Relapse

Roguelike· Card Game· Deckbuilding· Turn-Based Strategy

Released Oct 2022

A 3D deck building roguelike game. Collect over 240 abilities; level them up, enchant them, pair them up with over 100 trinkets, and synergize them with your companions' abilities to create endless combinations to defeat your foes.

92% positive · 178 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

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Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

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Steam Updated 12 Oct 2026 $3.99

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Evaluation

Relapse launched on October 12, 2022 and received a concentrated burst of updates in its first few months — primarily balance patches, quality-of-life improvements, and two post-launch feature updates that added ascension difficulty modes and additional unlockables (November–December 2022). After that period, activity tapered sharply: the only posts from 2023 onward are two minor localization hotfixes in August 2024 (v2.2.7 and v2.2.8), which fixed character encoding issues for certain regional users. There have been no developer communications of any kind since August 5, 2024 — nearly two years ago. Across 49 total news posts scanned, there are zero major content releases and zero announcements of planned future content. No DLC has been listed. The store description and short description describe the game as a complete, self-contained experience with a defined content scope (240+ abilities, 100+ trinkets, 170+ cosmetics). The developer has made no statements about future updates, expansions, or a content roadmap. The pattern is consistent with a game that launched as a finished product, received some early post-launch polish, and has since been complete.

Evidence

v2.2.0 — last substantial gameplay patch, removing decimal displays and rebalancing numerous abilities and trinkets

news post · Dec 7, 2022 source content shipped

medium

v2.1.0 added two more difficulty modes and additional unlock rewards

news post · Dec 2, 2022 source content shipped

medium

Media

Details

Developer

Valklabs

Publisher

Valklabs

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

—

Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Single-player

Deckbuilding Roguelike Card Game Turn-Based Strategy Roguelite Turn-Based Combat Turn-Based Tactics Strategy Card Battler Character Customization Combat 3D Fantasy Medieval Female Protagonist

About this game

Player's Turn:

Player goes first. Draw cards that each represent an ability, use them as long as you have the action points to cast them, then ready up the battle phase when you're done.

Battle Phase:

The battle phase is where the AI executes their abilities. You'll always know what actions your companions are going to do, but only an idea of what the enemy is up to. Hope you planned accordingly!

Unlockables:

Over 170+ cosmetic skins, familiars, starting abilities and starting trinkets to unlock!

Companions:

You're not alone! Summon creatures to aid you in your crusade!

Environmental Hazards:

The world around you changes as you reach new destinations on the map, influencing you to change course. Will you be greedy, or play it safe?

Victory:

Each battle, earn experience towards a chosen class, level up, claim some loot, gain new abilities!

Features:

240+ cards you can use during any run
5 decks, each specialized in different areas
5 classes to level up, unlocking newer cards as you progress
Level cards to make them stronger, each having 3 levels
Cards can be enchanted, adding completely different abilities to it
100+ trinkets to find
90 enemies
15+ companions to aid you during your crusade
170+ cosmetics to unlock
Talents - Permanent upgrades
3 acts to complete, with each node's content procedurally generated
The world map has environmental events that trigger each time you move, influencing your next choice to path towards
Negative effects persists between battles

Story:

Mankind, cursed to forever live through their destruction, only to have time reset once they've all been killed with no memory of what happened. You play as Realm, a simple peasant, who's goal is to lift the curse. Only you remember what happened between each reset. Learn, adapt, slay beasts, find loot, die, rinse and repeat!