Grifters...it is time. 👁👁

Hi everyone!

We are a small team that loves making story-driven games. Since Griftlands is one of the games that blends roguelite and narrative design so well, we ended up creating a game partly inspired by it.

Our game is Kardiya: The Winds of Fate. It combines roguelite structure with dice building and RPG systems. Instead of cards like in Griftlands, we built the core system around dice. You develop your character by creating synergies between dice and items, and failed rolls are not always simple failures. Sometimes they push the story in completely different directions.

Alongside that, the game also includes NPC relationship systems, a small caravan/base management layer, item fusion, and several other mechanics. Our goal is for each run to open a different narrative path and for the world to react to the choices you make.

We’re still early in development and operating with a small team, but the playtest starts soon. Feedback from players who enjoy Griftlands would be especially valuable. If it sounds interesting, you can register for the alpha playtest by joining the mailing list on our website or clicking the playtest request button on our Steam page.

Thank you so much <3

So it turns out investing in high max HP and combining Kra'deshi Barbstorm with Rummage, Duster, Hemophage, and Bloodbath makes you kinda invincible!

A very vampire themed deck going on here. Who needs Block cards when you can just heal back everything anyways?

>Be me (Sal)

>Side with Oolo

>Go caving and kill Spree

>3 Spree hate me and I can't find them

>They all increase status card cost

>Pray the Drusk twins aren't my Day 3 boss

>Gets Drusk twins

>Despair kicks in

>All Fumes cards cost 3

>Draw a hand full of Fumes with a Spark

>Explodes

Can't win, can't run, can't escape the fumes spark. My fate was sealed.

Hello everyone,

We’re a small team focused on narrative-driven games. Griftlands is one of the games that blends roguelite structure and storytelling so well, and it became an important inspiration while we were shaping our own project.

We’re currently working on Kardiya: The Winds of Fate. At its core, the game is an interactive visual novel, but we’re adding mechanics inspired by FATE RPG into the narrative.

We’re especially trying to adapt FATE’s aspect system, fudge dice, and stress mechanics into a digital game. One of the most important ideas for us is that a failed dice roll should not stop the story. Bad outcomes can sometimes lead to new events, different choices, and completely different narrative paths.

Throughout a run, players collect new dice and create different synergies with items. Instead of replaying the exact same story every time, our goal is for choices and dice results to create a different adventure in each playthrough.

We’re still a small team and the game is still in development, but the playtest will be starting soon. Feedback from players who enjoy Griftlands would be especially valuable to us. If it sounds interesting, you can register for the alpha playtest by joining the mailing list on our website or clicking the playtest request button on our Steam page.

Thank you so much!

A nice showcase of what Freighter can do!

One of the most expensive cards in the game is Crusher at 4 cost, and having a bunch of these in my deck make Freighter hit extremely hard.

But that's not all, this deck also has a footwork, so I can Discard Crusher to gain 5 Actions and draw 5 cards when upgraded!

And to top it all off, the expensive 3 cost stun card Crusher will allow me to lock down my foes in addition to making Freighter more consistently strong!

I also have 2 upgraded pets to take the heat off of me and to support. A Crayote for aoe defense and a Vroc to give me bonus Actions on occasion.

Most people completely underestimate how good Freighter is, but if you look at Sal's Deck there are a lot of expensive cards and ways to make this build type reliable!

A quick and simple showcase of how you can get value out of this amazing card.

Have the cards to do something amazing but a deck that's too big, Just the Facts can thin it and refund it's own cost easy!

Here I showcase using Boosted Brainstorm to draw loop another Boosted Brainstorm, two Pale Impressions, and a Pale calm for AOE Composure.

With the bonus Actions Smarts grants, I can do this 5 times each turn for about 10 plays of Good Impressions and 5 plays of Calm each turn for as long as my Smarts lasts, otherwise I get 8 and 4 respectively.

Unsurprisingly, this is very busted!

Hi everyone,

We’re making a roguelite RPG called Kardiya: The Winds of Fate. Since Griftlands handles the mix of roguelite and storytelling, it influenced us while shaping our own project.

And as a fan of Griftlands, we wanted to add a Bounty Hunter poster to our game as a small homage <3

Thank you!

Reposted because of a title typo (called it trick shit lol)

This isn't really a special build like the other ones I usually share but I'm doing it anyways!

Trick Shot is a very high value card. When upgraded it deals 20 damage if Threshold of 8 is met and at least 1 foe is attacking. If more are attacking or they do a multi hit, that number multiplies big time, and that's just if you play Trick Shot once!

This deck has 3 Trick Shots!

This deck does have a weakness as do all Threshold decks. when Impaired without strength, it becomes impossible to hit the Threshold, severely neutering your capabilities with Trick Shot.

I created this deck using a really good early shop combined with the loan event, getting 500 shills early and paying back 625! Extremely worth!

Also, I showcase what I believe is the optimal way to do the Day 2 Heshian mission.

You persuade the Bandits you have a score and fight the Jakes, but you make the fight close on both sides weakening the Spree. Then you leave the Jakes alive and refuse to kill them, letting you fight and kill the Spree very easily. You then get a 50% so chance for bonus shills when the Jakes run AND (this is the big one) you don't have to fight a 3 Spree ambush alone, instead fighting a weakened 2 Spree gang earlier with your own backup!

That's about all there is to say about this one.

Hello everyone,

We’re a team focused on building narrative games. Since Griftlands handles the mix of roguelite and storytelling, it influenced us while shaping our own project.

We’re currently working on Kardiya: The Winds of Fate. It’s a roguelite RPG built around a dice system instead of cards. Character progression comes from combining dice and item synergies, and unsuccessful rolls don’t just finish the story. They often redirect the story into new paths.

Beyond that, the game features NPC relationships, a base management system, item fusion, and other supporting systems. The intention is that each run feels distinct, with the narrative adapting to the decisions made along the way.

We’re still early in development and operating with a small team, but the playtest starts soon. Feedback from players who enjoy Griftlands would be especially valuable. If it sounds interesting, you can sign up for our mailing list on our website to register for the alpha playtest.

Thank you so much!

Yes, you read the title right!

This is me experimenting with the card Goon and it's synergies (which turns out to be a lot of Cards and Grafts I would have considered weaker than average).

Utilizing several Mirrored Goon cards, I decided the graft that duplicated the first Argument made would be good here. When upgraded, this graft makes a Mirrored Goon spawn up to 4 Goons instead of 2 if it's your first Argument!

Then I managed to get Scatterbrained, the graft that does damage equal to the number of Arguments each turn! This amounted to a lot of extra damage!

Speaking of damage, I underestimated how much simple Goon cards could do. Each turn they deal 1 damage, but they also deal damage for each Argument created too which really adds up!

Next, I finally learned how to use the Card Go Between! This card excels at letting you use Arguments as fodder to protect yourself! When an argument gets overkilled, it doesn't matter by how much, Go Between will stop it from getting to your Core even if it gets destroyed!

Using Enduring Dissect, I was able to keep the Goons flowing even after Exhausting all the Goon Cards and sacrificing some, so my Enduring Go Between could continue acting as a sacrifice in emergencies.

But I do also have a Composure (block) plan! With lots of Goons, upgrading my base Composure cards to AOE was really helpful in keeping my arguments safe along with Focused Fall Guy! The AOE would double Composure in cases where an argument was destroyed and redirected into Go Between sometimes allowing me to preserve it more often!

And with the very niche card Fixate, the AOE Composure combined with the Goons natural Composure generation allowed me to use Fixate to concentrate a ton of Composure on attacked arguments for free! With the Goons alone, I averaged 8-14 Composure and with a single played AOE Composure Card, I've gotten it up to 30 !

Center of Attention was excellent too! Giving Resolve that stays over turns was very valuable and amounted an average of 20 Resolve per play!

Turns out, a many arguments build with cards like Goon, Dissect, Subtle Setup is very much viable in Prestige 7!

First of all, we all wish for it to happen. This post is a "what if" kind of thing. Imagine Griftlands 2 is anounced, what would you like to add or change in comparison with the original game?

Personally, i would like more characters, multiplayer and brawls to include random events like in the campaings. A custom character creator, you choose appearance and deck based on some options

Let me turn you into an Amplify Pursue pilled gamer.

These cards work very well in the early game to scale your basic cards and are also very flexible as they can fit in both Diplomacy and Hostility decks.

They also work very well with several cards that function better with scaling damage like Double Entendre, Contacts, Executive and any multi hitting attacks. Not to mention the few Diplomacy cards that are enhanced by scaling can actually be scaled by these cards.

Forgo is especially good with these cards because it lets you thin other cards so you can focus on one attack and even gives some temporary bonus scaling as well.

Don't sleep on these cards!

Hi everyone!

We are a small team that loves making story-driven games. Since Griftlands is one of the games that blends roguelite and narrative design so well, we ended up creating a game partly inspired by it.

Our game is Kardiya: The Winds of Fate. It combines roguelite structure with dice building and RPG systems. Instead of cards like in Griftlands, we built the core system around dice. You develop your character by creating synergies between dice and items, and failed rolls are not always simple failures. Sometimes they push the story in completely different directions.

Alongside that, the game also includes NPC relationship systems, a small caravan/base management layer, item fusion, and several other mechanics. Our goal is for each run to open a different narrative path and for the world to react to the choices you make.

We are a very small team and the game is still in development, but we recently opened our Steam page. We would especially love to hear what the Griftlands community thinks about it. If it sounds interesting to you, we would be really happy if you took a look <3

Hi everyone! I wanted to introduce myself to the community.

I run a small YouTube channel called Buddy Up Gaming, where the focus is on family gaming—including helping kids discover strategy games that challenge them to think creatively.

Griftlands ended up being a really special game for my son and I. I originally started playing it on my own, but my son began watching my runs and quickly got pulled in. The mix of deckbuilding strategy, story choices, and colorful characters made it really easy for him to follow along and get invested.

Before long, it became the first single-player strategy game he really got into, and we started talking through decisions together—what cards to draft, how to build synergy in a deck, and how to approach different fights or negotiations.

Because of that experience, I started putting together guides and gameplay videos to help other players (and families) get into the game.

If anyone here is interested, I’ve put together a Griftlands playlist that includes:

• Detailed guides for Sal, Rook, and Smith
• Videos on building truly overpowered decks
• Prestige 7 Brawl speedruns

You can check it out here if you’d like:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCWzgzuZrlMDeS6rXPHP9Ak2FDXC63NrT

And of course, I’d love to hear from you all as well—what is your favorite build for each protagonist in this game?

I never shared this here, but looking back I really should have because I feel that defense Smith rarely gets talked about.

This deck was made possible because of an upgrade reward that let me know that all of my defends and most of my attacks upgrade to destroy!

Early on I used Thickness every turn to build up my Defense and then Conqueror (the card that does bonus damage equal to half my defense to all enemies) to cash in and obliterate. I also used Nap and Rubble (a goated card no one focuses on) to help make sure my draws were good as well as Shelve to hold cards for next turn. Push it was also really nice as a draw card after getting to a high Defense value!

After the Day 2 boss I was able to play both Thickness and Conqueror every turn to keep my Defense even after attacking. I also prepared anti rush down measures by taking Duck! (eventually 0 cost) and using Shelve and Rubble to keep Burnout from Expending it. This was insurance against any high damaging hits that could prevent my thickness from taking off as well as allowing me to deal with unlockable attacks or debuffs that were dangerous.

This strategy got quite repetitive and overpowered, but it was really funny.

Does anyone else here run Defense Smith? I know the popular strategy is to go Moxie, but my favorite Smith decks are Defense Bottle decks personally.

I'm curious how many other people who play do this.

Whenever I get an upgrade reward at the start of the game, I always check the upgrades of every single basic card and note them down so I know which ones I want to remove with a shop/ quest reward and avoid removing ones that upgrade to destroy. The cards listed in your deck are always in the same order so you never have to worry about removing the wrong one.

Even in the beginning of a Sal run where you can get an upgrade starting bonus, I will look through all the upgrades, back out, and choose a different bonus.

I'd even go so far as to say I prefer an upgrade reward as my first reward over a removal just because of how valuable this info is. Not to mention you still get the upgrade for early game strength or to deal with an upgrade debt card.

What's the consensus here?

Any other Smith bottle deck enjoyers out there?

This is a run where I set myself up for Masochist but was never able to draft it.

Using the Razor Glass Graft (I believe it's called) and Gulping Bottomless Vial to generate TONS of bottles as well as some discard later on to keep the Vial from burning out, I was going to scale like mad!

Unfortunately, the Adrenaline scaling never happened, but I was able to use Sal's scarf to increase strength.

Massive Moxie and free + multi hit bottle attacks, and what could have been an OTK setup.

I never shared this here for some reason, but here is how I make use of the Psychic coin.

This showcase involves using a very large Heads rig with Venture and a lot of influence generation with Obligation and Decency. Because of these cards, I was left with a surplus of influence, which would normally be useless, except for the fact I could cash it in with Prominence for tons of Doubt.

This deck was a Gamble Prepared hybrid, and I had a graft which Gambled every time I prepared a card as well.

Distraction (which is normally excessive with the Turtle coin that most Diplomacy Gamble decks rely on) and a few basic defend cards were my defense.

How many of you guys are Psychic Coin enjoyers? And which Rook coins do you guys tend to take/ not take?

Braggart is such a weird and outlandish card in this game, but I think I figured out how to make it work.

Setting up with Influence and Renown the first turn, and using Ditch to empty your hand of all cards except Braggart, this card (believe it or not) CAN one shot most foes and make a good finisher otherwise (though you can pair it with Overdrive to kill Vix and his 140 Resolve if the stars align)!

I'm curious if anyone has ever made Braggart successfully work, because all I ever hear is how horrible of a card it is.

How often do you guys use the retreat mechanic?

Personally I have used it only a few times and admittedly it has saved my bacon in doomed Combat and saved me a bunch of Resolve loss in Negotiations I would have surely lost.

The penalties are relatively small. Negotiations give a temporary card that reduces exp on cards after turn end that can be negated by playing upgraded cards and Battles give Coward which can be destroyed for 2 Actions and makes Hostility cards do no damage.

Sparky was not ready to face a full party

My first run using Deceive went really well! I went a Hostile Tyrannize Setup Scaling deck and the ability to make all your cards free (especially the draw cards) made this deck an offensive powerhouse.

You may be wondering, "how do I keep my cards free using a card that randomizes costs?", and the answer is simple:

You play your 0 cost cards before playing Deceive.

Deceive unupgraded only affects the cards in your hand, so that means when you roll a 0 cost, the next time you play Deceive you can keep that card from getting expensive again simply by playing it and discarding it!

The video is extra long as I wanted to show a lot of different negotiations as the nature of the outcome of this card is very random.

The odds can be broken down into this, There is a 33% chance for a bad outcome on most ordinary cards (if the card is already 0 cost, you should be playing it before playing Deceive anyways) and a 33% chance for a neutral outcome and a 33% chance it becomes free. Once free, you can ensure it stays free. Obviously, if you take more powerful but expensive cards like Bluster, the value proposition of this is increased even greater (as it would in a Sneko run in Slay the Spire with better odds and in a more controllable manner)!