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Sacrifice creates stories in this medieval roguelike deckbuilder. Watch your cards march to glory or permanent death as they battle toward the enemy. Each fallen hero becomes part of your kingdom's legend. Command wisely... some sacrifices are necessary.

The Royal Writ is a strategy, roguelike deckbuilder and turn-based strategy game developed by Save Sloth Studios and published by Yogscast Games.
Released on August 07th 2025 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Hungarian, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Turkish and Polish.

It has received 310 reviews of which 265 were positive and 45 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.

The Steam community has classified The Royal Writ into these genres:

Strategy Roguelike Deckbuilder Turn-Based Strategy Card Game Dark Humor Turn-Based Combat Deckbuilding Tactical Singleplayer Card Battler Combat Roguelike Medieval Roguelite Tactical RPG Cartoon Hand-drawn Fantasy Funny Turn-Based Tactics

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10/11
  • Processor: Intel 12500 / AMD Ryzen 5 5600
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel 12500 Integrated graphics / AMD Ryzen 5 5600G integrated graphics
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

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Aug. 2025
Unique and masterfully executed deckbuilder game that reminds me of Wildfrost. Its art is incredible, probably my favorite in games ever. In terms of mechanics, the cards in this game are a lot more temporary than typical deckbuilders: their base stats can be easily modified and a lot of utility cards are one battle only. And there are also plenty ways to kill cards (and even transfer stats), so pivoting mid run is quite easy and often encouraged. The valuable board upgrades from the tactician also ensures that a significant part of progression is not lost even if you swap out your whole deck. You can try out and experiment multiple builds just within a single game for little cost My main complaint is that some card descriptions are not really clear and several important mechanics are not explained well. Just adding some commas and periods would help a lot for understanding what the cards do. Additionally, how card drawing works in this game can be a bit annoying: you only draw new cards when the cards in your hand is below hand limit. This means that if your hand is filled with consumables and spy cards (often the case in the late game), you have to play them all before drawing new character cards. Aside from the obvious opportunistic cost, playing these cards often has detrimental effects, especially in the act II boss fight, where playing them advances bullets. Maybe the game can give the players one guaranteed card draw for each turn?
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Aug. 2025
Games fun but there seriously needs to be a way to end a run when you know you can't win the battle. It's very annoying having to endlessly hit the attack button until all your cards die off.
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Aug. 2025
Gonna leave a positive review, because I feel like it's another Wildfrost situation: cute and great graphics, innovative and fun gameplay, lots of cool game mechanics, but extremely, deceivingly punishing gameplay loop that's so hard to grasp it feels unfair. So leaving a negative review feels unfair - at least since I haven't devoted enough hours to this game yet. That being said, The Royal Writ is extremely hard to get into. The tooltips' wording isn't all that clear and at times I struggle to understand why I'm losing cards during the battle. The Balatro-style modifier seems to miss the point that in Balatro each card has a blue value that you can multiply by a red one. The Royal Writ cards don't necessarily have a blue value and it creates frustration when you draw all-red cards that ultimately amount to zero. Even giving them a value of 1 would amount to something. The bosses in this game are extra hard to beat. I feel like you need to actively look and plan ahead for a boss fight, since its mechanics might flip your winning strategy on its head. It's clever, but also feels overwhelming at times. I'm not entirely sure how to consistently win against them yet. Other than challenging gameplay and perhaps some balancing issues, the Royal Writ feels a lot of fun to play and the way it handles the secret card abilities is simply perfect. It's a very clever game, I hope it'll get polished to perfection soon
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Aug. 2025
Fantastic art, animation, and vibe, great music, and fun!
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Aug. 2025
First found out about this game during Steam Next Fest, and while I liked the visual style I was hesitant to try it, because at first glance I thought it'd be a fairly typical card battler and I don't tend to be all that into those. Gave it a try anyway and it quickly became my favourite roguelike. Gameplay leans closer to a Balatro-style deckbuilder while still feeling very original, and the light-hearted humour sprinkled throughout is a perfect match for the generally whimsical vibe of the game's hand-drawn art. Seeing the ways the devs have tweaked things from the demo to full release has been fun too - there's a dentist where you can take a hit to a card's power in return for a random item, but a few cards have fixed power levels, which meant in the demo you could infinitely pluck their teeth to get whatever item you wanted. Come the full release, I tried doing the same thing only to find after a few plucked teeth they were now toothless, changing their abilities (and art) and even enabling synergy for decks built around making way too many trips to the dentist. As for replayability, I'm currently 10 hours in (plus another 8 on the demo) and I've yet to complete Act 2, and as far as I can tell there's a bunch more difficulty levels (think Stakes in Balatro) and challenge runs I've yet to unlock, let alone play. I don't normally write reviews but the game's great (and fairly cheap), the devs are clearly passionate, and I feel like the game deserves to be seen (and played) by more people.
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The Royal Writ is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Royal Writ is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.

The Royal Writ received 265 positive votes out of a total of 310 achieving a rating of 7.92.
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The Royal Writ was developed by Save Sloth Studios and published by Yogscast Games.

The Royal Writ is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Royal Writ is not playable on MacOS.

The Royal Writ is not playable on Linux.

The Royal Writ is a single-player game.

The Royal Writ does not currently offer any DLC.

The Royal Writ does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Royal Writ does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Royal Writ is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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