Menace from the Deep

Set in 1920s America, the story follows a clandestine occult society investigating strange events and a mysterious monolith. Choose from three playable heroes, each with a distinct deck and fighting style, as you uncover the society’s secrets.

Each run, use travel cards to shape a route through battles, locations, and events, while managing fuel for the journey. In turn-based fights, play cards from your hero’s deck and make use of allies, equipment, relics, and consumables.

Cards can gain upgrades through repeated use, and relics can be collected into sets. Between journeys, gather building materials for society upgrades that provide lasting bonuses; collecting memory fragments also reveals more about the society’s members.

Players who enjoy the game often praise its eerie Lovecraftian atmosphere, artwork, and music, along with the different hero playstyles and the route-and-event choices during a run. Some also enjoy experimenting with card upgrades and builds. Criticism commonly focuses on uneven difficulty and balance, limited card synergies, and upgrades that can make players want to prolong fights; some reviewers also find the story or dialogue weak.