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Anode Heart: Layer Null

Anode Heart: Layer Null

Isometric card battler RPG with a touch of virtual creatures, set in a futuristic, digital world, with over-the-top villains and a very shadowy plot.

Released Nov 19, 2025 Developer Stove Powered Games Platforms Windows · Mac RPGCard GameCreature CollectorCute2D
View on Steam ↗ $15.99 (US · as of 2026-05-19)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

91.8%positive233 reviews
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“Surprisingly full of love. Very much recommended, pick it up alongside a friend and have them fight you online 1v1 to see whose's deck cheeses hardest. And for a bit of criticism, which doesn't detract from my opinion that this game is absolutely worth it: This game is not too…”

— a player, Steam review · 38 hrs played
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Gameplay that feels like early hearthstone and early yugioh had a baby, and an art style that looks like the digimon world DS games. This game feels like it was made for me.”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“i uninstalled it twice before the third time the rules of the game clicked with me. then it sneakily ate a lot of my time. a lot of it was attempting to bruteforce one battle or another with a bad deck and seeing odds, adjusting a few cards at a time. fun to field test decks.…”

— a player, Steam review · 63 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.

168all-time peak
0 25 50 2025 2026 No data collected for this period 38 avg · Nov 2025

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

28achievements
35.7%median completion
8.7%rarest: Rainbow Fox
91.1% of players 87.5% of players 80.4% of players 74.6% of players 69.4% of players 68.9% of players 68.5% of players 62.3% of players 61.1% of players 54.5% of players 44.4% of players 44.1% of players 36.8% of players 36.2% of players 35.7% of players 24.1% of players 22.6% of players 22.3% of players 19.7% of players 18.3% of players 17.1% of players 15.3% of players 14.7% of players 10.8% of players 10.1% of players 9.3% of players 9.2% of players 8.7% of players 91.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
91.1%Quick Win — Win on 1st Round.
87.5%First Duel — Play your first duel.
80.4%DNA — Collect 1 Tama DNA.
Rarest badges of honor
8.7%Rainbow Fox — Play a Rainbow Vixel.
9.2%Egg — Hidden achievement
9.3%Nut Stasher — Hidden achievement

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Mar 16, 2026
v1.1.2 .: Upgrade Patch :.

Hello everyone, In this patch, I've upgraded the game's engine to the latest version, which should reduce the number of area transition crashes by a significant amount. The rendering engine has also b

Jan 01, 2026
v1.1.1 tiny QoL/tweaks patch

Hello everyone, and Happy New Year ! The biggest change in this patch is the (controller) cursor snap in battle and deck editor. There have been reports of strange issues with it on the Steam Deck, bu

Dec 12, 2025
v1.1 content (new zone) + improvements patch

Hello everyone, here's a changelog for v1.1 ; This is a postgame content update patch with some additional fixes, tweaks and improvements. If you notice anything wrong, please let me know in the comme

Nov 29, 2025
v1.0.2, tiny fixes and improvements patch

Hello everyone, here's a changelog for v1.0.2: QoL and fixes: * Added a Battle speed-up button * Card description (in battle) now shows Fusion's description when a Fusion is available * Vixee DNA auto

Nov 22, 2025
v1.0.1 small QoL/tweaks patch

Hello everyone, I hope you've had fun with v1.0! This patch brings a couple of new settings options, bugfixes and some card tweaks for underused cards and others. + Changelog + New Settings options: *

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresIndie, RPG
Player tagsRPG · Card Game · Creature Collector · Cute · 2D · Card Battler · Anime · Colorful · Isometric · Pixel Graphics · Fantasy · Futuristic (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · PvP · LAN PvP · Steam Achievements · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support
LanguagesEnglish * , Japanese * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Indonesian * *
Achievements28
Official sitehttps://anodeheart.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 8, 10 or 11 Processor: 1.1 GHz Processor Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Integrated graphics Storage: 500 MB available space