Rüyn

Fight twenty-four monsters with a poker deck. Overkill is a waste.

Rüyn is the card game they play at the Drunken Gnoll, the only inn at the bottom of the dungeon. Every monster is a regular, every fight is a hand, and your deck is an ordinary 52-card deck: a seven is a seven.

The house rule: win a lane and you take the value of their card, plus a bonus for winning narrow. Dump a King on a Three and you've paid thirteen for a three.

Play the first floor right here, in your browser. The innkeeper deals you in and teaches you the game. Three matches, no download.

• 8 floors, 24 regulars, one difficulty. It's called IMPOSSIBLE
• The Wise Mage: 26 skills across three towers, and you may hold one key
• A shop that sells cards face down, and a deck that grows past 52
• Seeded runs: same seed, same run. Hand a brutal one to a friend
• English and Italiano. Mouse or keyboard

Early access, version 0.3.0. Everything you'd play is in; the tuning isn't. Nobody has reached the eighth floor yet, me included. The Ranger returns in a later version.