About This Game

BE THE LAST ONE ON THE BENCHES

Sauna Grudge is a single-player roguelike deckbuilder about Finland's least relaxing sauna tour. Choose your cards, read your opponents' intentions, and make sure somebody else leaves first.

Every rival has two weaknesses: endurance and dignity. Drain either to send them packing. The same applies to you.

Moving to the lower bench halves incoming endurance damage but doubles incoming dignity damage. Sometimes the sensible move is also the embarrassing one.

BUILD YOUR DECK. READ THE ROOM.

Attack your rivals' Sisu (physical endurance) or Häpy (social dignity), and protect both of your own. Opponents reveal their next moves, giving you a chance to plan your hand and choose your targets before they act.

Add cards, upgrade them, and collect relics as you travel. Throw löyly (water on the hot stones), swing a vihta (birch whisk), or open the door and upset everyone. Heat can also clog your deck with bad sauna cards, so surviving the next turn is only part of the problem.

TEN STOPS. THREE QUESTIONABLE VOLUNTEERS.

Choose Pekka, Sandra, or Jarmo and take on a ten-stop route across Finland, with local events and increasingly unreasonable opponents. Each character brings different stats and starting cards. Between runs, spend Sausage Points on permanent upgrades and work towards the harder difficulty levels.

PERKELE IS A MECHANIC

The PERKELE action sits outside your deck. Spend one of its limited uses for extra Action Points and protection from the next opponent penalties. Useful when your carefully considered plan needs shouting at.

WHAT'S IN THE SAUNA

• Three characters with different starting decks and strengths.
  
• Ten destinations across Finland.
  
• Cards, upgrades and relics to shape your run.
  
• Visible enemy intentions and encounters with several rivals at once.
  
• Permanent upgrades and three difficulty levels: Normal, Ascended and Godlike.
  
• English interface and text, with Finnish and Finglish voice barks and adult humour.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

This game uses generative AI during development to create some pre-generated visual artwork, character imagery, sound effects, music, and voice-processing assets. Generative AI is not used at runtime: players cannot generate, modify, or upload AI-generated content in the game.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Contains mild adult humour, sauna-related innuendo, coarse Finnish expressions, and references to alcohol. No explicit sexual content, graphic violence, or real-money gambling.