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Navigate a circular dungeon of enemy and loot cards, weighing each turn’s risks while scavenging gear for a roguelike run.
Released 15 Oct 2020
Navigate the Card Ring
Sneak Past Horrors
Build Gear Combos
Enter the Ring of Pain, a roguelike card crawler where encounters come to you. Each step around the ring a dire decision. Go for the loot or backstab a creeping horror? Meet strange friends bearing gifts and treasure. Choose your gear wisely to survive and discover the secrets of the Ring of Pain.
Developed by Simon Boxer, Twice Different · Published by Balor Games
You venture through a dark, circular dungeon where enemies, loot, and exits appear as cards around a ring. Each turn, choose how to move, whether to fight or slip past a threat, and when to take a risk for a reward.
Enemies signal their actions, making positioning and timing important. Scavenge equipment, manage your stats and inventory, and combine items with passive effects to shape a build. Mimics offer gear for a price, while souls gathered during a run can help you acquire items.
Dungeons and item offerings vary between runs, with branching paths, special detours, and multiple regions to explore. Unlock additional difficulty settings and a daily dungeon with modifiers; short, cryptic rhyming passages provide glimpses of the world’s lore.
Players often enjoy the ring-shaped dungeon’s compact, consequential choices, where a simple move can involve weighing danger against loot. Reviews also praise experimenting with equipment synergies and builds, as well as the eerie visual style and brief, replayable runs. Some players find the randomness and difficulty frustrating, and others feel the experience has limited variety after several runs.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 138 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
