Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

BUILD A COLLECTION THAT WORKS FOR YOU

In The Archive Project, you play as a young Archivist summoned to a city striving for renewal. Travel across different worlds, open booster packs, and collect new cards to complete your Album, fill the Archive Hall, and help the city grow. Every discovery expands your collection and becomes a lasting source of progression.

Set in a gothic fantasy world, card collecting meets idle strategy: develop your city, improve your cards and combine several permanent systems to build an increasingly powerful economy.

OPEN, COLLECT AND PERFECT

Discover hundreds of illustrated cards across many sets. Every pack contains six cards, and every acquisition can join your collection as one of five variants: Normal, Shiny, Full Art, Gold or Cosmic.

- Complete the cards, families and variants of each set.

- Automatically turn true duplicates into Dust.

- Earn XP, Gems and Orbs as your collection grows.

- Inspect your cards in detail and select favorites to personalize your profile.

DEVELOP YOUR CITY

Your city is the heart of your progression. Upgrade six buildings up to level 20 to increase production, strengthen collection rewards and gain access to new systems.

Improve the Mine to generate more Gold, expand the Archive, unlock further opportunities through the Portal, and invest in the Workshop, Research Center and Manor.

TURN YOUR ALBUM INTO POWER

Every step forward in the Album improves your overall progression. Complete families, gather the variants of each set and earn permanent bonuses that can amplify your Gold, Dust and future pack openings.

Your collection is never just an inventory: every card can contribute to your economy and your next strategic decision.

SHAPE YOUR CARDS IN THE WORKSHOP

Use the resources you have accumulated to customize and strengthen your collection:

- craft new cards and premium variants;

- permanently improve their Power and Gold production;

- inscribe or reroll their effects;

- convert Gems and Orbs into higher-tier resources.

CHART YOUR PATH THROUGH MORE THAN 300 TALENTS

Develop a vast constellation dedicated to Gold, Dust, Cards, Workshop, Expeditions and the Monolith. Choose your priorities, unlock new rings of talents and shape your progression around the strategy you want to pursue.

ASSEMBLE YOUR EXPEDITION TEAMS

Send your cards on missions with different durations and difficulty levels. Your team’s Power determines the quality of the outcome and the rewards earned, including Gold, Dust, XP, Gems, Orbs and others resources.

Your cards are never consumed. They remain part of your collection while contributing to your expedition strategy.

CURATE YOUR OWN MUSEUM

Forge and collect relics inspired by the game’s different worlds. Every relic has its own rarity, quality, prefixes and suffixes, creating distinct combinations that influence your economy.

Display up to nine relics, optimize their bonuses and dismantle the ones you no longer need to recover Relic Fragments. Trophies earned through achievements also have their own dedicated exhibition space.

AWAKEN THE MONOLITH

Select sixteen cards from your collection and build a complete composition. Rarities, families, sets and variants can work together to activate bonuses and resonances that influence your entire progression.

Create multiple compositions, save your presets and adapt the Monolith to the goals you are pursuing.

A DEEP, INTERCONNECTED IDLE PROGRESSION

In The Archive Project, every system feeds into the next. Card packs expand the Album, the Album strengthens your economy, the city opens new possibilities, and your cards gain further purpose through the Workshop, Expeditions, Museum and Monolith.

Track your journey through detailed statistics, unlock achievements, personalize your profile and patiently build an archive that reflects your own strategy.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Most of the card artwork and background images are made with AI (I'm a poor solo guy working full-time).