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About Heroes of Magic & Cards

Heroes of Magic & Cards is a single player role playing game with a fantasy theme. It was developed by First Day Games and was released on March 19, 2026. It received positive reviews from players.

Build the perfect deck, draw the perfect hand, and strike down your enemies with pairs and straights. Heroes of Magic & Cards is a roguelike deckbuilder with a poker twist, sending you and your fifty-two into a mystical fantasy world of monsters and magecraft! OVERVIEW Heroes of Magic and Cards is an inventive deckbuilding poker roguelike that rewards both careful buildcrafting and poker ski…

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87%Audience ScoreBased on 54 reviews
graphics1 positive mentions
gameplay3 negative mentions

  • Unique blend of deckbuilding and poker mechanics offers deep strategic gameplay and rewarding synergies.
  • Well-balanced and thoughtfully designed with multiple characters and playstyles that appeal to fans of Slay the Spire and card roguelikes.
  • Frequent developer updates and fast bug fixes demonstrate good support; the game runs well on platforms like Steam Deck.
  • Limited content and variety with only three characters and relatively few unlockables can reduce replay value.
  • Some bosses and Act 3 fights are overly long, difficult, or feel unbalanced, leading to frustration and tedious gameplay.
  • Certain bugs remain unresolved that affect gameplay negatively, such as skill malfunctions and occasional RNG issues.
  • gameplay

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, 17% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The gameplay is a fresh take on deck-building, blending Slay the Spire's structure with unique poker-style hand mechanics that add strategic depth. It features straightforward and enjoyable mechanics, including fun side games, and offers a balanced challenge without excessive frustration. However, some users feel the card mechanics could be utilized more fully.

    • “Straightforward game mechanics, fun little side games, and doesn't feel as frustrating as some other similar card battlers can at times.”
    • “The game basically plays its routing like Slay the Spire, but the card mechanics being poker-style hands make it really stand out since through your abilities and relics you get to choose just how poker hand focused it becomes.”
    • “Not enough use of the card mechanics.”
    • “This game is essentially Slay the Spire but with enough difference in the mechanics for it to feel fresh.”
    • “The game basically plays its routing like Slay the Spire, but the card mechanics being poker style hands makes it really stand out since through your abilities and relics you get to choose just how poker hand focused it becomes.”
  • grinding

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game can feel slow and tedious, especially since most enemies don't scale and players often grind to accumulate health and gold to dominate runs. Bugs that force combat restarts further impact the experience, though fixing these could greatly improve enjoyment.

    • “Most enemies don't scale and you can obtain health and gold by playing cards, so the game rewards grinding it out until you can buy out the shop and trivialize the run.”
    • “If they can fix the current bugs, I'm 100% re-buying because this game is awesome, but since it affects directly the run, it's kind of tedious to restart combat because of this issue that can be fixed.”
    • “It can be slow and tedious at times.”
  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Replayability is limited, primarily offering value through mastering wins with the three available characters.

    • “Not a whole lot of replay value, beyond winning with the 3 characters.”
  • graphics

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game features a distinctive pixel art style that is visually appealing and full of character.

    • “This game has a great pixel art style with plenty of personality.”
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Play Times

10h Median play time
10h Average play time
10-10h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 1 analyzed playthroughs
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Heroes of Magic & Cards is a role playing game with fantasy theme. Common tags for Heroes of Magic & Cards include indie, card battler, roguelite, choices matter, pixel graphics and others.

Heroes of Magic & Cards is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 10 hours playing Heroes of Magic & Cards.

Heroes of Magic & Cards was released on March 19, 2026.

Heroes of Magic & Cards was developed by First Day Games.

Heroes of Magic & Cards has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Heroes of Magic & Cards for its graphics but disliked it for its gameplay.

Heroes of Magic & Cards is a single player game.

Similar games include Poker Quest, SpellRogue, Dice & Fold, Roguebook, Die in the Dungeon and others.