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Card Quest is a dungeon crawling adventure game with unique card combat. Play with a variety of unique character classes, and customize decks to fit your playstyle. Explore the strategic depth of tactical roguelike gameplay, and crush the undead plague.

Card Quest is a roguelike deckbuilder, card battler and rpg game developed and published by WinterSpring Games.
Released on November 07th 2017 is available on Windows and MacOS in 2 languages: English and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 353 reviews of which 302 were positive and 51 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Card Quest into these genres:

Roguelike Deckbuilder Card Battler RPG Strategy Indie Deckbuilding Card Game Rogue-like Pixel Graphics Difficult Dungeon Crawler Rogue-lite Singleplayer Replay Value 2D Retro Perma Death Turn-Based 1990's Atmospheric

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10
Processor: SSE2 instruction set support.
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX11 compatible graphics card
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 300 MB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.9+
Processor: SSE2 instruction set support.
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX10 compatible graphics card
Storage: 300 MB available space

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March 2025

It's a pretty good game. You don't build a deck as you go, but instead you unlock new equipment and each piece of gear adds a set of cards to your deck. So your deck customization is based on your gear loadout, and you keep your gear between runs. I really like the thematic elements - the character classes, adventures, and monsters are really well designed and create a nice fantasy vibe. My biggest complaint is that the battles take a really long time and making a mistake is extremely punishing. I also find the "level up" portion rather pointless. But overall cool game, I really enjoyed completing it

Nov. 2024

GREAT GREAT GREAAAAT GAME THAT DOES ITS OWN THING. In the current era where anything with cards (that isn't a TCG) must be a variation of Slay the Spire, Card Quest is different and it's a lot of fun. I'd remove the "rogue-like" tag for sure. Strangely, I'd say this plays more like a unique strategy or even puzzle game, with the replay value coming from the learning and retry you need to succeed. ------------------------ THE BASIC CONCEPT Your character may be fixed from the start of an adventure by choosing your 6 items, and it can perform quite consistently after that. The deck is built from your style/school, main hand, and off hand; each part giving around 5 cards. Plus picking armor and two trinkets; these give passives and/or quasi-consumable actives. Just a couple of trinkets end up being redundant/too weak in comparison. The way this creates variety is amazing. It's like each of the four characters has 3 or 4 subclasses that you can merge in different degrees. All, I do mean ALL, strategies are distinct and fun. The puzzle comes in because each zone presents unique enemies that might ask you to do very different things to win (especially the later ones). So, you'll sometimes get into fights that counter you terribly. Next time, you'll plan your build to beat that harsh zone. This game had me making a Word document to record details of the zones, so I could plan out the best complete paths for the different characters I wanted to win with. It was all very fun and rewarding. ------------------------ THE PROGRESSION When you beat a zone, it gives you 1 item for the character you're playing with. It was also very rewarding to discover piece by piece the vast possibilities of what each character could become. In this sense, there is meta-prgression, but I never felt like it was grinding, each item was the well deserved prize for solving an interesting fight. Also, the game does not become boring due to unlocking super powerful things. ------------------------ THE VIBE The art seemed a bit off at first, but it really ended up growing on me. It all brings a lot of flavor into what you're doing. For a game with no animations and no depiction of your character in-game, the art really pulled it off!!! It got me vividly imagining and acting how the fights might play out in real time. Weird, but even the plain black background ended up working well. It was just a nice canvas to imagine the dark forests, caves, stormy mountains, corrupted streets, roofs at night, castles, and all the atmospheric scenes suggested. Everything flows in a nice simple story that branches with your decision of which zone to explore. It all just works! ------------------------ THE BAD Card Quest does have bits of jank. Mostly issues with unclear or incomplete explanations of what items do (and plenty details that are important if you really want to plan your adventure), specially the info around buff/debuffs. I did encounter 1 or 2 mechanics with such quirky inconsistencies that I must assume they're bugged. Again, the game had me writing details about this in my Word document... but it's all worth it. ------------------------ Thank you for all the fun!

Oct. 2024

So far, so good, and better. This game might not make the most spectacular first impression, but it's made with skill, care and subtle charm, and despite being a card-based sorta-roguelite, it is most decidedly NOT a Slay clone. But given that it came out two years before Slay, perhaps this shouldn't be surprising :)

Aug. 2024

Great card game. Slay the spire didnt hook me but this did. Can be a bit grindy at times, but the reward of (PERMANENTLY) unlocking new cards and busted combos keeps you going.

July 2024

Played this way more on mobile. ~ Graphics are high-quality, according to the NES era. You might not like this. There's a remaster on the horizon, so wishlist and keep an eye out. + Gameplay is well-balanced. No deaths feel unfair. A majority of my deaths are narrow-margin, meaning I lost by 1-5 points against my favor. That's the sign of proper balance, if I qualify as a competent player. The jury's still out. + Progression is excellently balanced. The learning curve is pretty ideal all the way through the game, and few runs will feel wasted - you'll either learn something new about your character, the levels you're playing, or unlock meta-upgrades that will make your next run easier. ~ Balance tends toward meta- first. Personally I don't prefer this, as it can feel like you're progressing through the game according to the designer's whims. But these whims - they're so good! It doesn't feel infantilizing, or like a power fantasy. You'll gain power at the rate you want to gain it, if you're a roguelike kinda person.

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8.19€

8.0

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Developer

WinterSpring Games

Publisher

WinterSpring Games

Release 07 Nov 2017

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