Retromine
Retromine is an ultra-satisfying tough-as-nails deckbuilding roguelike. Delve into the caves, mine resources, and escape before the caverns collapse! Spend your ore to buy new cards, upgrade your deck, and discover powerful combos on your way to the bottom of the world. Dig, die, learn, repeat!
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DIG TO THE CORE OF THE EARTH
Retromine is an ultra-satisfying, highly replayable, tough-as-nails deckbuilding roguelike. Delve into the caves, mine resources, and escape before the caverns collapse! Spend ore to buy new cards, upgrade your deck, and discover powerful synergies on your way to the bottom of the world.
PLAY CARDS, MINE RESOURCES
SPEND YOUR ORE, POWER UP
CREATE EARTH-SHATTERING COMBOS
A FRESH TAKE
Retromine is a brand new roguelike deckbuilding experience for fans who love the genre, but find their favorite games growing stale.
GAMEPLAY
Roguelike deckbuilding: Delve into the mines, play cards to mine resources, and escape with your life - then use those resources to buy new cards, upgrade your deck, and power up!
Strike a perfect balance: Survive by mining scorium to narrowly escape danger, get stronger by mining ore to buy new cards
Discover powerful synergies: Unearth super-powered synergies and exploit game breaking combos
Test your mettle: Challenge yourself and put your decision making and problem solving abilities to the test
Enter flow state: Unwind with an experience expressly created to place you in a state of meditative deep focus
FEATURES
Dig your way to mastery: Collect over 100 unique resource, tool, action, and ability cards to use on your expeditions
Shape your run: Harness the strengths of over 10 unique power cards to change the way you play
Unlock passive abilities: Play ability cards to gain impactful passives that transform gameplay to suit your playstyle
Immerse yourself: Tunnel through a curious subterranean fantasy beneath a classic retro-pixel aesthetic
Dreamy, hypnotic synthwave: Relax with over 40 minutes of soothing synthwave music by Airglow
DIG, DIE, LEARN, REPEAT!
Enjoy infinite procedurally generated content in a game specifically designed for endless replayability.
