Card Knight: Astral Arcana
A real-time action card RPG in a handcrafted HD-2D world — the spirit of Mega Man Battle Network, reborn as a story-driven adventure.
Fact Sheet
- Developer
- Bridgewalker Studios (Darien Bathalter), solo developer
- Title
- Card Knight: Astral Arcana
- Genre
- Real-time action card RPG
- Platforms
- Steam — Windows, Steam Deck / Linux (macOS planned)
- Release
- Steam Early Access — wishlist now on Steam · 1.0 targeted for the 2026 holiday season
- Price
- TBA
- Influences
- Mega Man Battle Network, HD-2D / SNES-era JRPGs
- Steam
- store.steampowered.com/app/4893630
- Website
- cardknightgame.com
- YouTube
- @CardKnightGame
- X / Twitter
- @CardKnightGame
- @cardknightgame
- TikTok
- @cardknightgame
- Card Knight on Facebook
- Contact
- hello@cardknightgame.com (press & general) · support@cardknightgame.com (player support)
About
Card Knight is a real-time action card RPG — no waiting your turn. You run, dodge, and fire off cards live across a grid battlefield, in a handcrafted single-player RPG. Play Oden, a young adventurer who stumbles into a destiny written in cards on his first day at work, and travel a lush HD-2D world: quiet shrine-towns, dark forests, lantern-lit harbors, and the dust-blown Rustmarch — learning the secrets of the Old Card Knight Order along the way.
Key Features
- Real-time card combat — reflexes and deckcraft, not menus and turns.
- A handcrafted HD-2D world — every tile placed by hand.
- Build your deck — collect, craft, and customize; discover synergies that turn the tide.
- A story, voiced — a cast of characters with fully voiced dialogue across a story-driven campaign.
- Native Steam Deck support — built and tested on the Deck.
Trailer
Watch on YouTube — @CardKnightGame. (Trailer link to be added.)
Key Art
Screenshots
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Press contact: hello@cardknightgame.com · Player support: support@cardknightgame.com · cardknightgame.com
© Bridgewalker Studios. Card Knight: Astral Arcana.