Fit check
Is Tendryll worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Deckbuilder fans who want battles that depend on grid positioning
- Strategy players who enjoy coordinating a team of heroes with distinct abilities
- Roguelike players who like choosing between risky upgrades and safer health recovery
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking real-time combat rather than turn-based encounters
- Players who prefer a fixed campaign structure over runs built around changing cards, relics, and runes
- Players looking for large-scale military command or persistent squads
Our take on Tendryll
Deckbuilders often center on card choices and enemy encounters; Tendryll also makes battlefield positioning central. Movement cards, repositioning skills, and terrain that alters cards connect spatial tactics directly to deck management.
What is Tendryll?
Tendryll combines grid-based, turn-based battles with roguelike deckbuilding.
Choose heroes whose abilities work together, then manage separate move decks that provide each hero with a move card every turn. Attacks and skills can reposition heroes and enemies, including knocking foes into walls or throwing units across the battlefield. Terrain can alter cards, while runes modify cards with effects such as doubling block or replaying a card. During a run, map nodes let players swap in new move cards.
Heroes find card-altering runes, movement cards, and class-defining relics while choosing between riskier upgrades and safer health recovery. Shops and black markets offer anomalies that can reward free items at the risk of paying with a life. The campaign has 3 acts, 5+ bosses, and 35+ unique encounters.
How Tendryll plays
- 01Guaranteed Move Draw
- Each hero draws a guaranteed move card every turn, and map nodes allow new movement cards to be added.
- 02Card-Enhancing Runes
- Runes can add effects such as doubling block, granting Invisibility, or playing a card twice.
- 03Positioning Skills
- Attacks and abilities can move units, including sending enemies into walls or throwing heroes and enemies across the battlefield.
- 04Run Structure
- The campaign includes 3 acts, 5+ bosses, 35+ unique encounters, and 10 ascension levels.
- 05Unlockable Rewards
- More than 30 bounties can unlock heroes, relics, and potions.
Tendryll compared to similar games
Shogun Showdown also combines turn-based combat, deckbuilding, and roguelike progression, while Tendryll places heroes and their movement cards on a grid. Men of War: Assault Squad focuses on large-scale World War II command with direct control of individual units, rather than hero decks and card-altering runes.
Tendryll: platforms & release
Is Tendryll worth it?
It is worth it if: deckbuilder fans who want battles that depend on grid positioning. Skip it if: players seeking real-time combat rather than turn-based encounters.
Where can I download Tendryll?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Tendryll's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Tendryll on?
Windows only.
