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Nadir: A Grimdark Deck Builder - Prologue

Nadir: A Grimdark Deck Builder - Prologue

Nadir is a roguelike deck-builder with a twist: the cost to play a card is an enemy reaction you can predict. Craft your own cards to slay powerful demons. Gather resources, expand your city, grow in power and conquer the underworld.

Released Mar 22, 2022 Developer Team Nadir, Black Eye Games Publisher Black Eye Games Platforms Windows Roguelike DeckbuilderActionRPGCard BattlerStrategy
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

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

81.5%positive216 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Perfect Great ☑ Decent Painfully Average Garbage”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Nadir: A Grimdark Deck Builder – Prologue, developed by Team Nadir and Black Eye Games and published by Black Eye Games, is a dark fantasy roguelike card battler that mixes strategic deck-building with oppressive grimdark atmosphere and surprisingly complex tactical mechanics.…”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
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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.

4achievements
13.1%median completion
10.0%rarest: Sacrifice
42.9% of players 36.4% of players 13.1% of players 10.0% of players 42.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
42.9%Thirty pieces of silver — Purchase any card in the shop
36.4%One to rule them all — Possess a Damned as a reward
13.1%Face of terror — Defeat the Beelzebub
Rarest badges of honor
10.0%Sacrifice — Play the Saint's Blood card
13.1%Face of terror — Defeat the Beelzebub
36.4%One to rule them all — Possess a Damned as a reward

Latest official news

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

Nov 08, 2022
Early Access is Available NOW!

Hello, sinners! We are proud to share with you the Early Access version of Nadir! You can finally try out all the hell circles that we prepared, with dozens of new enemies, cards, and Damneds. You are

Oct 29, 2022
The last Prologue update before the game release!

Greetings, Sinners! We have updated our free-to-play Prologue - which brings a lot of polishing touches, new features, and unlocking a lot of additional free stuff! The game is growing with content an

Oct 24, 2022
Halloween in Nadir!

Greetings, everyone! Autumn leaves cover the roads leading to hell. Nights are darker and lengthy, allowing the Filth to crawl out and disturb the land of the living. All those abominations you can me

Oct 04, 2022
Update! Work in Progress insight and hotfixes

Hello, everyone! A new update for Nadir’s Prologue just went live. We polished some of the systems in the game and introduced a few bug fixes to found and reported issues. Thank you for playing the ne

Sep 15, 2022
Double Cards Crafting Update is Live!

The biggest update of Nadir’s Prologue is already here! We’ve spent a lot of time and effort to bring you, what we believe to be the best version of our game! A lot has changed so let’s take a look at

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

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

GenresAction, Indie, RPG, Strategy
Player tagsRoguelike Deckbuilder · Action · RPG · Card Battler · Strategy · Roguelike · Card Game · Singleplayer · Turn-Based Combat · Free to Play · Turn-Based · Roguelite (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Full controller support · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , Simplified Chinese, Polish, Russian *
ControllerFull support
Achievements4
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10 Processor: 1.0 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce 8800GTX with 512MB of memory or equivalent DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 500 MB available space