Can you lose all the cards in your hands before you lose everything?

The universe is vanishing into the VOID. Win a card game against Death to stop the process.

You win by losing all of the cards in your hands, and you lose cards by matching them. 

8 rules to match cards.  3 loops to try and stop the VOID. 

Be careful, though - with every failed loop, a part of the universe will disappear forever -taking part of the game with it.

DIMINISHING RETURNS is an ever changing game about a deteriorating universe. About 15-30 minutes of game time.

This is the complete version of the original DIMINISHING RETURNS for 1-bit game jam. Added in this verison:

  • Special cards - an entirely NEW mechanic to diversify your playthroughs even further!
  • 3 new RULES to be broken and change
  • Visual and mechanical polish - Animations! Shaders! Fun!

While this is the final version of the game, future tweaking-tuning and polishing updates are possible. Please give me your opinions and criticism, so I can improve the game even further.

Credits:

Code, Art, and Design - VoidMetallurgy

Music - TurtleBox

SFX - Kenny assets (casino and sci-fi packs)

Font - Alagard by Hewet Tsoi

Palette - NOIRE TRUTH by Cheeseismysoul

Shaders used:

Transition Shader - Lines Screen Transition by Exuin

CRT shader - VHS and CRT monitor effect by pend00

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorVoid_Metallurgy
GenreCard Game
Made withGodot
Tags1-bit, Atmospheric, Pixel Art, Short

Download

Download
Diminishing_Returns_Everything_Edition_1.1.zip 42 MB

Install instructions

Download, unzip, and play.

Development log

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The art is dope. I love it. Can't play though. Any chance you're going to make HTML version?

Done! At least, I think so... It's my first time exporting to HTML, please let me know if there are any issues (and all other feedback!)

Thank you for taking interest in my game.  I'm so glad you like the art! If you want to see more of it,  you can find it in my tumblr:

https://www.tumblr.com/void-metallurgy

Everything works, thanks! I think the idea is good, I like it

Sweeeeeet!

Thank you! Will love to hear your thoughts!!!