Rüyn

Rüyn is the game they play at the Drunken Gnoll, an inn at the bottom of a dungeon. An ordinary poker deck, and your run on the table.

It's a roguelike dungeon crawler where you never draw a sword. You sit down, and the gnoll who runs the place teaches you the game: he lines up five cards, you lay yours under his, high card wins. Eight floors down, twenty-four regulars, from the Bomber Goblin to the Master of the House. The house is the last one you play.

The deck is an ordinary 52-card poker deck. A seven is a seven: the number on the card is its strength and its damage. Three strikes to put a regular down, and every strike is a hand.

Play the first floor right here, in your browser. The innkeeper sits you down and walks you through your first match. Three matches, no download.

The rule the whole table turns on. Your opponent lays out five lanes, some face down. You deploy one card per lane. Win a lane and you take the value of their card, plus a bonus for winning narrow: two points if you won by one, one if you won by two, nothing beyond. Dump your King on their Three and you've paid thirteen for a three. Every hand asks one question: how little can I spend and still take this lane?

Winning pays twice. Skill points climb the Mage's tree: three towers, a key at the foot of each, and you may take only one. Gold buys cards at the shop, nine of them face down. You pay before you see one, and the price climbs with every draw.

In this build

• The Wise Mage: a passive, an active, 26 skills across three towers
• 8 floors, 24 regulars, one difficulty. It's called IMPOSSIBLE
• A shop, and a deck that grows past 52
• Every run is seeded: same seed, same run. Hand a brutal one to a friend
• A skippable tutorial on the first run. English and Italiano

How finished is it?

Early access, version 0.3.0. Everything you'd play is in; the tuning isn't. Nobody has reported reaching the eighth floor yet, me included. A second class, the Ranger, is being rebuilt and returns in a later version.