Dekrawler

Dekrawler is a single-player dungeon crawler played with a deck of cards. Each room is four cards on the table. Every suit does something different: one arms you, one heals you, and two of them are trying to kill you. You choose what to fight, what to drink and what to leave behind, and whatever you leave behind follows you deeper.

It is built on the mechanics of Scoundrel, designed by Zach Gage and Kurt Bieg, and takes its progression ideas from games like Balatro and Slay the Spire.

How it plays

You clear rooms of four cards until the deck runs out. The core loop is close to Scoundrel, but it starts with a few more tricks and keeps adding to them: joker cards, artifacts, different deck types, and suits that do not exist in a standard deck. The faster you clear a level, the more meta currency you earn to spend before the next run.

A run takes just a few minutes. Mouse only.

Running it

Download the Dekrawler.zip, extract the whole folder, and run Dekrawler.exe.

What this build is

This is an early development build. I put it together to share with a small group of testers, but anyone who wants to play is welcome.

What I am mainly after is feedback on balance and progression: which level felt unfair, which one felt flat, and where you stopped understanding what the game wanted from you. There is no audio, no art and no effects yet; everything on screen is interface drawn in code.

Getting in touch

The comments section at the bottom of this page is the easiest place to reach me. Bug reports, balance complaints and “I had no idea what to do here” are all equally useful. For anything longer, or for collaboration, you can write to me at my e-mail address, kaanc5528(at)gmail(dot)com (@ and . are written like that to be protected from bots.).

AI disclosure

Generative AI was used while building this game, for text and UI work only. All mechanics and game design elements are human-crafted.

Thank you to anyone who gives this game a shot. I hope it holds up even at this early stage.