A card roguelite that spends years of your life instead of gold
LIFELINE turns choice cards into literal lifespan, and when your character dies the story just moves on to their kid.
By Rhodri Vaughan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
Most roguelites make you spend gold, ammo or hit points. LIFELINE, a free browser card game from Spanish student developer David, asks you to spend actual years off your character's life, and it does not seem terribly sorry about it. The pitch, straight from the store page, is a narrative roguelite built on a single unusual dial: important choices can cost you literal years of your remaining lifespan. Say yes to the wrong duel, the wrong deal, the wrong midnight favour, and you have not lost a resource bar, you have lost a decade you were saving for later. Say no too often, presumably, and...