A story‑rich, dark‑fantasy roguelike card game. Four acts, 65+ foes — your weapon is your deck, and death is permanent.
● Now in closed testing on Android · Coming to Google Play · iOS coming soon
What you're walking into
Turn-based tactics
At its core, Grim Hand is a turn-based card game with real tactical depth. Enemies hold front and back ranks behind a leader — snipe the back line with a bow, pierce through with a spear, sweep the front with an axe. Break the leader and the rest lose their nerve. Every threat is telegraphed; every turn is a decision.
Enemies
Sixty-plus foes, and none of them fight fair. Spitters poison you, casters hex your strikes, spiders web you where you stand, and shield-walls dare you to break through. Learn what each one does before it does it to you.
Weapons
Six weapons, six ways to fight. A sword sweeps the front line; a bow picks off leaders from range; a spear pierces whole ranks; a hammer shatters shields; a crossbow rewards rhythm. Each deals its own hand of cards, so swapping your steel changes how you play the entire run.
Souls
Defeat a boss and take its soul. Equip one before a run and it reshapes how you fight — the unbreakable Juggernaut, the reckless Berserker, the life-draining Lifedrinker, the elusive Evasive, and more. Nine in all; pair the right soul with the right weapon and a whole build clicks into place.
Old-school roguelike
Permadeath and procedural runs. Choose your path, fall, learn the dungeon's cruelty, and return to the mouth of the dark a little sharper.
"Another fool descends into the dark."
Curious events
Between battles, the dungeon offers you choices. Free a chained beast, bargain with a merchant who deals in blood, feed a hungry altar, or take in a stray dog to fight at your side. Dozens of branching encounters — some are gifts, some are traps, and mercy usually has a price.
Story rich
Fully narrated, start to end. An ordinary man, a desperate bounty, and a long way down into the dark. The deeper you go, the more the story turns.
The tale
For twenty-five years, Henry forged the blades that won a war. When peace finally came, the orders stopped, the forge went cold, and his children went hungry. Then word of a bounty — the warlord who holds the old dungeon, and a king's purse for his head. So the smith takes up a blade of his own and descends. Every foe he fells leaves a soul to bind to his own; every death sends him back to the mouth of the dark a little sharper. Life had dealt him a grim hand.
"No friends in the dungeon."
What waits below
Each act is its own descent — its own enemies, its own curious events, its own music and mood. Torch-lit goblin tunnels, drowned caves, a skull-lined crypt, a black wood: every one looks, sounds, and fights differently.
A fair fight
Free to start. Buy once. Yours forever.
Play the first act free. A single purchase unlocks the complete four-act story — the only purchase there is. No ads, no pay-to-win, no loot boxes, no premium currency, no energy timers. Every card, every soul, and every victory is earned by skill alone — never a wallet. Play offline, anywhere.
The descent begins
Grim Hand is in closed testing on Android now, with a wider release to Google Play to follow — and iOS coming soon after.