About This Demo

FIVE ENCOUNTERS. HOW HIGH CAN YOU PUSH YOUR SCORE?

In Raise, Rise & Die, your cards are also your life. Sacrifice cards to fuel your reserve, choose which ones to play, and bring down your opponent without exhausting your own souls.

This demo introduces Arena: battles against monsters with automated decks, cards to earn, and decisions that shape the rest of your run.

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE DEMO

• A tutorial to learn the rules and get familiar with combat.

• Arena mode, limited to five encounters per run.

• A preset featuring Akareon, the Quantum Rosary and Sehko.

• A dedicated leaderboard for the demo’s Arena.

• Replayable runs to explore the preset’s possibilities and improve your score.

BUILD YOUR DECK. LEARN TO ASSESS THE DANGER.

Choose your next opponent from three options, earn cards, and develop your deck as you fight.

At rest, keeping a card or sacrificing it to recover HP becomes a meaningful choice. Your deck size determines your maximum health: healing can help you survive, but costs you a card that could have supported your strategy.

Five encounters to discover synergies, weigh your risks, and put your score on the leaderboard.

ONE CARD, MANY POSSIBILITIES

Every card has a Soul Value. It determines the card’s cost, the reserve it provides when sacrificed from your hand, and the HP you lose when it falls as your Top Soul.

The Top Soul is the face-up card at the top of your deck, exposed to incoming damage. When it falls, excess damage can reach the cards beneath it and trigger a cascade.

Watch your Top Soul and your opponent’s. Play your cards, keep options open, and choose your sacrifices: the engine handles the calculations. The decisions remain yours.

IN THE FULL GAME AT EARLY ACCESS LAUNCH

The demo focuses exclusively on solo Arena. Planned content for the Early Access launch includes:

Arena
Runs without the demo’s five-encounter limit, more characters and weapons to choose from, and two-player co-op.

Online Duel
Build your deck around your character and weapons, then face another player online, with matchmaking and Elo rankings.

Adventure
Travel across a map, discover illustrated locations, and encounter events tied to the world and its characters.

The Ancients’ Path — Level Editor
Create and share your own challenges: choose opponents, rules, and starting decks, then customize monsters and cards. Take on other players’ challenges solo or in two-player co-op.

BUY ONCE. UNLOCK CONTENT BY PLAYING.

The full game embraces an old-school philosophy: game modes, the editor, and unlockable skins are all part of the experience, with no additional purchases.

No DLC, gacha, or microtransactions. The game will continue to evolve throughout Early Access.

Want to go further after the demo? Wishlist Raise, Rise & Die on the full game’s Steam page.

The engine handles the calculations and resolves the effects. The decisions remain yours.

Solo developed, in dark pixel art finished by hand. The art is AI-generated as a starting point, then reworked and integrated by hand.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

The character and environment art and animations are AI-generated as a starting point (PixelLab, ComfyUI), then reworked, corrected and integrated by hand by the solo developer. The same applies to the store page visuals and marketing material. All AI-assisted content is pre-generated and finalized before the game ships — no content is generated in real time on the player's machine.