of living stationery travel 99 pages to win the lost tale back.

Two Guardians

Choose two of the four guardians to form a party of two, each with their own HP, level, and equipment. Ways to bring a fallen ally back are few. Save that revival item, or use it now? As the bond between the pair deepens, new paths open in both story and battle.

Growth & Equipment

Defeat enemies to level up. Equip a sword (attack), a shield (defense), and a bookmark (special effects), then upgrade and engrave them at the smithy. Cards, gear, and your gold all have to work together if you want to reach the depths.

99 Floors, and What Waits at the Bottom

Clear one picture book and the next one opens, and beyond them all lies a dungeon 99 floors deep. Every book ends with a boss of its own. And on the deepest page, something is waiting for the two of you. You'll only find out what it is at journey's end.

A World of Ink and Watercolor

Pencil lines, bleeding ink, and washes of watercolor: a storybook world that changes its colors page by page, and mirrors the sorrow of a tale fading away.

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AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Generative AI tools were used during development. No content is generated by AI while you play.

- Art: the in-game artwork (characters, enemies, backgrounds, card and item illustrations, comic panels, UI decorations and some effects) and the artwork used on the store page and in the trailer were created with generative AI image tools. The developer directed and selected every image.
- Translation: the game is written in Japanese. All 16 other languages (English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, German, French, Polish, Ukrainian and Italian) were translated with AI. The Simplified Chinese text was later revised with corrections from players. Feedback on unnatural wording is always welcome.
- Code: AI coding assistants were used during implementation. Design decisions were made by the developer.

Music and sound effects are not AI-generated (licensed free music, CC0 sound libraries, and sounds the developer synthesized in code).