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HELLCARD

HELLCARD

Hellcard is a unique cooperative deck builder rogue-like game. Descend into the paper dungeons on your own, recruit computer-controlled companions or join other players' lobbies in fast-paced tactical card battles against the armies of darkness and the Archdemon himself!

Released Feb 1, 2024 Developer Thing Trunk Publisher Skystone Games Platforms Windows Co-opRogue-likeCard BattlerRPGRogue-lite
View on Steam ↗ $24.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

85.9%positive3,845 reviews
Recommended · 11 found this helpful

“I love this game. But... at this moment, I can no longer play. I somehow stopped playing at 66.6 hours, and with a game name like hellcard, I cannot do the disservice of extending my time past this number. HELLCARD 2 PLEASE COME NOW!!!!!”

— a player, Steam review · 67 hrs played
Recommended · 5 found this helpful

“I really enjoyed Hellcard at first, but after completing a full run once, the progression felt slow and unmotivating. The main issue for me is that post-win progression doesn’t feel meaningful. Torment levels mostly just increase difficulty without introducing new mechanics,…”

— a player, Steam review · 27 hrs played
Not recommended · 49 found this helpful

“This is a good game. Dont get me wrong. It IS fun, and even better, has co-op that works really well. So why am I not recommending it? Is it the RNG that can go horribly bad some times? Nope, because the RNG can go in your favor at times too. Im not recommending it because its…”

— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:24 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

156playing at last check
15224-hour peak
5,595all-time peak
0 1k 2k 2024 2025 2026 1.7k avg · Feb 2023

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

83achievements
11.7%median completion
0.4%rarest: Master Generalist
80.2% of players 70.8% of players 64.3% of players 57.1% of players 52.8% of players 52.0% of players 50.5% of players 49.6% of players 49.3% of players 46.3% of players 42.3% of players 40.5% of players 37.7% of players 34.7% of players 28.8% of players 28.6% of players 27.5% of players 27.4% of players 27.2% of players 26.7% of players 26.5% of players 25.5% of players 24.4% of players 24.0% of players 23.9% of players 22.8% of players 22.1% of players 22.0% of players 21.3% of players 18.7% of players 18.1% of players 17.9% of players 17.7% of players 17.5% of players 16.3% of players 14.5% of players 13.6% of players 13.6% of players 13.4% of players 12.7% of players 11.9% of players 11.7% of players 11.5% of players 10.2% of players 9.0% of players 8.9% of players 8.0% of players 8.0% of players 7.5% of players 7.1% of players 6.4% of players 6.3% of players 6.0% of players 5.7% of players 4.5% of players 4.4% of players 4.1% of players 4.0% of players 3.7% of players 3.4% of players 80.2% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
80.2%Team Work — Deal 50 damage in one turn as a team.
70.8%Small Army — Deal 100 damage in one turn as a team.
64.3%Winner — Win a run
Rarest badges of honor
0.4%Master Generalist — Have 12 different contraptions at the same time
0.6%Goldrush — In a single adventure screen upgrade a Starter Card to a Legendary.
0.7%True Pacifist — Win a run with the Pacifist Torment modifier without killing any monster.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$24.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$24.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US24.99 USD
EU24.50 EUR
UK20.99 GBP
Australia35.99 AUD
Canada32.50 CAD
Japan2,799 JPY
Brazil69.99 BRL
China78.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$12 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia EU UK≈$28

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

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

May 29, 2026
HELLCARD II: Adventures! (Trailer)

One of the perks of the new engine is that we can make small trailers relatively quickly. With our old tech making a trailer was a months long process. And this means we can show you what we are worki

Feb 04, 2026
Free Weekend & Our Biggest Sale Ever!

Hi Everyone!Let's start the year with a solid discount and a free trial period! If you’ve been Hellcard-curious but haven't had the chance to jump in, or if you have friends you’d love to drag into th

Feb 04, 2026
A road from Hellcard to Hellcard II

Hi Everyone!As you probably already know, Hellcard II is coming later this year. In this post, I want to focus on how the lessons we learned while making the first game led directly to the new feature

Feb 03, 2026
Modding Update

This small update focuses on adding oft requested modding functionality. Full changelog:Version 1.1.260203 - 3 Feb 2026Mod Support: Fixed SetCounter function execution order for influences created via

Jan 29, 2026
About That Weird Sale & Free Weekend...

Hi Everyone!As you surely noticed strange things were afoot at Hellcard this week. We had a Free Weekend type of sale scheduled for the next week but it glitched in the backend and started early. This

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAdventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy
Player tagsCo-op · Rogue-like · Card Battler · RPG · Rogue-lite · Deckbuilding · Turn-Based Combat · Strategy · Difficult · Co-op Campaign · Dungeon Crawler · Turn-Based (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud
LanguagesEnglish * , Simplified Chinese, French, German, Polish, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Bulgarian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Ukrainian *
ControllerFull support
Achievements83
Estimated owners200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://www.return2games.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 Processor: 1.7 GHz Dual Core or Greater Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card Storage: 1500 MB available space Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible