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Cardness

Cardness is a card-based management and automation game. Build ingenious systems, optimize your resources, and command troops to face threats. Create autonomous machines and dominate a minimalist, strategic world.

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Wyyne
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About the Game

Cardness is a card-based sandbox combining incremental gameplay, automation, and real-time strategy. Recruit villagers, build an army, gather resources, and develop machines using your magic. Your ultimate goal: destroy the Cardness, a mysterious force that threatens your world.

A World Made of Cards

Every element in the game is represented as a card: units, resources, machines, equipment… With hundreds of unique cards, explore a rich universe and discover unexpected interactions to optimize your empire.

Gather and Automate Your Resources

  • Explore planets and collect hundreds of unique resources.

  • Use magic to automate harvesting and production.

  • Store your cards in your inventory or within other cards to optimize space.

Recruit and Command an Army

  • Turn villagers into specialized soldiers.

  • Manage your troops in RTS mode, with features tailored to Cardness' unique gameplay.

  • Fight powerful enemies and defend your strategic installations.

Forge Powerful Weapons and Spells

  • Master an advanced metallurgy system to create unique weapons.

  • Enchant your cards and factories with complex spells.

  • Combine magic and technology to develop ever more powerful machines.

Destroy, Store, and Transform Your Cards

  • Slash cards with various tools for even more discovery.

  • Transform your cards into new objects, machines, or spells to enhance your progress.

Explore an Infinite Universe of Possibilities

  • Travel across different planets, each with its own resources and challenges.

  • Unlock new card combinations for endless strategic depth.

  • Shape your own adventure and experiment without limits.

In the vastness of the cosmos, you are an Astral Spirit, an entity born before time itself. But a mysterious force has emerged: the Cardness, a cosmic plague that turns everything it touches into cards, breaking the natural order of the universe. Worlds, living beings, raw materials—all are reduced to an artificial, fragile state.

Trapped in this distorted reality, you must turn the power of the Cardness against itself. Use its cards to gather resources, build an army, and create autonomous machines. Harness magic to break its limits, craft new combinations, and forge an empire strong enough to confront the entity that trapped you in this cosmic game.

Your goal is clear: destroy the Cardness and restore the natural order of the multiverse. But be warned… the more you use it, the stronger it becomes.

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