Undead Artisan
Undead Artisan is a single-player card game where you play as a necromancer assembling a servant from body parts. Draw cards from the graveyard deck to find heads, torsos, arms, and legs, along with powerful utility cards. Place body parts onto your resurrection slab, but beware – they decay each turn, losing 'freshness'. If a part's freshness drops to zero, it's discarded.
Manage your 'spiritual essence' resource to play utility cards and assemble parts. Utility cards offer various effects, such as gaining more essence, drawing extra cards, or manipulating the discard pile. Special organ cards provide unique, potent abilities. Your primary goal is to gather a complete set of fresh body parts on your slab:
- Head
- Torso
- Two Arms
- Two Legs
...and use the 'Necronomicon' card to resurrect your servant. Succeed before the graveyard deck is depleted to win! It's a race against time and decay, requiring careful resource and hand management.
Credits:
Created By zw9721 for PixelGameJam-2025
Pixel Artist: Orpheus688, XXXfisher
Music/Sound Designer: XXXfisher
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I'm terrible at card games, but my strategy here was hit the "end turn" button until I had all the body parts in my hand, placed them on the table and used the necronomicon card (that appeared while I was trying to get all the body parts) I noticed that each part doesn't lose freshness in the hand so until i needed to put them on the table i didn't want to.
That seemed to work? but i'm not sure i'm playing as intended.
I love the style of it though, nice creepy atmosphere and definitely on theme :) good stuff!
This is also a way to win. I deliberately didn't limit hand size to avoid making the game too difficult to succeed.
This is an interesting game worth the play, I will say I would prefer if the cursor selection was a bit wider(disregard, I think I was having an issue earlier, but it seems to have improved while I was playing), but otherwise good game!
Thanks for your feedback
一个非常有趣的纸牌游戏！画面也很漂亮！我在玩游戏时尝试了很多策略
Really good art style, idea is really cool you need a good strategy to win this game I liked that !
We have too many interesting gameplay options to add to the game, and the development time is really short
This is an interesting card game worth playing