Taking a dystopian and strategic twist to the deckbuilding roguelike genre, the game will see players defend the last city of humankind on a perilous journey. Players will explore a feudal cityscape to make contacts, gather forces, scavenge ruins, and find valuable resources to gain an advantage over the deadly monsters threatening humanity’s existence.

When these monsters advance, the game’s challenging turn-based combat will require strategy and card drafting skill, as players build their forces with unique units, each with their own cards and capabilities. Recruit, upgrade, and deploy your forces in tactical battles against corrupt creatures.

Make hard decisions in humanity’s final city to bolster your odds. Will you break the cycle of endless descent?

As We Descend is the first game from Box Dragon, a studio founded by former Stunlock Studios developers Kevin Chang and Karl Bergström. The team is also joined by Aleks Nikonov, who previously worked at Riot Games as senior character and environment concept artist.

Coffee Stain Publishing and Box Dragon are excited to announce the new Steam Access release date for As We Descend is set for May 28th.

As well as announcing the new launch date, today Box Dragon have also pushed an update live to the game’s demo on Steam, localising As We Descend into 11 new languages, inviting more players around the world to experience the demo in their native tongue. The new languages include: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Ukrainian. As We Descend will be available in each of these languages, alongside English and Russian, when it launches into Early Access.

“We had originally planned to launch As We Descend today, but ultimately we decided that it needed a little more time in the oven to become the genre-shattering game we want to deliver to our players,” said Kevin Chang, Game Director at Box Dragon. “To that end, today we’re thrilled to announce the new launch date, alongside the demo localisations into 12 new languages, allowing more players to experience As We Descend in their own language. Now is the perfect time to try the game out if you haven’t already - we’ve got big plans, and the Early Access launch will be just the beginning!”

Key Features:

• Assemble your forces: Recruit new unit squads by utilizing scavenged technology. Each squad is a specialist archetype with its own set of cards which can be added, removed, and upgraded. Deploy the right composition of special forces in order to tailor your deck for a given battle challenge.
• Plan and strategize: The city is the last bastion of humanity and serves as your main base. Familiarize yourself with its denizens so you can survive its feudal politics and gain allies. Make the most of your limited resources so you can prepare sufficient advantages for the battlefield.
• Outsmart your foes: Against titanic enemies, you must rely on not just strength but wit. Adapt your tactics by reacting to enemy intents. Master the combat zone system: reposition your forces between the Defender Zone and the Support Zone in order to dodge enemy attacks and set up a defensive line.
• Randomized runs: Each descent is a new challenge, pitting you against a new face of the twisting world as you attempt to break through the three biomes to enter the core. New allies and encounters await you. Even if you fail, you will uncover more secrets and begin the next journey with more knowledge and tools to ever delve deeper.
• Decide the fate of the city: Hailing from one of the three great factions of the City-Vault, you hold the key to its fate amidst the post-apocalypse. Outmaneuver the medieval politics of the city and unearth its deepest secrets. As the first and last line of defense for the city walls, you must hold the line...

As We Descend is coming to PC (Steam).