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Shattered Heaven
Developer Leonardo Production
Shattered Heaven is a single-player deck builder card game with RPG elements and an ambitious branching narrative, set in a dark fantasy world. The game focuses on a card game and roguelike gameplay fueled by a great replay value, thanks to procedural dungeons, a deep crafting system. From the Steam store page
71 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest May 18, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
80
LovedLoved
52 positive · 13 negative
95% range 69–88%
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| Steam reviews | 52 | 13 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
6 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
99 of 124 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 71 · most liked firstWhile the game looks good and has interesting combat, the story is all over the place with character look-a-likes popping up all over. At the mid point this game becomes an absolute slog and combat becomes a chore. You start spending more and more time managing the battle quest, armour and hex cards than actual fighting. Even the boss fights drag on with bosses having 3 health bars just to drag out and prolong the fights. You need to get the battle quests perfect because if you fail them you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →pretty decent semi/rpg card battler which definitly focuses on telling a story and world building there's a lot of dialogue, even fully voiced cutscenes lots of lore and worldbuilding which kinda makes the game standout compared to more mechanical focused card battlers the art style is (as you can see in the screenshots) is pretty nice and so is the OST the VO is kinda hit'n miss, but works and the fact that is even there is commendable, also there's quite a lot of it i'm not realy the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: - Runs like a dream. No crashes, stutters, or frame drops. - Devs are actively involved and responsive to feedback. - Well thought out rouge-lite deckbuilder with RPG elements. - Great world-building - there's a lot to dig into here and more will very likely be fleshed out as EA unfolds. - Fantastic art design and music. Some of these creature designs are something you'd expect find out of Barlowe's Inferno! Card design is beautiful. Events are totally unique, very well written, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First boss' story hit me harder than a truck. Tears/10 Also bless the deckbuilding for allowing me to play nearly half my deck in one round
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game first caught my eye last year, since then, I had been quite looking forward to it. After several release date pushbacks, due to the devs wanting to deliver a more polished experience; I have to say the game does really lack polish at this moment in time. The art style is gorgeous, but this isn't matched by the card art, and some of the texts and buttons throughout the game look and feel really low quality. This might not be a big deal for some, but for me it just gives off an air of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's Slay the Spire, but overly complicated and with bad UI. For example, there's no actual card text on cards, just art. If a card does 7 damage, why not print "7 damage" on the card? Instead it goes like this: Mouse hover a card > a popup window appears that shows 50% of the card text > then you have to right click the card to open a menu with the other 50% of the card text.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Artstyle is good, OST is good, price is fair, game is good. For an early access it's already pretty damn nice and looking like it will have a very promising future. -Edit: I finished the game, 27h from start to finish. Absolutely worth the price. Can't wait for new updates, gonna play it again just to do all the possible endings. Highly recommended :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: - The art style is great, - The music is amazing - The setting is dark and very lovecraftian and game machanics are good. - Instead of a single character you have a party of three - A lot of story like in a visual novel and also rpg elements. Cons: - some dialogues are without sound and music - some of the art is inconsistant - there are holes in the story and some parts don't make sense - the gameplay could be repetative I hope that the devs will add more content to the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its stand out rogue-lite (and i played all of them) with RPG elements that are put very well in generics, for early access game it has a lot of potential with huge talent tree a lot of cards and different type of items. Very good voice acting and cutscenes are something that we don't have in many card battlers but this game has it more that its needed for my taste (we just wanna play cards), story seems good so far. All in all solid 7/10 with a lot of potential, keep up the good work devs!…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would refund the game if I could, I simply can not stand the childish writing and characters in this game. A minor annoyance in comparison to the bad writing, the not very subtle politically correct speech used throughout the game, like using humankind where the phrase mankind would linguistically more appropriate. Or in certain card phrases that specify a lover being gay, when in the card there was no need to specify the sex of the lover unless it was to virtue signal. This was also…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing art and character design combined with great music and interesting story! Very worth checking it out
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's hard to tell if the game is any good due to the endless inane dialogue you have to sit through. For 30 minutes of gameplay, at least 20 minutes is spent watching the characters auto-talk. Over and over. About 90% of the dialogue needs to be cut just to get the pacing somewhere in normal range...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SH is deck-builder card game featuring three playable characters, each of whom have their own unique deck and each of whom will be fielded in every battle. As opposed to the ubiquitous roguelike/rougelite StS-clones which have saturated the market, SH is actually a full story-driven campaign played out over four acts. Battles are turn-based. By and large, a character will draw 5 cards and will have 2 energy to spend, with most cards costing 1 energy. In addition to playing cards, each…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slay the Spire x 90s JRPG x Department of Heaven
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A compelling dungeon-crawling deckbuilder game with a unique setting and art style. Great for sitting down and playing for 15-30 minutes or a handful of hours. The deckbuilding element is a lot of fun, lets you build strategies based on abilities and mechanics, and then adapting those to new cards you pick up in the dungeons. Love this game a lot!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Enjoying this a lot! As a fan of roguelites and deckbuilders, I often wish these kind of games had a bigger narrative element, and Shattered Heaven definitely delivers on this, making for a more rounded and compelling experience. The RPG elements also promise to add a lot of depth to the gameplay. All in all, whether you're looking for a fun card battler, endearing characters or beautiful artwork and music, you'll find it here!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An interesting game, with a cool artstyle thats blend perfectly with the RPG-narrative yet roguelike genre. Give it a chance, it worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has a similar premise to Final Fantasy X; the same genre of Roguelike Card RPGs like Slay the Spire and Across the Obelisk... But most importantly (at least to me), the music SLAPS.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As somebody that doesn't enjoy roguelikes where you start over each run and have to build up again via RNG - I found this game to be a breath of fresh air. The story mode allows you to play through a roughly 30 hour campaign, gaining strength, abilities and loot the entire time. The only thing that you build up on a "run" that goes away is your collection of additional "neutral" cards that you gather up along the way, and it's actually a good thing to get rid of these after every dungeon.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →~COMPREHENSIVE EARLY ACCESS REVIEW~ Initial review was 11,321 characters too long. So here's a GUTTED version. The most important thing is I had FUN. Good time. Happy about purchase. Spoiler free! Art/Style/Looks: Game is beautiful. A cool old gothic/renaissance kind of atmosphere (reminds me of Blasphemous). I love every time I get a crit. Fantastic. Difficulty: Possibly controversial? I played on the hardest mode and had an easy time. Only one fight did anyone die, and never again was I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great art and soundtrack. Would like a full vo maybe when the game comes out. Very intruguing worldbuilding. Definitely worth a look. Let's try here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgXu38f39Uw
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Refunded after first fight. The game seems blurry, the text of cards is floating upon arts its very clunky to play. It seems like very amateurish project, wait for sale. Definitelly not worthy 20 usd. Beautiful artstyle of environment and characters though, but the art on the cards is very mediocre.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As most comments have already mentioned, the game is definitely more focused on telling a story, but do not think the game play has been abandoned. The mechanics are more than interesting enough: Semi-permanent state of the hero decks (20 card deck built prior a dive, then edited during the dive itself) Items used outside of the dungeon and during battles Character improvement via skill tree A light character equipment option True to its Early Access state, the game is merely…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played 2 hours so far and it seems very promising. The characters moving during the "standard" talking session are a bit weird but overall the art style is very good, but the full fledged cutscenes are very good. This is a game where the animation during the battle are, thank goodness, fast and don't take ages to play, letting you focus directly on your next. A great touch. Critical hit animation and voices are very cool! Some description of dungeon effects are not entirely clear, like…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like this game. It's different from other deckbuilders, in that Shattered Heaven is a lot more story focused. You still have deckbuilding, meta-progression, dungeon exploration, battles, and random events. But I think if you set your expectations to that of a story driven game - like The Witcher - you really start to appreciate the atmosphere this game tries to build, with its art, music, setting and characters. What I like: - The deck building aspect and finding cards is fun and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome vibes, good gameplay, and cool worldbuilding so far.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall really, really solid. Highly recommend. Core game play isn't revolutionary but it's consistently solid. What sets this game apart is the world building and narrative. They do a great job of show not tell when it comes to characters and world building. The characters are interesting, the monsters are really well designed, and the core story is engaging enough that I want to complete it even in a sea of deckbuilder roguelikes on steam. The level of focus and polish alone on this game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm enjoying this game a lot! It has quite a bit of dialogue, but it is interesting and engaging! The gameplay is fun, and has a nice balance of being challenging without becoming overwhelming! I highly recommend this game!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please consider following my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41005226/]Curation page. I cover a wide range of genres both paid and unpaid, providing unbiased opinions as well as regular giveaway events. Visually flawed and too much narration It's a good thing this game is Early Access, so there is room to improve. I look at this game and wonder what it's attempting to be. A Dungeons and Dragons game? A visual novel? A dating / relationship game with a companionship theme? A card…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are a rogue-lite/RPG fan, give the game a shot! It's a bit rough around the edges, but the Devs are committed to improving their game and fleshing it out, and I'm excited to see what they do next. Also, the art + music is awesome.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has actually gripped me, I've beaten the demo a few times and played a few hours in the main game and I can say the story/mechanics of the battles feel incredible. Might be my fav deckbuilder since slay the spire https://youtu.be/ppGSmiVqdfA
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think if you have a high tolerance for odd design choices, existentialism, card games, doomed yuri, parasitic gods, linking the flame, bugs sometimes, grind, and a roguelike made wrong, Shattered Heaven is a game I will be thinking about for a while. store.steampowered.com/app/1454000/...
unlabelledView post →Shattered Heaven is an ambitious fusion of dark fantasy storytelling, deck-building strategy, and roguelike dungeon crawling, shaped by Leonardo Production and published by Leonardo Interactive alongside WhisperGames. It takes place in a bleak world cursed after a cataclysmic divine event, where humanity survives through ancient rituals requiring sacrifice, bloodshed, and unwavering loyalty to broken traditions. The premise immediately sets the tone: this is not a hopeful fantasy, but a world…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good news: the game is story-rich Bad news: the story`s full of self-righteous under-educated manics and makes absolutely no sense Good news: Instead of a single character, you have a party of three Bad news: led by a cocky rude lesbian leader who happen to be a hopeless romantic, accompanied by an overly bullied victim and a blind girl (miraculously, she`s normal) Good news: the antiheroes are cool Bad news: they were all brutally murdered Good news: it has excellent art and music Good news:…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Immersive game with great music, combat system,lore, world building and characters :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is really interesting in terms of strategy, the fights are intriguing and the fact that it's random with each run makes it practically infinite, the story is very interesting too, I'm curious to know how it ends
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this one, the art, the dungeon style... but it just lacks in everything else that makes a deck builder good.. like.. the cards, the combos. Didn't refund, maybe they'll try again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Story rich deck builder battler with some pretty interesting mechanics and a bangin' soundtrack. There's awesome sound design to all of the strikes and power-ups as well. The story rich part is really the distinguishing feature from the countless other options out there. That said, while there is a *lot* going on in the story, it's very difficult to dissect even from one ~25 hour playthrough. Everyone is lying to you all the time about everything. When you finally start to encounter…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I found a build that worked super well, and the story definitely kept me engaged in it until I could reach the end! Loved the overall setup, and the twists in the storyline can keep you guessing!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crash simulator
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun a beautiful Card battler that draws you in from the very beginning. If you enjoy games like slay the spire and darkest dungeon you'll enjoy this game for sure! If you want a more in depth look at this game I did make a 1st thoughts video! https://youtu.be/aGPIWJAVQR4?si=530bg2-qrC20sbEs
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was never a big fan of card battlers, but this was surprisingly good!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Intro: I approached Shattered Heaven not as a big card game enthusiast, but as a fan of Dry Drowning. I was expecting an intriguing world-building and an emotional story, I was surprised when I also find an interesting and compelling card game. PRO ART: Look at any gameplay videos and try to prove otherwise. STORY: If a AAA team can make me care about characters before the first Boss is a damn good game, this indie makes me CRY. WOLRD BUILDING: after the first five lines you want to know…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very good game witb alot of lore
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the gmae, a deck building game the is fun and have an interesting story and look forward to new game +. but it would be great if you didn't get a battle mission that says use 2 legendary cards when you at thr start have chosen you can't use legendary.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I discovered this game through Kickstarter and was immediately intrigued. I really appreciate the gameplay, I had been looking for a new card-based dungeon crawler for a while and it did not disappoint. Narratively, the campaign features a well-developed world, troubled and well-written characters, and a dark and grim atmosphere, thanks in part to the soundtrack that adds to this feeling. Graphically, I really enjoyed both the environments and characters during the dialogues and the splash…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tend to gloss over deck building games because they're not exactly my cup of tea and I'm bad at them, but I like this one! Its focus on story and worldbuilding is really what keeps me anchored and actually pushes me to focus on game mechanics, so I can advance. I'm really enjoying the secondary characters, the interactions between the protagonist's guardians are nice and I really want to know more about them in particular. Bonus points to the first boss for making me actually sad! There may…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shattered Heaven does it's job both good and bad. Firstly, the story. I feel like there's a deep background and there's a ton of backstory but 7 hours in and I'm just beginning to get it. It's one of those times when beginning in medias res was probably not a good idea. I'd like to know more about why Andora is the way she is before embarking in a long adventure with her. I'm still not even sure what's going on. Game doesn't do a good job telling you about things available to you. You get…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →And in the same way you maybe don't see a lot of screen doors on submarines, there might be a reason for this. You spend Shattered Heaven feeling confounded, feeling without agency. But I can't dismiss the idea that the game wanted this, that this is the intended feeling.
unlabelledView post →Barrels of fun here!! Really good!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Phenomenal soundtrack, great art with Persona-esque monster design, though the combats are somewhat challenging at parts, but the deckbuilding feels limited and simplified. There's a story but it seems convoluted at times and doesn't inspire me to do another playthrough to understand all perspectives via the different endings. Either way, the whole game is not as amazing as its music, but I think it's enjoyable enough at the right price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I initially thought I'd dislike only having the same three characters throughout the story but the character themes and mechanics are solid and varied enough that I'm absolutely ok with it. The gameplay is solid. Unlike other early access games I've played, the only thing I'd like to see here is just more content. I recommend this game if you are a fan of the deckbuilder rogue-like genre and the art style.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this game a full 20 hours and literally never had any ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idea what was happening whatsoever. Fun anyway though, definitely hopping right in to NG+. If you see this and think "hey I like card RPGs," this is definitely one to pick up.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Late decision, but I am dying to play the full game of Shattered Heaven now that it's out. I loved the demo, and I'm away this weekend, so surprise stream at 8pm ET tonight! twitch.tv/kamianya #sponsored
unlabelledView post →game play loop is really enjoyable, it is a little heavy on the dialog tho, so keep that in mind before getting this, its kind of like darkest dungeon meets across the obelisk
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was playing this with my mate in is house with a couple of beers and a load chill: is basically my first TCG and i enjoyed so much that i decided to buy in my account as well. We are almost finish the game (we suppose): idk if is because we playing together or if the game is just good itself but i suggest the game also for who never played a TCG before.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simply wonderful! The game is at an early access stage but it already has a huge amount of content. The art style is very original and the music is really top notch. The attention to the story is very strong and the interaction between the characters is profoundly studied and works very well. The gamplay mechanics are very well balanced and there are so many other aspects of this game that stand out that I strongly believe that it is potentially a gem. The price tag is definitely very…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is probably one of those titles content creators would try and insist is a hidden gem. Sadly, the game has way too many issues. The most glaring of which is despite being a deck builder, there's little reason to stray from certain cards or builds and you'll find yourself relying on most of the same cards throughout the game. Worse, combat forces you to dilute your deck by drafting cards from a neutral or adaptive card pool, without the option to skip, with a number of cards being way worse…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At first I was a little disappointed, because I was expecting a roguelite deck builder. This game plays more lika a strategy card rpg with a few roguelite elements. But I decided to keep playing it anyway. The story is decent. Some plot points are expect, while others are a nice surprise. Their are obvious lesbians, but it doesn't push in your face. No "hey I'm lesbian, did you know?!" or pride flags. This part is very well done. Each dungeon and fight has special conditions which adds a bit…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's some real jank but also it's so heartfelt that it's easy to overlook the wonkiness. For example, this is a soulslike spirelike romantasy jrpg. That's too many buzzwords you need to put some of them back. Also, the core gameplay is a little monotonous, and a little bit incompletely explained. You won't know exactly how progression works or how the story branches until you're deep enough in that you've already made your mistakes (never leave a dungeon floor without having gotten all…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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