Blessed To Die

ABOUT THIS GAME

Blessed To Die is a tactical deck-building rogue-lite where every decision carries weight, and every life is expendable.

Lead a struggling kingdom on the edge of ruin. Recruit fighters across twenty classes, grow your city, and send squads of three into branching regional missions. In combat, you won’t react,  you’ll predict: queue commands for each hero, commit your round, and watch it unfold in initiative order.

STRATEGY OVER REFLEX

Combat is built around prediction, planning, and consequence:

• Draw from a shared hand; queue plays onto each fighter (order matters)

• Enemy intents are hidden until you scout or learn their patterns

• Actions resolve in initiative order, fast actors can kill or disable before slow ones act

• AP is tight; wrong targets and dead enemies can waste your plan

Every round is a gamble between calculated risk and brutal punishment.

BUILD YOUR TEAM… AND YOUR LEGACY

Your city is more than a hub, it’s long-term strategy:

• Recruit across guilds with unique class lines and starting cards

• Promote survivors to veterans; injuries and divinity persist on each character

• Hire trainers to shape future recruits and advisors to unlock decrees and special missions

• Upgrade buildings, pay monthly wages, and manage renown and threat

• When threat peaks, raids hit your home, you'll need to assign defenders and fight for your buildings

Will you protect your strongest units… or risk them for greater rewards?

RUN-DEFINING BLESSINGS

Before each mission, your characters receive powerful, game-altering Blessings:

• Double attacks, turn manipulation, or rule-breaking effects

• High-risk tradeoffs that can make, or ruin, a run

• Synergies that reshape entire strategies

Some Blessings feel unstoppable. Others are ticking time bombs.

DEEP, FLEXIBLE DECK-BUILDING

Craft your strategy from a large pool of command cards:

• One shared party deck - city unlocks plus each member’s class cards

• Build around synergy, tempo, or raw power; swap and upgrade cards on mission rewards

• Manage hand size, AP, statuses, and equipment

• Accept that sometimes… your deck will betray you

No two runs play the same.

A WORLD THAT FIGHTS BACK

Every mission is a branching journey filled with danger:

• Combat, elites, bosses, merchants, campfires, and divinity-weighted events

• Regions with distinct enemies and road layouts

• Retreat costs progress; victory merges loot into your kingdom

Meanwhile, threat rises at home. Ignore the threat of raids, and lose buildings, stash, and the advisors you depended on.

KEY FEATURES

• Initiative-driven tactical combat — plan the round, resolve the timeline

• Hidden enemy intents — scout, observe, and learn AI patterns

• Persistent roster — veterans, injuries, divinity, nicknames, permanent death

• Build variety — command cards, items, blessings, 20 classes

• City meta — guilds, decrees, economy, and raid defense

• Risk-driven choices — events, ambushes, reward refuses, and mission abort penalties

DEATH IS PART OF THE PLAN

You will lose characters.
You will lose missions.
You will defend your kingdom — or watch sites fall in raid after raid.

But every failure teaches you something — and every new run is another chance to master the system.

Plan carefully. Adapt quickly. And accept that some are truly… Blessed To Die.