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Oaken
Oaken, a turn-based tactical roguelike set in the spirit inhabited world. Explore the Great Oak, gather allies and trinkets, learn to use the positioning for your advantage, choose how to upgrade your cards. Wake the spirits and save the Oak!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-19.
“Oaken is a unique roguelike deckbuilder playing out on a hex grid. It was more interesting in concept than in practice for me, unfortunately. It got boring pretty quickly despite the nice visuals.”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“This one really just didn't click for me right off the bat like many roguelikes do. It just doesn't feel that good on introduction into the game, and is both sluggish and confusing, and not the good kind of confusing. I will probably try it again someday.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“English / Français Tldr : Strongly Recommanded : For 100% Achievement hunt IF you like the vibe. (5$ - 30h) NOT Recommanded IF : You only play 1 run and leave the game. Résumé : Fortement Recommandé : Pour faire le 100% succès SI vous aimez l'ambiance du jeu. (5€ - 30h) NON…”
— a player, Steam review · 29 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 21:11 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
We are working on a new game!
Hey Spirits, we have some very exciting news to share with you! For the past couple of years, we’ve been pouring our hearts into a brand new project, and we are finally ready to reveal it to the world
Oaken Update 1.1.7 🦖
Hey Spirits, we have improved some stuff for you yet again! This time we focused on improving general text quality and readability on smaller screens - with focus on Steamdeck gameplay. And also made
Oaken at the Turn-Based Carnival!
Hello everyone, Exciting news! We're part of the Turn-Based Carnival happening from November 14 to 21, where you can enjoy a whole week of turn-based strategy games. Don't miss out on the chance to gr
Modding contest and giveway!
Hi spirits, As you may know, Oaken now supports modding, and we cannot wait to see more of your creativity! 🏆 Take part in our modding contest Thanks to our partner Overwolf, who allowed us to add mod
Oaken Hotfix 1.1.1 🍒
Hey Spirits, a small bugfix just landed for Oaken, enjoy! 🍒 Added the missing localization for the Level Editor, especially in CN. Fixed bugs: - trinkets that grant Reach should now always work proper
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-19.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Turn-Based Tactics · Card Battler · Singleplayer · Rogue-lite · Fantasy · Hex Grid · Turn-Based Strategy · Board Game · Turn-Based · Creature Collector · Colorful · RPG (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 57 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.lakistudios.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista Processor: Intel Core i5 650 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Geforce GTS 450 Storage: 2000 MB available space