Given how popular they are these days, you’ve likely played a roguelike deckbuilder or two some time recently, but have you ever played a double-deckbuilder? No, you haven’t, because they don’t exist. But fake as the term may be, developer Team Lazerbeam and publisher Devolver Digital have just announced one anyway, and a free demo on Steam shows a lot of promise, despite its made-up genre.
We’ve seen a wave of roguelike deckbuilders lately that stray from the basics of games like Slay the Spire, which boosted the genre to one of indie gaming’s biggest trends. Drop Duchy puts deckbuilding mechanics in a Tetris-inspired puzzle game, while Into the Restless Ruins uses cards to build a dungeon rather than engage in combat. The newly announced Shroom and Gloom doesn’t go quite that far, but it still treads plenty of ground that I haven’t seen in a roguelike card game before.
