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Shells is a turn-based tabletop puzzle game set in a Vienna manor. You complete a blood-soaked rite inside the RitualPyramid, slicing toward its heart while facing five shifting faces. Build a deck of Arcane Cards, manage daggers, and solve cryptic letters to uncover an ancient pact and survive.

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Shells MMCCCXXXIV

Shells MMCCCXXXIV is a solitary turn-based puzzle-driven adventure that fuses ritual horror with strategic choice. After a letter from your long‑missing cousin leads you to a decaying Vienna manor, you uncover a blood‑soaked rite etched into your family’s history. To survive, you must unravel the rite, trace your cousin’s trail, and confront an ancient power that still hungers for your bloodline.

RitualPyramid

Before you sits the RitualPyramid, a hollow, shifting cube whose five faces turn toward you as the rite deepens. Each turn you and the daggers you wield drive into openings along the surface, guiding you toward a single path that reaches the heart. When a blade finally pierces the heart, the ritual claims its owner. As you advance, more faces rotate into view, bringing new opponents and tougher trials that test wits, timing, and nerve.

Arcane Cards

Fortune is fickle, so build a deck of arcane cards to bend the ritual to your will. The cards offer powerful options, but they demand scarce resources. Some cards require sacrificing other cards, while others consume daggers you gain by wrestling control from the pyramid. Your decisions about when to gamble with a card and what to sacrifice will determine whether your deck sustains you or falters under Fortune’s mercy.

Cipher

Your cousin’s letters hint at where he went and what your lineage hides. Each note is sealed and must be opened by solving a keyword that fits into a cryptex. Clues to every word lie in a family book—a collection spanning childhood tales and myths of an ancient pact with powers beyond this world. Reading the letters becomes a vital puzzle, guiding your progress and revealing the truth behind the rite.

Experience

Shells MMCCCXXXIV is a tense, single‑player experience focused on atmosphere, deduction, and strategic resource management. Move through a narrative driven by ritual geometry, arcane cards, and cryptic clues. Each session blends puzzle solving with meaningful choices that shape the outcome as you pursue the heart of the pyramid, uncover the family’s pact, and decide the fate of your bloodline.