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

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