Usurper

About this game

Push your King forward to play your cards on the front lines. Stockpile your Power to afford expensive and powerful units like the Queen and Cannon.





Draft new cards, upgrade your Ruler, and choose powerful gambits to create game-breaking synergies. Build your deck YOUR way and master 4 unique Factions to become the ultimate champion.





One well-placed unit is the difference between victory and defeat. Place new units to counterattack your enemy and swing the battle in your favor. Master your strategy to defeat 13 unique bosses.





Defeat the Overlord in a roguelike campaign with 8 starting decks and 10 difficulty levels. Build your own Custom Deck and challenge other players in online multiplayer.

Latest news

• Patch Notes·13 Mar 2025Official

  Hotfix 1.2.0.3

  Fixed the Cultist deck level unlock text (level 9 -> level 10)
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• Patch Notes·13 Mar 2025Official

  1.2.0 Cultist Update

  New Features Cultist Deck - This deck features a new Ruler with a whacky set of rules. Whenever you capture a unit, your unit is transformed into a new one with the same cost and faction. (unlocked at level 10) Templar Unit - This 2-cost unit has some similarities to the Knight, but offers some unique vertical tactics. Onyx Unit - A new 4-cost unit for Shogunate. Similar to Shogunate's other units, the Onyx is extremely aggressive in the forward direction, but is slow to retreat. (unlocked at level 5) Turret Unit - A 3-cost unit combining the movesets of the Archer and Ranger. Follow the enemy Ruler while forking their units for a powerful tempo swing. (unlocked at level 6) Oracle Unit - This 3-cost unit for Pharaonic is fast to reposition and can deliver a powerful attack, but only in the right circumstances. Can you use it to its full potential? (unlocked at level 8) Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where the Expert achievement would sometimes not unlock properly Fixed a bug where the Autarch boss would break if the player had no cards in their deck
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• Patch Notes·13 Nov 2024Official

  1.1.1 Hotfix

  Fixed bug with music not looping properly Disabled challenge for Vampire deck: "Don't use all of a card's Reserves." Made various AI improvements, mostly related to avoiding check and placing of units
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• Patch Notes·21 Oct 2024Official

  1.1.0 Vampire Update

  Happy Halloween! This is our first major content update for Usurper, including an all new deck to play in Campaign, with a unique Ruler (The Count) and rules. We hope you enjoy it! Features Added new Vampire Deck (unlocked at Level 9) Added Gameplay Tips to round won/lost screens AI Improvements Made AI less likely to place units that could immediately be captured by Ranged units Made AI less likely to miss checkmate Added "Chess Familiarity" popup dictating strength of the AI before reaching level 3 Quality of Life Improved clarity of Overtime description in tutorial and rules Specified highlighted tile for pawn placement in tutorial Improved text readability of card pile hover boxes Bug Fixes Fixed Usurped achievement so that it is properly unlocked Fixed Dealer's Gambit text overflow Fixed bug where vsync was not enabled when uncapping framerate Fixed bug where Decree 7+ Overtime would cause the board to disappear while reviewing As always, if you have feedback or would like to chat more about the game, feel free to join our discord here: https://discord.gg/BPkQVMYQm3
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• Patch Notes·24 Sept 2024Official

  1.0.6 AI Improvements Patch

  This is a minor patch addressing concerns about the intelligence of AI opponents in single player, both at low and high skill levels. Also included are various quality of life improvements and bug fixes. AI Improvements On all decrees higher than 0, opponents now always try to play the best move on all rounds. Opponents no longer consider player negative movement tiles (from Decree 6) to be defended Opponents are more aggressive with checking the player Ruler Opponents are more careful to avoid losing pieces to ranged attacks Opponents are less likely to place a unit on a tile that the Ruler needs to move to in order to avoid checkmate Opponents are now easier on Decree -1, and before the player reaches experience Level 3 Quality of Life Improved spacing of text in Gambit panel Replaced word "pieces" with "units" in deck overview panel in deck selection screen Pause button now closes card preview upon resuming game Player Experience Rewards panel speed now scales with animation speed setting History: Clearing recorded games now immediately activates "No Recorded Games Found" text History: Clear recorded games button no longer clickable if no recorded games are found Replaced "selectable" pulse effect for black pieces with a darker one in local and online multiplayer, in order to make them more distinct from white pieces Updated tyrant description to make it clearer that it resurrects player units on capture Removed mouse offset when dragging, so dragged cards/pieces are always centered on the mouse (should make dragging more precise) Bug Fixes Demoter's Gambit can no longer choose a card that costs 0 Caliph now displays check when attacking player Ruler with jump attacks "Negative Right" upgrade from Decree 6 no longer turns into "Negative Left" upgrade when loading save Fixed bug where "Play X or fewer units" challenge would increase too quickly after rewinding Hovering over the enemy Ruler no longer shows player ranged attacks from player upgrades if both rulers a...
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