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The loop
An expedition is a walk through wild lands: a trail of forks, a camp fire, a guardian at the end of each act. It ends at a boss throne or at your own decision to retreat. A failed run still pays out, and the story keeps: every victory lets something rest.
Battle
Battles are turn-based on a tiled board in three-quarter view, with a turn strip that shows who acts when. Your tools are the ones tactics games were built on, and then some.
Every move is previewed tile by tile before you confirm it: how far, how high, whether anyone gets a free swing on the way. Then you choose which way to face, because a flank or a back attack hits harder, and the game says so in numbers.
High ground earns its keep. Attack from the flank and the forecast shows it before you commit.
Puddles conduct, oil burns, mist muffles. A lightning bolt into a flooded quarry is a decision, and the objective that asks you to do it is an invitation.
From Knight to Time Mage. Elements answer the land: a Fire hero fizzles in the Caldera, where the mountain shrugs off fire.
Fight together and the elements answer louder, until your party can call down a Wyrm for one decisive turn.
Hit chance, damage range, statuses, reactions, order. The test every rule has to pass: could a player have predicted this?
One anchor per corner, commands only on your turn, and a Clean, Standard or Detailed setting for how much the board shows.
The Blight is beaten by being calmed: violet motes lift from a beast, its eyes clear, and it bounds away. Fallen heroes are carried home on a swirl of leaves. Peril, yes; gore, never.
Battles play the same on every screen, from an iPhone held upright to a volume on the table in front of you on Apple Vision Pro.
The run
Choose your land at the Expedition Gate, with its guardian, its creatures and its landmarks laid out before you set out. Each act is a short trail drawn as a 3D diorama of the land, and your party's models actually walk it. At every fork you see both routes. There is no fog, no secret path, no coin flip pretending to be strategy.
Camp is the party round a fire: Rest, Train or Reinforce, and a camp story ("who handles this?"), answered by a hero's job, kin or element in a short written scene with the party's banter.
Encounters roll a mini-game or a Wild Duel, played with your real cards: a break between battles, not a second full game.
Trail encounters
Every mini-game is built on rules that already exist in battle, so nothing is a guessing game. A hero whose job suits the game plays it with a bonus.
Real-time New
A change of pace from the turn-based board: pick one hero and play them in real time down into the Blight's roots. Their job, weapon and element decide how they fight.
Cards
Every hero, weapon, relic, tactic, summon, charm and crest is a card: 285 in all, each painted for the game. Swipe across the wax and the pack tears; the cards fan out face down and flip one by one, up to a Legendary that lifts into its own light.
Eleven packs, each Element Pack in its own painted wrapper, with the contents, the odds and the pity bars shown before you open it.
The four holo tiers →The Binder keeps the whole set, with a count for every kind of card. Duplicates aren't dead stock: spares feed the Fusion Forge as shards, and favourites climb to ★5 Prismatic over months. The collection grows whether you win or lose.
The rule behind all of it: does this make a card more desirable to own or improve, without letting real money buy a specific card?
Between runs
Your party drops onto Grovehaven's main street in a puff of dust, with a name plate under each hero. Drag one to turn them; tap one to swap them out or change their kit. Below them, the Expedition Gate and everything else the village has to offer.
Eight regulars wait at the tables for a Wild Duel: a 3×3 card game with your own cards, where a higher edge flips the card beside it. Each regular unlocks after the one before is beaten, and some play house rules.
▶ Watch a duelA free gift every day, a Deal of the Day, eight Element Packs on the shelves, and the odds on a tab beside every pack. Auto-Battle, for the fights you've already mastered, is an optional in-app purchase.
See the stall →Rated Quick Matches by team power, and live or turn-by-turn matches with friends.
Inside the Arena →
