An auto-battle deckbuilder of Chinese cultivation.
Easy rules, endless builds.
Hundreds of techniques, arts, artifacts and divine powers. Arrange them, then let them fight for you.
Hundreds of techniques, cultivation arts, artifacts and divine powers, each one feeding and amplifying the others.
Some players bet everything on a single legendary blade. Others stack a few cards that feed one another into a chain of strikes that will not stop. There is no right answer, only the build you put together this time.
The rules take a minute to read. Each card charges up on its own and strikes when it is ready.
The same hand in a different order can be a different outcome.
Start at Qi Refining and climb realm by realm through Foundation Building, Golden Core and Nascent Soul, all the way to ascension.
Secluded cultivation, travel, auctions and duels all cost years. When to push for the next realm and where to linger a few more years, every step has to be weighed. Each region unfolds as one great map of fate, crossed with forking roads, and the path is yours to choose. When your years run out, the journey ends.
Set out as one of six protagonists, each with their own origins and something they cannot let go of.
Your sect has a master who brings you in and fellow disciples you grew up with. Everyone you meet has a name: a polite bookkeeper who will lend you years of life, a shill in the auction crowd bidding up the price for the house. You can climb by any means. But on the day your resolve hits bottom, there is no way back.
A single-player roguelike deckbuilder set in the world of Chinese cultivation (xianxia). Before a fight you build a hand of techniques, cultivation arts, artifacts and divine powers; once it starts, each card charges up and strikes on its own, much like an auto battler. Every run deals different cards, so every build is new.
It is coming to Steam for Windows and macOS. There is no release date yet; once the store page is live you can wishlist it.
Simplified Chinese for now.
It is mainly single-player. During some tribulations you may face a build saved by another player, which is asynchronous: you never need to be online at the same time. See the Steam store page for connection requirements.
A run is one life: start at Qi Refining and climb realm by realm toward ascension, or until your lifespan runs out. Seclusion, travel, auctions and duels all cost years, and deciding how to spend them is the other half of the game.
Doze Dao Studio (发呆证道), a one-person independent game studio.
The first playtest is planned once the third major realm is complete. Wishlist it on Steam to be notified the moment it opens.
Email contact@dozedao.com.
A one-person indie game studio. The name is a small contradiction: cultivation is supposed to be hard discipline, yet a lot of things only click while you are staring into space.
The Crooked Ascent is our first game, developed by a single person and updated regularly. The first playtest is planned once the third major realm is complete. Wishlist it to hear the moment the playtest opens.
Contact: contact@dozedao.com