Demons of the Great Beyond

Intro

A strategic card battler where you summon demons to defeat increasingly powerful opponents. Build your deck, discover synergies, and master the art of demonic summoning!

Features

• Strategic deck building and card synergies
• 51 unique demons to discover and collect
• Demons come in one of four types - ghosts, objects, elementals and beasts - each which has certain abilities which all demons of that kind share
• 37 demons have unique abilities
• 9 opponents with hand-crafted decks
• Add or remove a card from your deck after each match
• New Game Plus mode which offers a _brutal_ challenge - and no healing between matches!
• Progress is saved, so you don't lose a run just because you have to stop playing - even you seed is saved, so you can't quite as easily save scum your way to victory
• Gallery where you can view all the demons you've seen on your adventures
• View your deck from the pause menu

Credits

The demon art was inspired by art from v3x3d
v3x3d.itch.io/bit-bonanza

Portraits by jayjay99
jayjay99.itch.io/1-bit-portraits

Music by extar
www.extar.itch.io/cthulhu-calling

Parens8 - which was vital for a game like this to fit into one cart - by Miss Mouse
www.github.com/siapran/parens-8

Special thanks to Tobias Lindell and Frida Nilsson

Rules

The game should teach itself, but if you have any specific questions, they should be answered on the pico8 submission

New game plus reward

The new game plus mode is _hard_. It requires a lot of luck and skill to get a powerful enough deck to defeat all the opponents without being slowly whittled down little by little. This is why the first player to provide video evidence of them beating new game plus gets to suggest a demon to be added to the game in their honor. (Without save scumming, that is)