Deck Forge

Deck Forge is a roguelike card battler built around one brutal constraint: your entire deck serves triple duty — attack, defense, and currency. The King of Spades, you need to block that hit? It's also 13 gold at the shop. The Ace you want to sacrifice for a relic? You might need it to survive the next turn.

Start with a standard 52-card poker deck. Fight through a branching map of escalating encounters. Reshape your deck after every fight — upgrade, fuse, split, engrave, or shatter cards at the Card Surgery Table. Collect relics that fundamentally change how you play. Then face Death Majestic.

Every run plays differently. A flush-focused Hearts build plays nothing like a Gambler's Edge low-value rush or a diamond sustain engine. With 70 Runes, four classes, and full deck modification, the combinations run deep.

Key features:

• Four classes, four engines — the Warden, the Glutton, the Necromancer, and the Berserker each start with their own HP, hand size, and a signature skill that reshapes the whole run. Earn them through play.
• The Intent Band — combat resolves on a speed-based timeline. You and every enemy place actions on one shared band that plays out left to right, so a quick shield can slip in ahead of a blow a sword couldn't beat. Order and timing are everything.
• Triple-use cards — every card is your attack, your defense, AND the currency you sacrifice at Rituals to bind new power. One resource, three demands.
• A full 52-card poker deck as your starting point — not custom cards.
• The Card Forge — Temper, Recast, Engrave, Fuse, Split, Shatter, Quench, or Blood Pact your cards into exactly the deck your build needs.
• 70 Runes with wildly different playstyles — 12 to start, 58 more unlock as you play.46 enemies across 5 tiers — 30 foes, 12 elites, and 4 bosses, each with their own intent patterns and suit defenses.
• 3 branching maps with Rituals and elite encounters.
• Reproducible runs — every run rolls a seed that drives every shuffle, lineup, and reward. Same seed, same choices, same run — shareable down to the card.
• Healing is rare — your HP is your most precious resource.

Inspired by Slay the Spire with a pinch of Balatro. Built in Python/Pygame by WastedRoll.