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The Royal Writ is a roguelike deckbuilder where you command animal cards on a marching battlefield. Position units to damage enemies, but any card reaching the enemy base is permanently lost for the run. Two campaigns feature distinct hazards, bosses, relics, and evolving strategic challenges.

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Release Date

07 Aug, 2025

Publisher/Developer

Save Sloth Studios, Yogscast Games

Reviews

Steam: 80.83% positive (291/360)
Metacritic: -

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The Royal Writ

The Royal Writ is a roguelike deckbuilder where you don’t merely play cards—you command them across a battlefield. Deploy your loyal subjects onto lanes, position them with care, and watch them march toward the enemy base as they deal damage along the way. Every move is tactical, every placement a commitment… and every victory comes with a cost.

The game’s defining twist is card permadeath: if a unit reaches the enemy base before you’ve secured the win, it is destroyed permanently and removed from your deck for the rest of the run. Sacrifice isn’t a mistake—it’s a tool. Sometimes the right play is to spend a life to buy time, open a path, or set up the decisive turn. Over time, each run becomes a string of small legends, built from the subjects who didn’t make it back.

Lead an army of charming, battle-worn animals, each with distinct abilities and personality. Your ranks might include a frail wounded flamingo, a short-sighted chicken bowman, or a crafty lizard that “cheats” death by leaving only its tail behind. From renegade red ants to a sacrificial lamb, your deck becomes a living roster of heroes, liabilities, and last-ditch saviors.

Along the journey you’ll meet bizarre NPCs who may help, hinder, or simply unsettle: a crazed mantis dentist, a goat tactician, and an impatient boar shopkeeper—credentials questionable, impact undeniable. Collect relics that reshape your strategy with powerful rule-bending effects, and prepare for boss encounters with special mechanics designed to test more than raw numbers.

Conquer the realm through two distinct campaigns. The first pits you against a growing rebellion across treacherous terrain—deep pits, poison swamps, and hard choices beneath the surface of a “just” reign. The second introduces a new threat: gunpowder. Now it’s not only hazards you must navigate, but bullets—forcing fresh tactics as experimental weapons change how you advance and survive. Each campaign brings unique cards, bosses, and strategic challenges.

With intuitive controls, a gradual difficulty ladder, and additional challenge modes with special rules, The Royal Writ blends picture-book charm with medieval absurdity and dark humor—asking one question of every would-be ruler: how much will you sacrifice to secure your legacy?


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