Transcendent Roguelike Solitaire

You have perished, but the fungal spores that suffuse your corpse cannot be destroyed so easily. After a timeless time, you return to a body, though you don’t remember if it is yours or not. You are reconstituted, but also transformed.

This game represents a risky, cyclical search for meaning in a vast and hostile mycological landscape. Your personal power is tracked in the playing cards kept in front of you. If you win the battles in the forest, your power will increase. The forest is dealt in front of you, explored, shuffled, and dealt again. Sometimes you will find what you are looking for in the forest before you die. Sometimes not.

Roguelike Solitaire

Fight monsters in the forest! Deal quick card layouts for yourself and the forest, resolve the round, do it again. The more rounds you play, the more you level up your power. When you beat the game, you could stop. Or you could mark down a transcension bonus and go around again, stronger from the start.

Inspirations

This game was inspired in equal parts by Peach Garden Games Apex Predator, the videogame genre of “idle games”, and a meme about mushrooms.

What's in the Box?

• Full color PDF for screen.
• A more sedate PDF for printing at home. The print friendly version has no background texture for pages or blocks of text, and the images have all been faded out so they don't burn out your printer. This might also be the high-contrast version.