Blood & Sand: Cards of Salvation
A downloadable game for Windows
Ostracized from society, you join a roman gladiator school to escape justice. Prepare to entertain the masses by participating in epic arena fights to win your freedom, all the while earning respect, glory and recognition.
Up your game by collecting over 200 unique cards and build your deck with authentic roman weaponry and equipment.
Explore a secret colony in the southern Mediterranean with many interesting quirks and mysteries.
Form relationships with fellow fighters and spectators, helping you succeed in a hostile world.
- Card battler combat inspired by Slay the Spire
- 200+ unique cards corresponding to authentic roman gladiator equipment
- Build and upgrade your deck, corresponding to your preferences
- Unique boss fights each ingame week, with complex behaviours
- Complex time management system to prepare for fights
- Explore a fully build ancient roman colony in the southern Mediterranean
- Build & maintain relationships with fellow gladiators and spectators
- Decide over life & death by sparing your opponents or get killed yourself
Blood & Sand is a game about a gladiator fighting for Freedom in an unforgiving, unsanctioned fighting city somewhere southern.
Survive or dominate in the arena to escape your biggest haters, managing time, your deck of cards and relationships to give you the best possible odds.
Fight in stunning locations, graduating from the trainings arena to the big one for the major fights.
Measure your skill against multiple unique boss fights, with different patterns and abilities to keep you on your toes.
Explore a beautifully detailed 3D environment including your gladiator school, the Forum of an adjacent roman town and a stunning gladiator arena in its prime.
Meet characters going about their day, help some of them figure out life and see others fail.
Earn rewards and favours to help your survive this hostile environment.
At the end of each ingame week a glorious spectacle inside the grand arena awaits you. In order to beat the boss fights, you need to carefully manage the resource Time.
Many activities use up one of your time slots available each day, such that you must make crucial decisions on how to best prepare for the fight of life & death.
When you’re ready for a fight, step into the arena and face off against different Gladiators to prove your abilities.
This card battle combat was based upon genre heavy weights such as Slay the Spire.
Use your cards to attack the opponent, use them defensively to last longer, of even use Skills and special abilities to sway the fight in your favour.
Each Hand comes with a roll of dice, which if used in conjunction with your cards will boost their effect to and extraordinary amount. Upgrade your dice and combine multiple of them with a particular strong card and get ready for monster damage numbers!
Collect over 200 unique cards through quests and stores to build your ideal gladiator. Modify your weapons to suit your needs, equip authentic gladiatorial weapons to achieve victory.
Deck building is one of the most important aspects to guarantee victory over your opponents. Optimize your strategy, go out and hunt for the next best card, or visit the smith to level up your weapon and receive new ones.
Also make sure to grow continuously stronger, as your opponents will do.
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
Author | RuinForge |
Genre | Card Game, Strategy |
Tags | 3D, arena, Exploration, gladiator, Indie, rome, Singleplayer, Top-Down |
Average session | About an hour |
Languages | German, English |
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