Release Date 20 Oct 2025 on Steam
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Release Date 20 Oct 2025 on Steam 〰️
Will you break the curse or burn the oath?
A New Genre: Battle Card Tactics
Dolven introduces a groundbreaking genre in the world of video card games by seamlessly merging classic card combo mechanics with dynamic character-based combat.
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At its core, Dolven is a tactical dungeon-crawling RPG infused with Poker style Card Combo’s
This fusion of poker-like deck mechanics with RPG-style tactical combat creates a new kind of gameplay loop. Dolven isn't just a card game. It's a Card Combat RPG, and it's redefining how card-based strategy can play out in a rich, character-driven world.
Gameplay Loop
Build a team of archetype-based mercenaries
Craft a custom deck of rune-powered cards.
Dive into dungeon-crawling biomes, each with unique enemies and tactical challenges.
Use strategic card combos on a grid-based battlefield to trigger abilities, generate mana, and outplay your foes.
Collect gear tailored to your characters, adapt your strategy as enemies grow stronger, and make critical choices that shape the story and lead to one of six possible endings.
Card Mechanics
Simple mouse controller, drag and drop cards from your hand to the pillars or the characters on the grid.
BLUE Mercenary cards are played on the pillars.
The top right circle of the mercenary card indicates its rune value and archetype. The suits are colored red for strength, blue for intelligence and green for dexterity.
GOLD Spell cards are played on characters or tiles.
Cards cost Mana to play. Cost is indicated in the circle at the top left of the cards. Cards can be purchased with your mana.
Unlike traditional card games, Dolven doesn’t stop at deck strategy. Each character in your Party AND your Deck brings unique skills tied to one of three archetypes. Strength, Dexterity, or Intelligence.
The result is a thrilling hybrid experience where tactical positioning, clever card combos, and character synergy all matter.
Grid Column Mechanic
Dolven battles take place on a grid.
Each set of 4 pillars are attached to a column on the grid. When you play a card such as the Balan or Pyros card as shown here, the corresponding column is affected by the synergy including all characters positioned on that column.
Being strategic with card placement is twofold. Strategically place cards to affect characters in the column and to form your card combo hands.
DOLVENS RICH NARRATIVE
In the shadowed lands of Dolven, something ancient stirs beneath the soil, an unseen force at work is having a devasting impact on the people of Dolven. You step into this world not as a savior, but as part of a mercenary band tasked with protecting those few who still stand against the darkness.
A missing child. A trail of strange beasts. What begins as a simple mission spirals into a desperate struggle to uncover truths buried under generations of silence.
As the land shifts and long-forgotten oaths awaken, each step forward unearths more questions. What is the Darkstrand? Who truly holds power in Dolven? And what must be sacrificed to break the chains that bind this cursed town?
The answers lie in the choices you make and the cards you play.
LORE OF DOLVEN
Dolven is a land known as The Decaying Isles. It is shaped by forgotten royalty, fractured oaths, and ancient forces that linger.
Legends tell of three prophecies to come. Each one promising salvation, destruction, or something far more complicated.
The Darkstrand, is more than just a curse, it is a legacy. Its origins are tied to a bloodline few remember and a pact too terrible to name.
The veteran mercenaries who roam these lands have long held their silence, bound by sacred oaths older than the town itself. Now, with ancient evils on the rise and loyalty tested by shadows from the past, the time for secrecy is ending.
Dolven is not merely cursed—it is at a crossroads. And every choice and sacrifice will shape the story to come.
