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Burn Pile
Desktop poker-deckbuilder roguelike
A single-player Western-supernatural roguelike from the Desperados Destiny universe. Cards you sacrifice are gone for good — until you find a Sacred Site.
What you do in Burn Pile
- ♦Sacrifice cards to win a hand — they're gone for the rest of the run
- ♦Six archetypes: Gunslinger, Shadow, Dealer, Spirit-Walker, Iron Architect, Trailblazer
- ♦Three acts of branching, procedurally laid maps
- ♦46 hand-written scenarios with branching endings
- ♦190 items and 226 recipes to build a run around
- ♦Sacred Sites are the only way to get a burned card back
Under the hood
- ·TypeScript, React 18, Vite 6, Zustand 5, tested with Vitest
- ·Electron builds for Windows, macOS and Linux
- ·itch.io first
How Burn Pile is built
TypeScriptReact 18Vite 6Zustand 5VitestElectron
Common questions
- What kind of game is Burn Pile?
- A single-player roguelike deckbuilder — poker hands instead of a card-battler, with permanent card sacrifice.
- Can I play it yet?
- Not yet. It is in development, with desktop builds planned for itch.io first.