Rage83 HP
Barbarian
Build fury, unleash it in one blow.
physical
Coming soon to iOS
Killing Blow
Deck roguelike · Dungeon crawler card RPG
A roguelike deckbuilder for iPhone. Pick a champion, fight down the dungeon, build your deck out of whatever drops.
Seven champions
Pick who you are before you pick a card
Each champion brings their own 35-card pool, their own damage types, and one mechanic nobody else can touch. The choice changes the whole run, not the paint.
Resonance71 HP
Sorceress
Weave all three elements.
firecoldlightning
Minions65 HP
Necromancer
Raise the dead, then reap them.
poisonshadow
Bastion75 HP
Paladin
Your Block carries over.
physical
Regen68 HP
Druid
Outlast everything.
physicalpoison
Mark75 HP
Ranger
Pick a target, delete it.
physicalpoison
Combo75 HP
Rogue
Set up, then explode.
physicalpoison
And more
More champions coming soon
New champions, cards and gear arrive after launch. Unlocks add variety, never raw power — a run stays as fair on your first night as on your hundredth.
263 cards
The cards are the rulebook
Attacks, skills and powers — each one says exactly what it does, and while you hold it the enemy shows the exact total it's about to take. No dice, no fog. Upgrade a card at a campfire and it says something better.
Killing Spree
Deal 8 damage. Deal 8 more if you have 3+ Combo.
Master of Bones
At the start of each turn, a Skeleton rises.
Radiant Smite
Deal 8 damage. Deal 8 more if you have 12+ Block.
Meteor
Deal 22 fire damage. Apply 6 Burn.
Earthquake
Deal 12 damage to ALL enemies. Apply 2 Bleed.
Bullseye
Deal 8 damage 3 times. Deal 6 more if the target is Marked.
World Tree
At the start of each turn, heal 1 HP and gain 2 Block.
The arguments you'll haveBleedbleeds when it swingsBurnticks at turn endChillhits softerShockamplifies lightningPoisonticks at turn startVulnerabletakes +50%Thornsanswers every hitRegengives it back
Three acts
Every run is a map you choose your own trouble on
1The Crossroads
Before the first fight, four blessings and no skip. One of them bends the whole run; one of them is a trap you'll take anyway.
2A branching map
Monsters, elites, merchants, treasure, campfires, and a question mark you can never quite leave alone. You pick the path — a greedy line pays for itself or kills you.
3Elites that don't play fair
Immunities, thorns, armour, leeching, frenzy. Beating one is an argument you win with the right deck, not the bigger number.
4A boss that ends the act
Each one is a different question about the deck you built. Answer it and the next act scales up to meet you.
Know your enemy
103 enemy types across twelve families, and each family fights its own way. The undead shrug off poison. Wraiths shrug off steel. Elementals are immune to the element they're made of, constructs armour up and grow thorns, cultists ramp their strength every turn you leave them standing.
All of it is on screen before you commit: the next move above their head, the damage you'll deal below it.
87encounters
12elites
7bosses
Seven bosses
What waits at the bottom
Each one asks a different question about the deck you built. Answer it and the next act scales up to meet you.
Act I
The Butcher
Act I
Mother of Sorrows
Act II
The Crowned Dead
Act II
The Red Duchess
Act II
Frost Wyrm
Act III
The Blood Marshal
Act III
Heart of Rot
Beat the last one and Ascension 1 unlocks. There are twenty.
After the first win
Then it gets interesting
20 ascensions
Clear a run and the next one gets harder — tougher enemies, thinner mercy, more elites. Twenty rungs per champion, each one earned.
A daily challenge
One seed, one modifier, the same run for everyone on Earth that day. Your score goes on the board — and the board shows the people either side of you, not just ten strangers.
A collection worth filling
Every card and every piece of gear you've met, kept in one place, with the champions who found them.
Plays anywhere
The engine runs entirely on your phone — no round-trips mid-fight, no waiting on a server. Planes, tunnels and one-bar hotel wifi all work.
Questions
What people ask first
- What kind of game is Killing Blow?
- A single-player roguelike deckbuilder for iPhone. You choose a champion and fight down a branching dungeon in turn-based card battles, building a deck out of the cards, gear and potions each floor drops. Lose and the run starts over with a new map and a new deck.
- Does Killing Blow work offline?
- Yes. The whole engine runs on your phone with no server round-trips mid-fight, so runs work on a plane, on the underground, or with no wifi at all. A connection is only used to post daily challenge scores to the leaderboard.
- How many champions and cards are there?
- Seven champions, each with their own 35-card pool and one mechanic nobody else has: 263 cards, 178 pieces of gear, and 103 enemy types across three acts.
- What is there to do after you win?
- Twenty ascension rungs per champion, each one adding a difficulty modifier to the next run, plus a daily challenge — one seed and one modifier shared by every player that day, with a leaderboard.
- When is Killing Blow coming out?
- It is in development for iPhone and does not have a release date yet. Email us and we will tell you when it lands.
- How do I contact Killing Blow support?
- Email killingblow@aiapps.games with questions, bug reports, or feedback of any kind. It goes to the people who make the game.
Support & feedback
Talk to us
Questions, bugs, a card that reads wrong, or feedback of any kind — write to us. One address, read by the people who make the game.
killingblow@aiapps.games