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Roguewake

Roguewake is a spin-based pirate deckbuilder roguelite. Build a deck of synergistic symbols, turn each 5x4 board into a broadside, survive telegraphed attacks, and refine your permanent symbol pool between runs.

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About the Game

EVERY SPIN IS A BROADSIDE

Roguewake is a spin-based pirate deckbuilder roguelite where every symbol on a 5x4 board joins the fight.

Build a deck of crew, weapons, sea creatures, treasure, and curses. Make them feed, copy, consume, transform, and multiply one another—then fire the result straight into the enemy hull.

But the enemy fires back.

RIG THE ODDS

After every spin, add one of three symbols to your deck—or skip the offer to improve your choices next time.

Build around adjacency effects, delayed explosions, growing creatures, disposable cargo, poison engines, defensive crews, and rule-bending relics. A weak draw is a warning. A well-built engine turns chaos into a devastating broadside.

READ THE ENEMY

Enemy attacks are always telegraphed. You know how much damage is coming and how many spins remain before it lands.

Raise shields, repair your hull, weaken the incoming strike, stack poison, or destroy the enemy before the countdown reaches zero. Overkill damage does not carry into the next battle, so timing your strongest spin matters.

YOUR SYMBOL POOL OUTLIVES YOU

Runs reset. Your symbol pool does not.

Earn Prestige in normal runs, unlock themed symbol sets, and decide which symbols may appear in future voyages. Your pool has a fixed size: adding a new symbol means cutting another.

Progress does not come from endless stat inflation. It comes from sharper odds, cleaner synergies, and a pool built around the kind of captain you want to become.

CHART YOUR COURSE

Sail through 12 voyages with distinct enemy rosters and rule-changing final bosses. Choose from six ships, collect relics that reshape the rules, and take on four fully implemented bounty contracts with handcrafted modifiers.

No two successful decks need to look alike. Command a cannon crew, breed deep-sea monsters, weaponize treasure, spread poison, raise a ghost fleet, or build something nobody planned for.

THE SAME SEED, A DIFFERENT STORY

Daily and weekly seeded challenges give every captain the same symbol and relic pools. Play shared seeds, compare strategies, and inspect your complete build at the end of each run.

No energy system. No forced daily login. No exclusive FOMO rewards.

FEATURES

  • 150+ playable symbols across 24 themed sets

  • 250 rule-changing relics

  • A 5x4 combat board driven by your custom deck

  • Six ships and 12 normal voyages

  • Four handcrafted bounty contracts

  • Daily and weekly seeded challenges

  • Shareable seeds and end-of-run build summaries

  • Keyboard and controller navigation

  • 1x, 2x, 3x, and instant animation speeds

Build the pool. Rig the odds. Sink the fleet.

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