Five Blades Deep Demo

The first dungeon, free

This is the free demo of Five Blades Deep, a deck-building roguelike dungeon crawler. It holds a whole Dungeon Crawl run: three floors down through the Sewer and into the catacombs beneath it, with all five heroes to choose from. Explore a fresh map every floor, walk into an enemy to start a fight, and take on up to four enemies at once by playing cards from your hand while every enemy acts on its own timer.

In the demo

• Five classes - the Barbarian, Mage, Rogue, Amazon and Hunter, each with its own starting deck, its own cards to find and its own abilities to use in the dungeon.

• Build your deck as you go - defeated enemies drop card offers, and a Heal card is there when a run is running low.

• Play your hand - draw three cards, play them out, draw three more. Attacks and Defends come back around, but an ability card is gone once it's played: spend it now or save it for the boss. Don't like your hand? Throw it away, and the fewer cards you waste, the sooner you act again.

• ATB battles - every hero and enemy acts on their own timer. Watch the enemies' wind-ups and pick your moment.

• Three bosses - the Rat King and his pack, the Large Red Slime that splits when it falls, and the Skeleton King, who raises the dead. Beat one to make a card permanent, or to cut a card you don't want.

• A town between runs - take quests, stock up at the shop, rest at the inn and talk to the townspeople.

• 69 Steam achievements to earn in the Sewer.

Only in the full game

Five more dungeons, one per Blade tier (the Mountain, the Swamp, the Forest, the Prison Keep and the Demon Castle), each with its own enemies and bosses, the Demon himself at the end, over 100 achievements and Steam Cloud saves. The demo shows the Blade tiers on its menus, locked. Endless mode comes with the full release.