🎯 The Goal
Dive back into Mom’s basement to slaughter hideous monsters, hoard grotesque treasures, and ruthlessly backstab your fellow survivors to be the first player to collect four legendary Souls.
⚙️ Core Actions
Designed by Edmund McMillen, this massive collector’s edition incorporates the core card-battling engine alongside the Four Souls+ and massive Requiem expansions, using a highly interactive magic-style action stack:
- Adopt Asymmetric Personas: Begin the descent by selecting an iconic character card (including new high-risk Tainted variants) paired with a unique, unbreakable Eternal starting item.
- Navigate the Action Stack: Play Loot cards from your hand or activate items by turning them sideways. Every effect goes onto a public “stack,” giving your opponents a chance to react mid-air with their own cards to freeze your abilities, steal your assets, or redirect incoming attacks.
- Wage Grueling Dice Combat: Declare an attack on face-up monsters or risk blind-drawing from the top of the deck. Roll custom dice to hit or exceed a monster’s evasive defense value; you must continue rolling back and forth until either you or the monster is totally slain.
- Bribe, Barter, and Betray: Trade pennies at any point to secure favors, buy protection from rival item effects, or pay another player to deliberately tank their dice results during a crucial boss battle.
- Suffer Demanding Death Penalties: Failing a combat encounter or getting cursed by a rival triggers player death. While you will respawn on the next turn, you must instantly pay a steep death tax: losing a penny, discarding a loot card, destroying a treasure item, and deactivating your full board layout.
- Shift with the Global Room Deck: Utilize the Requiem expansion’s advanced Room deck, introducing massive global rules modifiers that dynamically alter item values, grant passive blessings, or unleash horrific room-wide curses that affect all players simultaneously.
🧠 Why you’ll like it
It is the ultimate, definitive manifestation of the roguelike video game’s chaotic, dark-humor spirit brought directly to the tabletop. The interaction stack turns simple card management into a glorious, tension-filled political free-for-all where no plan is ever truly safe and a winning run can be destroyed by an opponent’s spiteful play. Boasting a staggering pool of over 700 cards, incredible alternate-art warp zones, and premium tainted coins, it provides a deeply strategic, endlessly replayable party-slasher that keeps players laughing and screaming in equal measure.