Indie developer Villain Games has announced Hero’s Hand, a new hybrid game that blends poker, RPGs, and roguelite games.
Hero’s Hand is in development for Windows PC (via Steam), Xbox Series X|S, Switch, and PS5 with a release set for 2026.
Here’s a rundown on the game, plus its reveal trailer:
We mashed together Poker, RPGs and Roguelites to make the wildest single player adventure possible. Become the Knight of Spades and build up your reputation across the land of Carduia! Face off against maniacal monsters by moving around the board to pick up cards to form the best poker hands possible with the cards you are dealt.
Your strategies, fortunes, items, weapons and armor come together to form a unique run experience each time, as you thwart larger and more over-the-top creatures in your efforts to face death and save the world!
Features
- Poker-Based Combat: Choose your cards wisely! Form spirit weapons via different hand types to defeat a wide spectrum of monsters who wield their own powers..
- Powerful Weapons and Armor to Find: Powerful items known as relics can be found throughout the Realm. The effects of these artifacts can enhance your build through powerful interactions. But don’t be hasty, obtaining a relic may cost you more than a smattering of gold…
- RPG Leveling System: Every run matters as you level up your characters to gain, unlock more inventory slots, more starting gold, secure crazier Fortune buffs, and upgrade your spirit weapons. The more you play, the more options become available to you.
- Explore Cardunia Backlore: In choose your own adventure style mini-quests, solve mysteries and puzzles to acquire rare items and fortunes you can’t buy in stores. Leave no stone unturned if you want to fill out your “Carduniapedia”.
Hero’s Hand keeps on giving with:
- Four characters that each have their own abilities…
- A cross-run RPG leveling system for fun progression!
- 180+ Fortunes that buff your characters.
- 60+ Scrolls and Potions to help in combat.
- 60+ unique combat encounters.
- 30+ lore infused mystery spots to explore with choose your own adventure style gameplay.
- Randomized runs keep the game fresh and fun, updates will bring more to the table.
