Once Upon a Rogue's Tale

About this game

"Once Upon a Rogue's Tale” combines strategic roguelike deckbuilding with the luck of the dice. Roll the dice and trade them in battle to play your cards. Dice also allow you to unleash powerful character abilities to your advantage.



Out of combat, you'll encounter events that will confront you with tough decisions. The choices you make will affect how the story unfolds, which will be written down in your personal storybook.

The fairytale worlds have mixed...

Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Frog Prince find themselves in an adventurous tangle of fairytales. Choose one of the classic characters, make your own decisions and influence the course of the story. Team up with strong allies and collect magical items to help you on your way through the colorful fairytale world.

Strategical deepness through positioning

Positioning is especially important in battles with multiple opponents and adds strategic depth to the game. Use certain abilities to influence the position of your characters and apply special effects to your opponents to be able to attack them from anywhere.

Battle between good and evil

Each character has their own motivations that have led them to the good or evil side. But ultimately, the decision is yours: will former villains become new friends or will you turn the entire fairytale world against you? Your actions determine the fate of the fairytale characters and blur the lines between friend and foe.

• Revisit your favourite fairytales in a wholesome anime inspired artstyle
  
• Experience randomly generated runs with high replayability
  
• Gather helpful allies and collect powerful items
  
• Use cards and dice to defeat your opponents
  
• Master the positioning mechanic to unlock a new level of strategy

Latest news

• Patch Notes·28 Jul 2025Official

  Small Patch 06: Once Upon a Rogue's Tale - Early Access

  Bug fixes: Game breaks completely when wonder tendrils or fire tendrils are active on a character and target is defeated before trigger (Special thanks to The RBG for pointing it out and explaining it in detail) In some cases a hover over characters throws an error Swapping dice positions throw error when position is not suppose to be possible
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• Patch Notes·22 Jul 2025Official

  Early Access Update 3: Quality of Life, new Artworks & Balancing

  Hey everyone! We know many of you are eagerly awaiting controller support, and we promise it's still in the works! In the meantime, we're thrilled to bring you a huge Quality of Life update filled with improvements, visual upgrades, and balance changes to make your experience even smoother and more fun. A huge thank you to everyone who sent us emails, comments, bug reports, and messages on Discord – your feedback truly helps us shape the game! New Added new artwork for the Steam library Added a preview button for event options – hovering over it shows a preview of the outcome Added a switch button on the character info panel and ability upgrade panel for characters with alternate forms (e.g. Hansel & Gretel) Added new visuals to the dice selection screen in battle to show team members and their required dice Added a new button for accessing handcard inventory Added a dice count display on the map and in the shop Added new character visuals for Sophia’s Maid and Sophia’s Minion Added new perma card visuals for Sophia’s Maid and Sophia’s Minion Added new character visuals for Smej’s three heads, Helpless Queen, and Real Bad Wolf (Phases 2 and 3) Added unique avatar artwork for every character Added a “don’t show again” option to the Early Access popup in the main menu Added hover details for character cards and dice in the shop Added a new button image to close the book Added new images for the Misery Cards Added new target icon on targetable enemies when selecting an ability Added a text pop up when handcard limit is reached The evil Hunter now spawns hunter dummies when taking damage If you need a certain character for an event choice, their avatar is now shown Changes Completely reworked the loose random handcard event outcome from 1 random selected to choosing 1 of 3 randomly selected handcards from deck Completely reworked the character scroll in the map screen Redesigned the Game Over screen with new artwork Removed italic font styles to improve text readability...
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• Patch Notes·22 Nov 2024Official

  Small Patch 05: Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale – Early Access

  Bug fixes Frog Prince and Jack complete achievements swapped Complete achievements not triggering sometimes Last story parts not appearing after final battle Resetting status of characters triggers error right after a battle Some events not properly set up in chapter 3
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• Patch Notes·19 Nov 2024Official

  Small Patch 04: Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale – Early Access

  Bug fixes Scholar of fairy tales and legends achievement not triggering Fairytale hero achievement not triggering when having all characters in reserve Table-be-unset achievement triggering in basic fights where it's not suppose to I do things i like, the way i like them achievement not triggering at all Trip them up achievement only triggering on allies instead of enemies
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• Patch Notes·11 Nov 2024Official

  Early Access Update 2: Achievements 🏆

  This update for Once Upon a Rogue's Tale introduces Steam Achievements to make your adventures even more thrilling! A special thank you goes out to our amazing Discord community for their fantastic ideas and suggestions for achievements. Your input has helped shape this update, and we appreciate your creativity and support. Join our discord now! New Added 50 Steam Achievements (includes 7 hidden achievements) Changes The dice selection button now has three phases: Select Unused -> Select All -> Select None Exchanged some text with icons (Confirm, Return, Skip etc.) Changed Map icons for Red Riding Hood Boss 1 and 3 Updated legend images of bosses to be better readable Bug fixes Fixed camera shake not working anymore
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