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Cardaclysm
Developer Elder Games
Face the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in epic card battles! Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four is a procedurally generated collectible card game mixed with action RPG elements. Collect creature and spell cards throughout your journey and unleash their power if anyone opposes you! From the Steam store page
195 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon) · newest Aug 5, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
65
Fresh
127 positive · 67 negative
95% range 59–72%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
380 of 576 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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60 of 195 · most liked firstIt's got some interesting ideas, but it feels half-baked. Feels like a very early, though polished, early access game. The overworld itself is static and uninteresting to explore. Enemies stay in a specific spot, often blocking a path, and you can even inspect them to see what you're up against before deciding to engage. But really there's no reason for this to be a whole 3d zone that you run around in. It's just a waste of your time. The only exception is that once you kill every enemy on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34633003-Gaming-Masterpieces/lists/] Gaming Masterpieces - The greatest games of all time on Steam. Can't get enough of these addictive card battlers? Then this is just what you need. It just crawled out of Early Access on 26 February after seven major updates, and has already got three (smaller) post-launch updates. We take on the role of a dark wizard whose last summoning went slightly wrong. We thought we could control the Four…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would love playing this game, but in the current state it is only grief. Pros: 1. Randomly generated levels. 2. Challenging AI. 3. Lots of cards. 4. Lots of customization. 5. Lots of items. Cons: 1. Very poor balancing. 2. Ridiculous casting resources, aka cap for the entire battle instead per turn resource regen. 3. Only 14 cards deck, Seriously!? 4. No card discard (what the hell O.o) - so if you draw only spells you die, if your draw and your hand is full with non-usable cards you die,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cardaclysm is not so much a game as it is a smashed-together, unfinished series of systems: • Card battles which wish they were a series of back-and-forth turns but are basically all determined by your starting hand. • A weird isometric exploration game which almost entirely exists to waste time between battles. • A single-player CCG with NPC trading/quest systems, though the NPC trades are insanely random (and barely function given the limited card pool) and the quests are pointless and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The GRIND is INSANE! Dont be fooled. The devs answer complaints about the grind like this: You can trade in cards you dont need for the cards you need. There is exactly one trader that offers you after every mission three random cards of random uniqness. Each at 50, 75 or 100 stones depending on the power of the card. Now first you rarely get any cards you need to optimize your deck secondly after making a run throguh a level to get surplus cards you exchange those cards for 10 maybe 15…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have no idea what this game tries to be. Dungeon crawler? Collectible card game? Roguelike? According to the tags, RPG and card battler? All at once without commiting to anything, that's the best guess I can make. You have a character - if that makes a game an RPG, the box is checked. If not, I fail to see the RPG elements. There are cards, sure, but it's not a card battler. You run around on maps (that would look nice if it wasn't for the insane bloom/brightness; nothing you can do about it)…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6142328/]Like this Review? Follow The Cpt Froggy Club Curator Page for plenty more! Upon starting a new game you’ll find yourself standing outside of a fiery portal on a barren looking land. There’s a pathway leading between broken archways, fallen walls and stone stairs. At the end of the pathway is another portal where you’ll exit. However, to exit the level you must do two things, first you must find a Red Key which can be found somewhere on the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On the surface, Cardaclysm might seem like the dozens of roguelite deckbuilding RPGs that show up every day on Steam. To a degree, it is like them, but it abandoned the “roguelite” aspect and went the route of a more traditional RPG. While it can seem overly forgiving to play through a game without the risk of starting from the beginning at this point, Cardaclysm ends up offering a challenge – though in a different way than its contemporaries. Abbreviated Review: https://youtu.be/y4btvAZcK1I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun card game/rpg game with some neat deck building elements. After about 10 hours of playing, I can say I definitely recommend this game for the price. However I did have some notes for the devs if they ever see this. -I feel like the difficulty scales waaaay to quickly. It was like a light switch, I went from owning everything to getting destroyed by every group. Why not have the game scale up and down in difficulty based on how well the player is doing. If they are getting owned over and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If your thinking of buying this game, it's not worth it. Game is very poorly designed - You have 5-7 different maps (like cosmetics for maps in DotA2) and literally rooms are just rotated. Yes item locations are random and so are monster spawns, but this part of the game is the most boring one. Slowly moving around the map, trying to not "miss" anything. Start was very slow, no early combos or thinking, just use 2-3 monsters because they are OP. The way the hitboxes are used are super…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is unplayable because it has technical issues. I regret that I wanted to look past it for longer than 2 hours, because now my refund will probably be denied. Do not buy this game before the game is fixed. For developer: -> The game features a bug that makes it impossible to place creatures. -> If you cannot place monsters, you lose the battle and lose your progress. -> It didn't happen to me too often before beating the boss thing. But it happens to me about 3 times every 5 levels…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tl;dr: It's currently unfun and aimless. You wander a mostly empty 3D map and then you do it again for very little progress, repeat and repeat and repeat. The first thing you notice starting up the game is the unpleasant experience from the startup cutscene being sound balanced far too loud, and that you can't skip it until you complete the tutorial. Even if you have already watched it. Make sure to mute your speakers before launch then drop the games sound in Options after. Said Tutorial is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game sets you up for failure most of the time. Each card requires two resources to play, one of which is scarce, while the other is not abundant either. You can only deploy a few of the monsters before resources deplete. Making this harder is the fact that most player cards have only 1-5 HP, pitted against enemy cards with 10-40 HP, resulting in frequent one-hit kills. With a limited deck of 14 cards, which may not even include all available options initially, you'll often find your deck…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alright, strap in for the Cardaclysm rollercoaster – it's like the quirky cousin of card games, the one who shows up at family reunions with a kazoo orchestra. Forget those reviews likening it to Slay the Spire; it's like comparing a hedgehog to a disco ball – both prickly, but one's way shinier. So, you dive into this card-battling extravaganza, and some folks label it as Magic the Gathering's estranged sibling. Nonsense! It's more like the class clown of card games – unpredictable, a bit…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a CCG with limited maximum card inventory (you can never own more than 1% of all the available cards). Combine that with a mobile game gatcha approach of having to have multiple duplicates to actualise any cards potential. What you get is a card take on a pokemon game with the PC having 12 inventory slots and you require 9 copies to fully evolve something.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A VERY light, casual game. Feels like a free mobile app that tries to hold your attention with bright flashing lights until the next ad comes. Very little depth or challenge. No disrespect to people that are into casual games; it just wasn't at all why I expected.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall, I do not enjoy this game in its current state. The general gameplay is shallow and frustrating. Cons: - Too harsh difficulty increase - The random factor when gaining more cards is crippling - A death feels like a complete and utterly waste of time - You are too limited in your card choices and deck building - Lacking tooltips and quality of life features Pros: - Soothing music - Pretty graphics
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR Another card battler that quickly becomes repetitive. The idea behind the game is not bad: you play as a wizard who collects spells (cards) allowing to deal direct damage to enemies, and also summon creatures who attack them. Unlike other card games, you don't get mana each turn automatically, so you have to rely on your initial pool and mana gained via creatures' abilities. And that's where the good things end. While the number of cards available is not that small, they all do more or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All these negative reviews are just dead wrong. The game is not too hard - in fact, anyone who complains about losing too much is probably just bad. And even if you do lose - I've lost a few times by making dumb plays - you can usually recover in your very next run, as long as you don't play mindlessly. The progression system also has a nice feel to it and due to the size of the card pool, it feels like I have much left to explore. And finally the balance. It's actually ok, counter to what some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An okay deckbuilder with some annoying mechanics and grind. It's worth a look but it's not for everyone. You have to build a deck of 14 cards. You draw 4 at a time, and you only draw new cards to replace ones you've used. You get a fixed amount of money and souls to summon creatures, which can trap you having 4 cards you can't play. You can redraw before your first turn so you can see up to 8 cards, but that's barely over half your deck so if there's one or two cards you're counting on, good…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too limited in every aspect of a video game. Maybe the art will bring some nostalgia for some of us, but don't expect it to carry you during your mandatory grind. Shouldn't sell students homework.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've came back to this game recently because I've been wanting to play a decent single-player card game for a while and realized I never wrote a review. Let me frontload with the bad, this game is very amateur. Artistically it's pretty basic, it lacks keybindings, UI is a bit slow, everything about it looks like an low-budget indie project. And with that said, I will still take this over any of the 13251 clones of Slay the Spire that hit the store every day. Roguelikes in card games is that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Visually appealing, but severely harmed by unpolished and dull gameplay. The game looks good, graphics are simple but the style is fitting. The effects of the cards/units are also good, so all in all it is visually very appealing. The gameplay however, is heavily reliant on having an initial hand that contains the right cards, unless you are vastly overpowered, which makes the gameplay go from somewhat difficult to very dull too quickly after you grinded enough. Still, the fact that the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR #1 way the game could improve is to Provide passive gold (mana) regeneration during a match so early-game you can use more cards in a single battle on a hard map or hard enemies. As an alternative, I would be happy just being able to 'quit' a map "type" to get a different type when I've come up against a layout that my deck of cards cannot overcome. Long version: I really wanted to recommend this game, the concept seems really awesome and I enjoy the art/music/atmosphere, and I didn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36948155-Card-Game-KING/] FOR MORE REVIEWS ABOUT CARD GAMES, CHECK OUT OUR CURATOR PAGE: CARD GAME KING or [url=https://twitter.com/TheCardGameKing]TWITTER What is this game about? Cardaclysm is a very light roguelike card battler that starts with a bombastic cutscene and high production graphics which built up expectations quickly, only to end end with disappointment for most players as the gameplay loop is surprisingly very simple. So is it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Many bugs and technical issues. The camera not following your character properly, items disappearing from your inventory, the mouse control to aim at an enemy frequently does not register at all and you must spend upwards of 10-seconds trying to re-aim before you can select a target, etc. Controller support was promised 9-months ago, but never implemented. So be aware that even though the release notes says the game now has controller support - it does not. Also nerfs made to cards caused me…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Way too many negative reviews for this game. Its not quite the deck builder I was hoping for, but its satisfying. There are some bugs that need to be worked out, IE 'Higmore Castle', I am currently stuck in game because I cant leave the castle until all 'foul' creatures are killed, well --- the map is cleaned out. Soz I am stuck for now (can zone back to pub, but then I would lose all my progress, so newp), hopefully they patch it soon. Good game, but the deck building needs more synergy.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly I cannot recommend this game at this time - game is not out of early access, the launch features promised on the release notes are NOT live just yet. Keep following, I am sure the developer will complete if given time. Review update: Looks like a communication error and developer has advised controller support was announced before it was ready. Will keep following to see how this continues as the game seems really interesting
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I did not enjoy the game - i know i bought it in early access but the entire system seems flawed. I can not put my finger on it but the inventory system aswell as the combat are not fitting the game at all. It seems as though the developer took stuff from different games and tried to merge it and it just doesn't fit. None of it does. The timed aspect in a game that otherwise lets you take your sweet time ist just like a jumpscare from a horror movie, a cheap trick. The inventory /item aspect…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A potentially very nice and interesting card game :) (more will be added as progression goes) Having only played one hour i personally can say I like it! Of course there will be plenty of others saying that this game isn't that complex etc. And maybe there's truth in it as well. However, because i've only just begun playing it i can't say whether or not things won't change? One thing i can and will say is, that the game has depth and tactics etc, that will indeed require you to think…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"A Rollercoaster Ride of Chaos: Cardyclism." As someone who loves diving into unique indie games, Cardyclism caught my eye with its stunning visuals and promising concept. And let me tell you, it's a wild ride from start to finish. Visually, Cardyclism is a treat. The art style is vibrant and eye-catching, drawing you into its whimsical world of card-based chaos. Each card is beautifully crafted, and the environments are rich with detail, making every moment visually stimulating. However,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game - love cards builder - had 100/100 achievements in 24 Hours. Pro : grind not heavy - system of items very satisfying - good art design - fair card evolution progression Con : not as deep as slay the spire Final 8/10 - Would buy the sequel if there is one - one day
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →FUN GAME, BUY ON DISCOUNT AND HAVE A BLAST. RPG/ROUGE LIKE WITH GREAT DECK. NOT FOR EXTREME PLAYERS BUT FUN CAUSAL GAME
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's pretty good, but haven't been compelled to play it dozens of hours like other card games. It's the type of card game like Hearthstone, Faeria, and Legends of Runeterra where you summon units and use spells, but it's entirely single player. I was expecting it to be more of an RPG-like game, but I didn't really read enough about it I guess. You do find items you can equip to your character like an RPG and there ways of upgrading the cards, but there aren't skill trees or other methods of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's "listening to a podcast in the background" grindy. That's not for everyone - for me it was alright. I liked collecting the cards and figuring out builds. Here are all the problems I encoutered: - Controller at times just stops being able to perform certain actions but not others until you restart the game. - The targeting arrows for selecting enemies in battle when playing with controller are really bad. It can be very hard to tell if you're targeting the outermost enemy or the one next…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good and bad, but the bad outweighs the good. There's abilities that are just hard counters to whatever deck type you build. This would be find in a card game if not for the fact that you have to completely restart an entire level and lose all of your progress from just ONE loss. That makes any rock/paper/scissor hard counters very frustrating and unfun. Dev response update: The problem is when you flee, you're sent back to the exact same level again with the same enemy types. And, there's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Verdict: Enjoyable single-player strategic card game with RPG elements. I had a lot of fun in the first four acts but the last one is a grind fest. I would recommend it on sale because of that (you can even see that majority of positive reviews didn't get to the late game) and missing basic features (like save slots, loadouts ..) + Still worked on (balance, new features, adaptive difficulty ...) Steam trading cards (4 drop, 8 to make badge) Steam achievements (40, require a single playthrough…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tldr: game-play wise game is atrociously badly done. One of the worst combat system I've ever encounter. Progression is done via grind, zero skill or tactics involved. Gameplay loop is goes like this: You run trough small dungeon fighting the same monsters again and again (very small variety). Combat is done via summoning creatures with cards. Cards cost mana to play but instead of normal mana-per-turn economy you have all your mana available from the start and creatures can attack instantly.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Neutral What is currently released out as full release is passable but I think it could go a long way further. The animated card art and 3D models are well done. There are a lot of interesting concepts being explored in the game which set it apart from most other entries in the genre. 3D exploration map space, end of level "boss" chasing after the player, slot based player character equipment, the way resources for playing cards are accumulated/spent..etc. The problem lies in that these…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am writing this because there are tons of negative reviews for this game. Yes some parts like the over-world map feel not fleshed out and down right clunky (it is easy to overlook items on the map) but the core loop of collecting cards, trying to upgrade them and finally perfecting your deck feels satisfying and the monsters/cards you collect feel unique, which makes it easier to craft a favourite deck. for 9€ most of my deck building needs are already met. keep up the good work.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Without delving into the game hugely I've already decided I like the gameplay. It reminds me of the old MTG(the name escapes me) game where you wandered around the world collecting cards and gear to start building a deck.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like card games, I highly recommend this one since it’s different from others. I want to start with something I haven’t read in others reviews: the art. Cards look awesome, but what I really love the most are the different worlds you play in (especially nighttime). They look beautiful and relaxing. About the gameplay, there are a lot of reviews that explain it in detail so you should read those. But something I want to add is that cardaclysm has one thing other card games don’t: armor…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you want to know about gameplay others wrote enough or watch a let´s play. "Link included" You will love this and stay. If you like Puzzlegames. If you like games that challenge you at every gamestate (Early, mid, late) If you like to collect cards and try things out. If you want a card game that has actual progression and does NOT reset you back to 0. You will cerrtainly HATE this. If you are the type of player that powerlevels early, so he can mindless oneshoot his enemies. If you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awful level designs, unpolished graphics (your character floats), choke point gameplay (you will get stuck as the mechanics of the game is not at all well planned or thought). Don't purchase this unless it is with 90% off on sale.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"First you go this way. Now you go this way. No, there's nowhere else to go". Feels like I'm being pushed through a fixed path, there are few ways to do your own choices outside of combat.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Perhaps I played too little to know all the aspects of the game, but I couldn't stomach the boredom to progress further into the game. What's thinly veiled as "strategy game" like that of Hearthstone quickly devolves into get-strong-minion-quick-and-steam-roll-enemies. I felt I was being dragged by the game's mechanic, rather than me playing the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is really, really good! Not perfect, mind you, because there are some minor bugs, but really good all the same. I got it for a few euro's on Steam when there was a discount. I am now 40 hours in, and I estimate that have completed about 80%. For me, that is incredible value for money. If you can get it for a discount like me, I highly reccommend it. If there is no discount right now, place it on your "wants" list in Steam and you will get a message when it does go on discount. Why…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is boring, the game play loop is not engaging and there are a lot of elements that are unnecessary.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Poorly balanced card game with lots of visual and gameplay bugs long after release. The game suffers from big problems balancing how you earn the resources to cast your cards and enemy difficulty. This forces the players to choose between an mindless easy grind for resources or extremely random runs where bad rng forces you to re-play a level dozens of time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to like this game, but right now I cannot recommend it. The cards/equipment are nice, and I can see the potential and the synergies, but I fear I won't experience them myself because I just get bored of wandering (more precisely crawling like a snail) in repetitive mostly-empty maps. Actually, I think this game would have been WAY better if it had been 2D, focusing all the efforts in the UI and forgetting about the "traveling" of the character. In any case, it needs something to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cardaclysm was featured on my youtube channel https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2416554016 and now onto the short review TL;DR Review //intro// What is up comrades, MF Kraven here with another less than 10 mins review. Today we take a look at Cardaclysm, a procedurely generatred card game with top down RPG-esque elements in which your goal is to take down the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in card battle. Will Cardaclysm shift the paradym in an already saturated…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple but great game! I hope some expansion in the future.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really wanted to like this one, love the idea, just find it too frustrating right now. I'll give it another shot when 3 things are fixed: - Discard a certain number of cards in your hand per turn (so if you're stuck with high cards only you have a chance of getting something you can play) - Fixing those Gargoyles or just removing their rock form (I often hit a stalemate with them because I don't have enough total attack power left to kill them in one turn) - Add some sort of progression when…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, you really have to spend some time in the game before forming an opinion. There are moments where the difficulty gets insane compared to your cards but with time you get better cards and things even out. When you look at the reviews all the people with greater than 10 hours are almost all great where as the sub one hour players are poor. Give the game some time and youll enjoy it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just can't quite put my finger on it but the game rubs me the wrong way. The art style, music and, game-play are all enjoyable. But having the limited resource not recover and then getting to a point of 'I can't win this fight and there is nothing i can do to stop it' urks me. I wanted to like this and it might be OK for some but not for me. Cons: - Difficulty is all over the place and ramps up far too fast - The random factor when gaining more cards is crippling - A death feels like a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Addictive gameplay loop. You run around, fight enemies, collect stuff and upgrade your creatures, spells, and itemization. Then you head back to the hub, turn in a few quests, look if the merchants have anything interesting and then it's back to adventure within minutes. The low poly art is pleasing to the eye and the music switches between relaxing and epic when appropriate. The general feel of the game reminds me of Etherlords, a boomer card game I used to sink a lot of time into back in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cardaclysm is a grinder of monster battles. Fight with your monsters turn-based style (mostly like hearthstone), with cards of monsters and spells that you collect, upgrade, trade and grind down. Walk a bit getting power-ups (retro) and equipment (diablo) on a map (randomly generated), until you fight enough monsters to leave that map to the inn and interact with a number of NPCs. They trade and give quests to you, then you leave the inn and start a new random map. There's more to it than…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game does not deserve the hate its getting. Its actually really fun and the combining cards into stronger cards is such a cool mechanic. I wasn't even going to try it for free because it had mixed reviews, but if you look most of the negative reviews are from china and people that dont even understand the core concept of the game. It's not your traditional card game -- which makes it a refreshing change of pace from other Slay the spire / monster train clones. Try the game for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this on a discounted sale price of $2 and for that price I would definitely say this game is worth playing. With one important note. The biggest strike against this game is that it doesn't respect your time. Gold that is used for spells and summons goes up by 2-4 per stage and as the game gets more difficult, this never increases. Orbs needed to summon more creatures are exceedingly rare though I was lucky to get some boots that made summoning take one less orb. Finally to get to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first part of the game is long and a bit boring because the cards are low values and mostly the same. I cannot decline or change them for orbs. In the fights sometimes there is not enough orbs for put on more cards so l lose. If you don't have much expectations this part can be enjoyable. The second level, Highmore castle is a reflex game that is impossible to do without a chance to set up my mouse sensitivity. I have to avoid spiky traps while l cannot control my character if my mouse is…
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