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Death Not Guaranteed

The necromancy roguelite deckbuilder. Turn any enemy into your minion, even bosses. Destroy, resurrect, devour, strategize, and become unstoppable!

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About the Game

The necromancy roguelite deckbuilder. Turn any enemy into your minion, even bosses. Destroy, resurrect, devour, strategize, and become unstoppable!

A terrifying lich with an army of monsters has devastated your village and trapped it in an endless time loop. Master forbidden magic, raise powerful creatures, and uncover the secret to breaking the cycle!

Build an unstoppable Creature Grimoire

  • Add any enemy you defeat to your Creature Grimoire, even bosses!

  • Summon your team of creatures from your grimoire at any time - they're not shuffled into your deck

  • When your creatures die, raise them from the dead to fight again!

  • Build synergies by making your creatures devour enemies to gain their abilities!

Chart your path across 7 biomes

  • Dominate enemies unique to each biome!

  • Strategically pick the biomes that your deck is strongest against, or seek out creatures with the best synergies

  • Choose risky fights with stronger elite enemies to get greater rewards

  • Rescue a lovable pet from every biome! Choose one to tag along to get its special ability

  • Plan ahead to defeat each biome's unique boss

Craft your ideal deck of spells

  • Master new spells with a wide variety of mechanics

  • Collect powerful artifacts that change how you play

  • Purge your weakness by removing less powerful spells from your deck

Endless replayability

  • With tons of different enemies to control and spells to cast, try different strategies every run!

  • Challenge yourself with increasing difficulty in the Descent into Darkness modes

  • Experiment with creative strategies like spell-only runs!

Our game design strategy

  • Keep card descriptions short & simple. Complexity should come from finding interesting synergies between multiple cards & creatures

  • Leave room for smart players to craft overpowered synergies that "break the game"

  • And beautiful hand-drawn 4K artwork to bring it all to life! (no AI art)