DANGEN Leisure and developer Bonereaders have launched BONEREADER, a story card recreation combining deckbuilding with dice-based fight, for PC.
The sport launched on August 6 by way of Steam, GOG, Humble and itch.io and is priced at $4.99.
In BONEREADER, gamers management an executed character whose soul awakens in a surreal purgatory. In search of one other probability at life, he should defeat a sequence of spirits whereas investigating the circumstances surrounding his loss of life.
Battles revolve round constructing combos between playing cards, mystical cube and collectible objects. Gamers roll cube to activate playing cards, enhance their rating and create synergies, however pushing for the next whole additionally introduces further threat.
Every spirit imposes a person “home rule” that adjustments the circumstances of the encounter. Gamers should modify their decks and techniques round these restrictions, with defeated opponents granting new cube that can be utilized in later battles.
Conversations with the spirits additionally contribute to the narrative, revealing details about the protagonist, his execution and the figures occupying the sport’s afterlife.
Steam categorizes BONEREADER as a single-player technique recreation and lists assist for English, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese language and Conventional Chinese language. Its retailer description equally identifies playing cards, cube and opponent-specific guidelines as the sport’s central methods.
A digital artbook launched alongside the sport. Based on the writer, the companion launch accommodates greater than 40 pages protecting the sport’s playing cards, cube, objects and characters, with commentary from creators Yakov Butuzov and Daria Vodyanaya. It’s accessible individually and as a part of a Collector’s Version containing the sport and artbook.
