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Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“If you're someone like me, who never really figured out card games as a kid, but are curious about getting into them? Then, I would definitely recommend. Once you've gotten a feel for the mechanics, it's peanuts, but the fights stay challenging. So, learn your cards and…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“Nadir is an okay card game, with an interesting mechanic that forces you to trigger known responses from your opponent as a cost to play your cards. Each of your cards has two sides that can alternatively be played based upon the opponent's available moves. Apparently the…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Get Nadir 35% off on the Steam Spring Sale!
Hello Sinners! The halls of Nadir are untouched by the changing nature but the Winter is slowly passing by. Let’s welcome the Spring with an opportunity to get Nadir 35% off! The Steam Spring Sale sta
Post-Launch Hotfix
Sinners! Post-Launch Hotfix just landed, addressing the most urgent issues that you reported to us. Here is the full list of changes: Quality of Life : On Steamdeck and pad, hiding the Building Tree b
Full Release and Leaving Early Access - Time to Conquest Hell!
The big day is finally here – Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder is finally out of Early Access! The armies of Hell are gathered and it’s up to you, the avatar of one of the Deadly Sins, to challenge them!
EA Update #6 and Release Date!
Hello sinners! We have multiple good news for you today. First and foremost, we can proudly announce Nadir will officially leave Early Access on February 7th ! Yeah, you saw that right, it’s Tuesday n
EA Update #5 – Flames of Heresy
Sinners! The time has come! The time to face the deepest circle of hell: Heresy . EA Update #5 is live and we’re almost at the end of the road with the Early Access development. Next week we’ll offici
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Roguelike Deckbuilder · Card Game · Card Battler · Deckbuilding · Rogue-like · RPG · Strategy · Singleplayer · Rogue-lite · City Builder · Turn-Based Combat · Horror (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Ukrainian |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 24 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10 Sp. 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i3-3210, AMD Athlon X4 640 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD 530 / Radeon HD 4850 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 3 GB available space