Heretics Amulet, a dark, tarot-inspired roguelike card game, is now available for Linux on Steam.

You have to keep the total of a grid of face-down numbered cards as low as possible within a limited number of draws, because whatever is left is the damage you take. The game costs €7.19, and there is also a free demo.

Heretics Amulet is a dark, tarot-inspired roguelike card game. Each round, you’re dealt a grid of face-down numbered cards with a limited number of draws. Get the total on the table as low as you can before the draws run out, because whatever’s left is the damage you take!

Between rounds you spend collected souls on items that reshape your deck. Each of the 8 acts ends with a rule-bending boss and an endless freeplay mode is waiting for you when you’re ready to see how far you can go.

Features:

• 8 acts, each ending in a boss with its own rule change
• 30 unique and weird items to find, including run items and permanent upgrades
• Endless Freeplay Mode with escalating difficulty and saved personal bests
• A collection of 12 original tarot cards, 21 achievements, and lore entries for every item
• 12 original music tracks to unlock for your in-game listening room
• Low-fi retro visuals with tarot-inspired card art, designed, drawn, coded and scored by one developer, that’s me!
• And most importantly, a full release, complete at launch, no Indefinite Early Access here

Source: Steam