Day of Demiurg

Play as a Demiurg, manipulate the power of four factions, and safeguard the equilibrium of your world.

As the Game Master, maintain balance in the roguelike turn-based strategy card game with indirect control to reconstruct the story.

Mortals fracture my world...
Greedy aristocrats poison the lands with venomous puppets. Detached neuromancers broadcast madness into the ether. Reckless engineers stoke the heat with ever-new forges. Deceptive monks halt time with their practices. This reflection is doomed to shatter. But it is within my power to maintain balance.
I am the Demiurge.

How to play

• Greatness (total influence) is the only measure of your success. You have only 20 days to accumulate as much as possible.
• Keep the influence of the factions evenly balanced; if one of them accumulates more than half or loses everything, you will fail. Overflowing the contamination capacity or expend all mana also stops the game.
• Use an additional card, change the one already selected, or discard the entire faction's hand when possible if you want. Quests expand contamination capacities but provide the factions with new cards or trigger unexpected events. Mana increases on its own at the start of each day or by using special cards.
• Your action always cost you a fiber extracted from the fabric of your world (+2 each day). You can never spend more than you have, and you will never receive any bonuses from hoarding them.

key features:

• Playing as Game Master
• Indirect сontrol
• Narrative assembly

Development plan

pre-alpha

1. Core-gameplay ✓
2. Engine and math ✓
3. Basic UI ✓
4. Playable build ✓

alpha ⚙️

1. Combo cards mechanics ✓
2. Phenomena mechanics ✓
3. Text quests and chains <-
4. Progress history and statistics
5. RPG features
6. Geography
7. Collections
8. Announcement mechanics
9. Advanced economy and  card combos
10. … and more

latest version 0.031