Tome & Tile
Tome & Tile is a roguelite deckbuilder where you spell to survive. Build tile racks, place words on a power-square-strewn board, then chain tomes, enchantments, and lexicon levels into score-explosion combos. 12 characters, 181 tomes, eight chapters of escalating chaos.
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Spell to survive.
Tome & Tile is a tile-laying roguelite deckbuilder. Draw tiles, play words, and chain the right tomes, enchantments, and lexicon levels to detonate your score.
Five pillars of compounding chaos Every run, you stack five overlapping scoring systems that interlock in beautiful, broken ways:
Lexicon Levels — every word you play levels up its category, permanently boosting your score
Tile Values — upgrade the raw chip values of letters in your bag
Board Modifiers — change the rules of the board itself
Tile Enchantments — bolt effects onto specific tiles
Tomes — 181 unique passive abilities that fire on the right conditions
The fun isn't picking the best one — it's stitching all five into one absurd engine.
Twelve characters, twelve ways to break the game
Each character ships with a unique tile bag, a different fight cadence, and a twist mechanic that rewires how you play.
Eight chapters. Twenty-four fights. Infinite mode if you survive.
Each chapter ends with an Act — a boss fight that wants you dead. Push past chapter 8 and the gloves come off.
Features
Seeded runs for sharing wild victories
Per-character mastery levels (0–10) with skins, bags, and challenges
Codex tracking everything you've discovered
Single-player. No mics. No microtransactions. Just words.
