Out now in Early Access · Survival · Tower defense · 1–4 players
Last campfire standing wins.
Gather by day. Hold the line at night. And when holding isn't enough, point your deck at their rifts instead of your own, because every card that summons a monster can be aimed at somebody else's campfire.
Not sure yet? The free demo is on the same Steam page.
What you're signing up for
One fire, one night, one winner
Everyone gets an arena, a campfire and rifts of their own. Fuel decays constantly, the cold bites twice as fast after dark, and when a fire goes out that player is done.
Every card has two faces
Cast at range for mana and it resolves now. Walk to your own fire and the same card costs heat instead: stronger, exhausted for good, and its monsters queue into your enemies' next night wave.
Attack by feeding their rifts
Your deck does more than defend. Imp Raid, Bone Legion, Rampaging Brute: attack cards hit every opponent at once, either instantly or as a bigger wave that lands at nightfall.
Easy base building
Build zones sit pre-placed in your arena, with archer towers at the wall corners. Walk up, hold a key, it's built. Upgrade your base to upgrade walls and raise your heat cap.
Every match is different
Six maps, each with its own weather, resource layout, gameplay modifiers and final boss, from Frozen Hollow's brutal cold to Cinder Flats' scarce but generous ground.
A deck that grows with you
Matches earn XP. Levels grant card packs, new characters and enchant scrolls, and enchantments add build-defining variance to cards you already own.
The day, and then the night
Daylight is for chopping, mining, building and banking heat. Then the sun goes down, the rifts open, and whatever you queued into someone else's night lands on them at the same moment theirs lands on you.
Warmth drains twice as fast after dark and takes your health with it once it empties. Fuel burns off the campfire whether or not anything is attacking it. Rifts grow stronger every night, and more of them open on days 3 and 5, so a game that stalls is a game everybody loses.
Read the full breakdownThe night's draw
What a rift can send you, and roughly the order you'll meet it in.
Imps come first and never stop. Everything below them needs the rift to have grown into it — a Doom Herald cannot appear on night one at any difficulty.
An arena, after dark
Your walls, your towers, your fire — and a rift outside the gate that gets worse every night.
A taste of the deck
Six of 145. Hover a card for its mana face; the full browser lets you flip every card to its burn face, filter by effect, and read both casts side by side.
Three opponents who play three different games
Difficulty
Fill any empty seat with AI, or play a whole match against them. Bots gather, build, climb their upgrade ladders, repair their walls and aim cards at you.
Nothing about the difficulty is a damage multiplier.
No bot gets extra resources, extra vision, or a discount on anything. What changes between the tiers is judgement: when to bank heat instead of spending it, how long to stay away from the fire, which cards are worth holding. Drop the difficulty and you get an opponent who makes worse calls, playing by exactly the rules you are.
Latest patch
Arena Deckbuilder UI improvements and slight Descent adjustments
Solo against trained AI, LAN with friends over direct IP, or Steam lobbies with nobody forwarding a port.
Spirit Bomb
Mana cast
5 mana
0
0
Channel 5s, drawing energy from your ✦ Souls and every living thing in your arena — then unleash it. Souls are read, not spent. Soulsteal.
Burn cast
5 heat
0
0
Channel 10s consuming every Soul you hold, then hurl the bomb onto every enemy campfire. Soulsteal.
Keywords
Soulsteal — Gain a Soul for each unit it kills.
✦ resolves to your live Soul count when the card is in your hand — see Souls.
Enchantable with
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Effect ×1.5
Effect ×1.5
Effect ×1.5
Effect ×1.5
Last Stand
Fortify
Other
Mana cast
3 mana
0
0
For 15s your structures cannot fall — they hold at 1 HP.
Burn cast
2 heat
0
0
The first time your campfire would go out, it relights at 30% instead.
Enchantable with
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Imp Horde
Instant Attack
Legion
Mana cast
1 mana
0
0
{units}× Imp pour from enemy rifts NOW.
Burn cast
1 heat
0
0
Add {units}× Imp to enemy night legions.
Enchantable with
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Effect ×1.5
Effect ×1.5
Effect ×1.5
Effect ×1.5
Rip Essence
Spell
Souls
Mana cast
1 mana
0
0
Deal 2+✦ damage to every enemy within 5m. Soulsteal.
Burn cast
3 heat
0
0
Spend 10 Souls to shuffle a Soulblade into your deck.
Keywords
Soulsteal — Gain a Soul for each unit it kills.
✦ resolves to your live Soul count when the card is in your hand — see Souls.
Enchantable with
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Runed Masonry
Mana cast
2 mana
0
0
Your Walls and Gates repair 35% and gain +35% max HP for 30s.
Burn cast
3 heat
0
0
Your Walls and Gates stand a tier above your base for the rest of the match.
Enchantable with
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Gold Ring
Buff
Other
Mana cast
1 mana
0
0
Gain 1 gold, then Haste for 10s — effect increased for every 10 gold you carry.
Burn cast
3 heat
0
0
Shuffle a Golden Hedgehog into your deck.
Enchantable with
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Effect ×1.5
Effect ×1.5