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Deck building games don’t have a reputation for being scary. Publisher HypeTrain Digital and developer Morteshka have teamed up to prove that even collecting cards can be a little scary. Today they announced a cool, creepy and downright Slavic game called Black Book.

In an imaginative mix of card-based role-playing games and adventure games, Black Book takes us into the darkness of the 19th century, where we meet Vasilisa. She was destined to be a witch, but decided that she wanted to lead a normal life with her true love. Fate had other plans and took her lover from her. Now Vasilisa has to hug her witch side to reveal the seven seals of the Black Book. This demonic journal is intended to grant a wish to those who can find all seals. We are pretty sure we know what wish Vasilisa would like to grant.

This search for the seven seals, like many things, is easier said than done. This is where the card collecting part comes in. By collecting new cards, Vasilisa receives new spells for fighting enemies. Yes, there are countless enemies lurking in the Russian countryside. And demons. But the demons are actually your friends … kind of. Apparently you are free to gather a herd of demons to deliver your dark commandments, “but idle demons will torture you if you can find them nothing to do.” Can we call this a demon management game?

The demons in question are apparently a real thing. Morteshka teamed up with real anthropologists to research Northern Russian mythology and base their villains on real fairy tales. Players will expect these fairy tales and the worries and problems of ordinary Russian people. Not everything is about Vasilisa. There are also many side quests.

Everything we know about the game at the moment comes from Steam and blackbookgame.com. Although there is no set release date in sight, we can assume that we will be roaming around Russia sometime in 2020.

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Just over a year ago, developer Thing Trunk released its Book of Demons game on Steam on the desktop. More than ten years ago, practically in a different life, some of the people in charge of Book of Demons were also working on mobile titles like Captain Binary and Boogiemons. After a successful start on the desktop, the circle has come full circle, as Book of Demons is now heading for the iPad. But what is the book of demons? Well, it’s an isometric hack ‘n slash dungeon crawler that takes place in a pop-up book style world. You will do what you do in these types of games by choosing a character class, picking up quests from various townspeople, and then diving into a dungeon to beat a few nasty enemies to death. The really nice twist in Book of Demons is that everything outside of your regular old baton, like special offensive skills and healing spells, is handled through a deck that you put together with cards that you will discover during your adventures. This is a bit of an older video, but I think it does a great job of highlighting what Book of Demons is about and showing it in action.

Book of Demons is a really cool concept that has received a lot of praise on the desktop, and it seems like the perfect fit for the touchscreen too. That’s why they’re bringing it to the iPad! However, you need help. Before the launch of Book of Demons: Tablet Edition, Thing Trunk hopes to get as much feedback as possible from testers willing to try an early version of the game. If this interests you, you can find a link to the Testflight version of the game on our forums. I think it’s inevitable that whenever a game is announced for iPad-only, people will ask if an iPhone version is in the works. I imagine that Book of Demons, such a UI-heavy game, would take a lot of work to reconfigure things to still be playable on the much smaller iPhone that might not be on the cards right now. (Did you get it? In the cards?) Of course, feel free to ask this question yourself on the forum thread, but if you are an iPad owner and want to get tests, go there to find the link to the beta and to dive further in Book of Demons: Tablet Edition.

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Book of Demons is a hack-and-slash title with deck-building elements that originally left Early Access on PC in 2018. Today developers Thing Trunk announced that it will head for the iPad on February 13th, where it is called Book of Demons: Tablet Edition.

If you’re unfamiliar with Book of Demons, it is a procedurally generated dungeon crawler that allows players to determine the length of a quest using a system called Flexiscope. This essentially means that if you have a little more time, you can make a shorter dungeon, and the developers say you get similar “game flow” as someone who creates an hour-long dungeon.

By “game flow” they mean that each dungeon still has the same ratio of combat, downtime, and bosses, rather than just being shorter. If you prefer to play games with a little more risk, there is also a roguelike mode for an extra challenge. It’s great to see that Thing Trunk offers so many different ways to meet different needs.

The overall goal for players is to save the Paperverse from a powerful arch demon. The reason it’s called Paperverse is because all environments look like they’re made up of paper. It looks like a living pop-up book, and characters even move up and down South Park style, which is a nice touch.

There are three different classes you can play in: warrior, villain, and mage. Instead of weapons, you can use a deck of cards instead. There are 40 cards in the game with legendary variants for specific classes. So it’s about choosing the right cards to defeat one of the 70 different monsters.

Book of Demons: The Tablet Edition will be available in the App Store from February 13th. You can also pre-order them now if you want. It will be a premium title that will cost $ 4.99 at launch but up to $ 9.99 shortly afterwards.

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