Handfall

Every cave ends in a boss. Every fight is a hand of cards.

Handfall is a card-battling metroidvania. Run, jump and dash through side-scrolling crystal caves, and when you touch a foe the world freezes into a turn-based card battle. Win to draft new cards, find relics and abilities, and push deeper toward the boss. The caves are rebuilt every run.

Four heroes

• The Ninja chains Combos and throws Shurikens. Dash: Shadow Dash.
• The Knight stacks Block and Might and stuns what's in front of him. Dash: Shield Charge.
• The Wizard channels Spark, Frost and Void orbs. Dash: Blink.
• The Huntress marks her prey and makes it bleed. Dash: Wind Step.

Build your deck

• 103 cards: 25 for each hero plus shared rares. Upgrade them at altars and give them one of 5 enchantments.
• 52 relics from elites and bosses, plus an Ancient Boon to start every run.
• A Merchant that trades in Aether, and 10 strange events with risky choices.

Explore

• Two biomes, each with its own boss: the Forgotten Shafts and the Steam Caverns.
• Around 32 rooms per biome, with tall climbing rooms, side routes, shrines, challenge chests and a sealed vault.
• Find Double Jump and Wall Jump on ancient pedestals.
• 10 Descent levels for harder runs, unlocked hero by hero.

The Sanctuary

• A camp between runs with your records, a Codex of every card and relic you've seen, the Aether Altar and a training dummy.

Early build

Handfall is in active development; potions, a third biome and a final act are on the way. The itch.io app keeps your copy up to date automatically.

• Windows 10/11 (64-bit). Keyboard, mouse or gamepad, with every key rebindable.
• Explore: A/D move, Space jump, J strike, Shift dash, E use. Battle: click or drag cards, Enter ends the turn.

Art by LuizMelo, GrafxKid and ansimuz (CC0), CraftPix.net and Clembod. Card icons from game-icons.net (CC BY 3.0). Music by cynicmusic, haeldb and yd (CC0), sounds by Juhani Junkala (CC0). Fonts: Silkscreen and VT323 (OFL). Made with Godot.