Draft of Darkness

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Draft of Darkness is a roguelike RPG in a post-apocalyptic setting with survival horror, deck building and resource management mechanics. Choose a survivor, build your starting deck, and delve into the darkness!

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Developer:
Crawly Games
Engine:
Unity 2019
Release date:
23 August 2023
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (332)

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Description

Draft of Darkness is a roguelike RPG in a post-apocalyptic setting with survival horror, deck building and resource management mechanics. Choose a survivor, build your starting deck, and delve into the darkness!

During your journey:
  • Fight infected creatures, government robots, and other survivors in an ammo-focused turn-based card battle system.
  • Explore the post-apocalyptic city consumed by darkness. Each map is procedurally generated and unique with every run.
  • Recruit a party of survivors to help you on your journey. Each has their own deck of abilities!
  • Trade to collect better equipment and cards, which you can use to strengthen your companions.
  • Manage the darkness. The more enemies you slay, the darker and more dangerous the map becomes. However, Darkness brings rewards.
  • Make important story-based decisions. Your choices are key to progressing the story.

Unique Weapon Based Combat System

Each card in Draft of Darkness can be used by equipping a type of weapon. Determine your strategy by building unique decks combining cards from different weapon types. Each weapon has unique mechanics that can be mixed and matched for insane combos!

Explore Procedurally Generated Maps

Find friends and foes lurking deep within the dark corners of the Residence, lurking in the shadows of the Streets, or even victims of the Lair's hostility. Manage the status of your party, avoid radiation and infection at all costs!

Survive the Darkness

Delving into the dark and dungeon-like maps will see you face a variety of infected and gruesome foes. Every successful combat encounter adds to your darkness level, the higher the darkness the more dangerous the stage becomes. However, survive the darkness and you may be richly rewarded.

Every Run Matters

At the end of every run, even if you fail, you will receive credits that can be used to open booster packs to unlock new starting cards for your next run. Every death is a chance to try out new strategies!

Every Choice Matters

Draft of Darkness has a unique "meta-story progression" system, where every decision can alter the outcome of the story and allow for new ways to progress. You might try different choices on your next run, but be careful. Some have serious consequences.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS:
Windows 10
Processor:
Core i5
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
Graphics Card with 2GB RAM
Storage:
3 GB available space

recommended*

OS:
Windows 10
Processor:
Core i7
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
Graphics Card with 4GB RAM
Storage:
3 GB available space

User reviews

Jank Sinatra
Recommended | 15 Apr 2025
43.6h played

Don’t Know What I’m Doing, But Doing It Better Now Draft of Dankness is like a haunted life coach. I come in cocky. I leave humbled. Every. damn. time. I used to think “healing” was for the weak. Now I know it’s also

Helpful: 18
Kurt Russell from Soldier
Not recommended | 02 Nov 2025
3.2h played

The game as a true charm to it, and it's being supported by the developers to this day which is a great thing. After playing three hours of the game upon purchase, I don't actually want to continue playing, I think

Helpful: 15
trevormoney1
Recommended | 17 Mar 2025
9.7h played

It feels unfair that this game's total reviews are as low as they are. Easy addition to my roguelike deck builder repertoire. I don't feel like going too deep into it, especially since I haven't seen everything it has

Helpful: 13
Scopedog
Recommended | 05 Jul 2025
69.5h played

Draft of Darkness has a killer concept – what if Slay the Spire and Resident Evil had a grotesque mutant baby? It’s a shame then that it seems to have slipped under the radar, as it’s an extremely strong realisation of

Helpful: 10
Wawawa
Recommended | 05 Mar 2025
68.4h played

Amazing game, incredibly underrated, best random buy I ever did. Looked cool, sounded cool, bought it. My expectations got blown away, amazing deck building and customization, can craft pretty complex strategies and

Helpful: 8
CyperAleksi
Recommended | 27 Feb 2025
11.9h played

Hesitant recommend. There's a good amount to like here, but the jank and overall feeling of lack of balance feels off-putting enough to me not to play further. + Good ambiance + Strong theme + Intriguing story +

Helpful: 7