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Lightspire Cards is a dark fantasy tactical card battler where deckbuilding meets board control.
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Lightspire Cards is a dark fantasy tactical card battler where deckbuilding meets board control. Summon units, fuse cards, exploit terrain, complete quests, and battle through Luna’s story-driven campaign of saints, schemers, monsters, exiles, and broken vows.
Developed by Joshua Longworth · Published by Ethereal Realms Entertainment
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Lightspire Cards is a dark fantasy tactical card battler where deckbuilding meets board control. Every duel unfolds on a grid-based battlefield where position, terrain, timing, and hidden information matter as much as the cards in your hand.
Set in the world of Lightspire, The Outcast Knight follows Seraphina Thorn and a cast of saints, schemers, exiles, nobles, monsters, and revenants through a story-driven campaign of broken vows, political betrayal, forbidden faith, and desperate survival.
Choose cards from rival factions and strange bloodlines, each with its own resources, tactics, and identity. Spend Faith, Materials, Blood, Nature, and Souls to summon units, cast spells, raise structures, equip champions, and turn fragile openings into decisive battlefield pressure.
Cards are not just played and forgotten. They move, fight, flip, fuse, transform, complete quests, gain power, and hold territory.
The battlefield is not neutral. Slums, cathedrals, noble districts, waterways, hearths, and cursed places can empower the right units or weaken the wrong ones. A clever move can turn a modest card into a threat, while a careless one can leave your champion exposed.
Victory comes from reading the board, controlling key tiles, and forcing your opponent into bad ground.
Lightspire’s summon system rewards experimentation. Stack cards onto a tile to create fusions, attach equipment, trigger powerups, or discover powerful combinations. Some plays require planning. Others are born from desperation.
Learn recipes, complete character quests, and find the exact moment to reveal a hidden card, commit a resource, or sacrifice one piece to awaken something stronger.
Battle through a narrative campaign adapted from The Outcast Knight, facing duels shaped by story context, rival leaders, unique maps, and scenario objectives. Between fights, refine decks, manage your collection, craft new cards, dismantle extras, and prepare for the next trial.
Tactical card battles on grid-based boards
Story-driven dark fantasy campaign
Deckbuilding, crafting, collection management, and progression
Fusion recipes, equipment, powerups, quests, spells, structures, and terrain control
Distinct factions, resources, leaders, and enemy archetypes
Skirmish battles for testing decks and strategies
A world of saints, sinners, nobles, monsters, rebels, and broken oaths
In Lightspire Cards, faith is currency, terrain is power, and every duel leaves a mark.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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| AI disclosure | Generative AI tools were used during development to help create or iterate on some pre-rendered visual assets, supporting text, and marketing/store-page materials. All AI-assisted content is reviewed, edited, selected, and integrated by the developer. The game does not use live generative AI during gameplay. |
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| Website | Official website |
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