The Shadow Master, a hooded figure in a cloak of dark cards, standing in a flooded crypt

Deck of Shadows

Survivors

Hold the Drowned Crypt against endless hordes. Build your deck as you level, survive four minutes, then break the Chained Wraith Queen. Far below, the Shadow Master waits.

Get the beta code I have a code

Four heroes, chosen to descend

Each hero brings their own weapons, skills and protection. The Rogue goes down first. Win a run and the next hero joins you, or buy them with the gold you carry out.

The Rogue: a hooded figure in a ragged green cloak with a bone spear and bats

Rogue

Nightblade

10% faster on their feet, and 6% of hits strike twice as hard.

Starts with Bone Spear

The Warrior: a knight in spiked black armour and a red tabard with a greatsword on one shoulder

Warrior

Grave Knight

25 more health, takes 10% less damage, and reaches 15% farther.

Starts with Gravebreaker, his greatsword

The Mystic: a silver-haired sorceress in violet with spirits at her shoulders and hexes in her hands

Mystic

Hexbinder

Casts 10% faster over 10% more ground, behind an arcane ward that soaks up blows.

Starts with Hex Lightning

The Soul Reaper: a figure in a beaked skull mask with a great scythe and a pale banshee

Soul Reaper

Grim Harvester

Reaps any monster left below 10% health, but walks in with less health.

Starts with Reaper's Scythe

The Warrior surrounded by skeletons, spiders and banshees in a chapel, facing a named elite, Murkfang the Hungry, Fire Enchanted

Hold the crypt

Drag anywhere to move. Your weapons fire on their own. Skeletons, spiders, banshees and fungal brutes pour in from every side, and the crowd only grows.

The Drowned Crypt is a real place to fight through: five areas, walls and pillars to duck behind, shrines that grant a burst of power, and named elites who each carry a curse.

A level-up: three cards dealt from the Warrior's deck, Crescent Strike, Frost Blast and Gravebreaker, with Reshuffle and Burn buttons

Your deck is your build

Before you descend, pick ten cards for your hero. Every level-up deals three of them, and you keep one.

Raise a weapon to level five next to its partner skill and the two fuse into a Shadow combo. Reshuffle a bad hand, or Burn a card so it never comes back that run.

The Chained Wraith Queen lashing her rusted chains down glowing orange lanes toward the Warrior inside her arena

The Chained Wraith Queen

Survive to four minutes and the arena seals. She lashes her chains down glowing lanes, opens whirlpools that drag you in, raises the drowned dead and sends rings of water rolling out.

Step out of the orange and swim free of the whirlpool. Below half her health, the water rises.

The Feats screen: goals like Win a run as the Rogue, each unlocking a new card

Between descents

Spend your gold on Blessings and new heroes. Chase Feats that unlock new cards, titles and card backs, and take on Challenges: runs with a twist that pay out the first time you win.

A run takes about five minutes, so there's always time for one more.

Play the beta

Deck of Shadows: Survivors is in early testing. Leave your email and the card turns over with your beta code. It plays right in your phone's browser, no download needed.

Your phone (optional)

Your email is only used for the beta. Privacy