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Snako Production · Published by Infini Fun
Very Positive — 90% positive (237 reviews)
Last updated 2 Oct 2026
Golden Swirl is a dark fantasy, semi-real-time action deckbuilder. Master tactical movement to dodge fierce attacks while managing your hand. Fully voiced with custom heroes, fine-tune your deck, relics, and runes to repel the Swirl. Can you survive the madness?
Action, Indie, Strategy · 2026 · More free games
In Golden Swirl, navigate through perilous challenges by mastering strategic card play. Voice acting brings vivid heroes to life as you build a powerful deck to confront the swirling madness.
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About the Game
This is a deckbuilder, but you survive by strategically dodging every attack.
This is not merely a card game. it is a life-and-death struggle. Golden Swirl breaks the mold, seamlessly fusing the depth of deckbuilding strategy with the adrenaline of action-combat evasion.
Calculated Strategy - Construct your unique deck, equip bizarre relics, and carefully plan your route through the abyss.
Life-or-Death Execution - Move, dodge, and seize the perfect moment to play your cards amidst the clash of steel and magic.
Mind and reflexes are both essential, a single moment of hesitation, and you will meet your end in the very next room.
Game Features
Deckbuilding Strategy × Semi-Real-Time Action
Utilize the timing of every card played to reposition and adjust your attack vectors. Break free from the static, turn-based exchanges of traditional card games!
Every deck you build dictates your combat rhythm. Strategy and execution! you cannot survive without both.
4 Characters × Deep Customization
The full release features 4 distinct characters, each with their own unique starting relics and card pools.
Dive deep into character customization, tailor your build to perfectly match your preferred playstyle.
Cards × Relics × Runes: A Threefold Synergy
Over 100 relics, 120 cards, and a rich array of card runes allow you to forge unique builds tailored to each character's traits.
Discover deep synergies between cards, triggering these chained mechanisms will exponentially amplify their effects.
Greed × Fear
Every choice you make ripples through the "Golden Will." These events dictate your path forward and silently erode your character's state, subtly yet fundamentally twisting your deck's composition.
Confronted with choices and trials, the whims of fate are tested directly against the deck in your hands. The successes or failures born of calculated risks are a cruel double-edged sword.
Procedural Dungeons × Interactive NPCs
Every expedition generates a unique array of maps, enemies, NPCs, and treasures. Your choices will permanently alter your combat rewards and resource progression.
Not every soul you encounter is a friend—from maddened merchants to silent swordsmen, over 20 NPCs harbor their own tragic tales, heavily warped by the swirling abyss.
The Swirl × The Nameless One
In the primordial age, the Golden God nurtured all creation, only for the "Great Dreamer" to invade this realm descending through the Star-Slik. Eldritch whispers drove the living into a cannibalistic frenzy. Ultimately, the deities fell, and the Black Moon twisted into a colossal Swirl poised to devour everything.
In their final despair, the survivors united to forge one last glimmer of hope—you, "The Nameless One." You must step into the treacherous Golden Swirl, sworn to uncover the ultimate truth behind this apocalyptic cataclysm.
The ever-shifting, shattered realm ensures no two journeys are ever alike. You will embark on your crusade from disparate starting area, armed with mysterious boons.
Traversing this abyss of madness and whispers is an extreme trial of endurance. At the end of this grueling gauntlet awaits a mysterious and unspeakable culmination
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 10/11 (64-bi)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 or higher
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated GPU (e.g., NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or equivalent)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 5 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Game Update and Bug Fixes: v1.0.5
Dear players,Thank you all for playing our game, as well as your feedback, opinions, and suggestions.Below are the details of the game update and bug fixes in version v1.0.5.Game System UpdateAdded "Guide" to the pause menu. You can now read tutorial pages at any time.Added a hint showing whether the Abyss can be entered.Relic choices now show a rarity effect.Hovering over a summon now shows its intent.Updated Swirl Breaching events. It now shows more dialogue and changes at higher Swirl Breaching levels.Card BugfixChain CardsFixed a bug where chain projectiles could hit an enemy that had already been hit earlier in the same chain.Phantom (Purple)Phantom Flight - The aim preview now matches the actual width of the projectile. Fixed a bug where the synergy attack could hit the same enemy twice.Cosmic (Yellow)Arc Crossbow - Fixed a bug where chained hits fire 3 projectiles instead of 1.StatusFatigue - Corrected the description: the next redraw draws 1 fewer card, not 1 fewer card per stack. The effect itself is unchanged.Fixed a bug where stacking Fatigue could make attacks heal their target instead of damaging it.Fixed a bug where Restrict could not reduce your redraw to 0 cards. Previously, at least 1 card was always drawn.Fixed a bug where Restrict left over from the previous combat could reduce your opening hand.Fixed a bug where an enemy hit by Immobilize while dashing could teleport when the effect ended.StageFixed a bug where sometimes being hit by a Single Attack made you briefly invincible, so another attack landing at the same moment dealt no damage.Fixed a bug where the corpse of Silver Bride in Carlos Stoneton blocked dashes and projectiles.Fixed a bug where a monster's Blink Attack dealt damage before the blink instead of after it.Fixed a bug where sometimes a Dash Attack by monsters cannot hit the player.Fixed a bug where sometimes an Area Attack by monsters does not show a damage preview.Enemy in the Swirl now no longer applies Handicap.Fixed visual iss...Read full article on Community Announcements (Gustav)Patch NotesOfficial
Game Update and Bug Fixes: v1.0.4a
Dear players,Thank you all for playing our game, as well as your feedback, opinions, and suggestions.Below are the details of the game update and bug fixes in version v1.0.4a.Game Bug FixesFixed a bug where clicking “Back To Menu” on the reward screen would crash the UI.Read full article on Community Announcements (Gustav)Patch NotesOfficial
Game Update and Bug Fixes: v1.0.4
Dear players,Thank you all for playing our game, as well as your feedback, opinions, and suggestions.Below are the details of the game update and bug fixes in version v1.0.4.Game Update and Bug FixesAdded the option "Pause on Redraw Ready". When enabled, the game automatically pauses as soon as a redraw becomes available."Pause on Play" now consistently pauses the game after you play a card, regardless of your situation (even if you have no redraw and no SP).Added the option "Camera Shake" to turn camera shake on or off.You can now zoom the camera out with the mouse wheel. On a controller, hold LB to zoom out and LT to zoom in.Card Balance and Bug FixesBomb CardsFixed a bug where the damage shown on bomb cards did not include your buffs.Fixed a bug where a planted bomb's range indicator did not update when its radius was increased by an effect.Phantom (Purple)Phantom Flight - Fixed a bug where Phantom Flight's dash landed on the enemy's center instead of its edge. Also fixed a bug where Phantom Flight could fail when its projectile hit a bomb.StatusFixed a bug where some debuffs were not removed on redraw and could carry over into the next combat.RelicFixed a bug where the effects of Chitinous Mirage, Cage of the Fallen that increase SP cost did not affect 0-cost cards.StageVisual updated all stages, including corridor and combat.Updated the Kthura’Dian combat in The Swirl. Fixed a bug where Kthura’Dian did not change to Invincible immediately when the conditions were met.Fixed a bug where monsters in The Swirl may spawn at incorrect locations.GeneralCards now display a rarity effect that matches their rarity.Fixed a bug where some legacy items are listed in The Omniscient.Event icons in corridors now stay visible instead of only appearing on hover.Fixed a bug where the synergy hint popup sometimes doesn’t work in some languagesFixed a bug where the chapter indicator could show a different stage from the one you are in right after a combat.Fixed a bug where text cli...Read full article on Community Announcements (Gustav)Patch NotesOfficial
Game Update and Bug Fixes: v1.0.3
Dear players,Thank you all for playing our game, as well as your feedback, opinions, and suggestions.Below are the details of the game update and bug fixes in version v1.0.3.Card Balance and Bug FixesEndurance (Blue)Crystal GreatShield - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare.Explosive Momentum - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare.Deflecting Stance - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare.Swirl Force - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare.Wish of Fate - SP: 3 ⇒ 4. Second Synergy: Removed.Safe Detonation - Bomb damage: 8 ⇒ 15. Bomb area increased.Kinetic Bomb - Bomb damage: 8 ⇒ 15. Bomb area increased.Pyroscale Flask - Bomb damage: 8 ⇒ 15. Synergy: damage 15 ⇒ 30. Bomb area increased.Ignition Spark - SP: 3 ⇒ 1.Brute (Red)Spectral Spiral - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare.Bide and Evade - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare.Three-Step Kill - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare.Nightfall Penta-Sunder - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare.Roar of Berserk - SP: 2 ⇒ 1. Effect: Gain 3 Roar of Berserk. ⇒ Gain 1 Roar of Berserk. Synergy: Gain 5 Roar of Berserk. ⇒ Gain 2 Roar of Berserk.Cosmic (Yellow)Rain of Stars - Temporarily removed from the game. The card’s effect does not meet our design expectations. The card will return after a remake.Realm-Shattering Thunder - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare.Requiem of the Fallen Star - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare.Cosmic Focus - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare.Wisdom (Orange)Celestial Anomaly - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare.Minor Explosion - Bomb damage: 8 ⇒ 15. Bomb area increased.Spirit Bomb - Bomb damage: 8 ⇒ 15. Bomb area increase. Effect: Dmg +10 for all planted bombs ⇒ Dmg +20 for all planted bombsGrand Explosion - Bomb damage: 8 ⇒ 15. Bomb area increased.Spirit Fuel - SP: 3 ⇒ 2.Forbidden (Black)Wish of Reflection - Rarity: Normal ⇒ Rare. Effect: Drawn card SP cost -2 ⇒ -1.Will Eater - First Synergy: SP cost -2. Gain a fleeting copy. ⇒ Dmg +20. Increase area. Second Synergy: Dmg +20. Increase area. ⇒ SP cost -2. Gain a fleeting copy.Phantom Step - SP: 4 ⇒ 6Demonic Power - SP: 4 ⇒ 6. Effect: Gain 10 Strength ⇒ Gain 5 Strength.Demon Portal - SP: 4 ⇒ 6Desecrated Ground - SP: 4...Read full article on Community Announcements (Gustav)Patch NotesOfficial
Update Roadmap
Hello, players and friendsIt's been a week since Golden Swirl launched. Thank you for your support, for playing, and for every review you've taken the time to write. The team has been following community discussions around the clock, and we know the game still has plenty of room for polish and improvementTo make every build as good as it can be, here is our update roadmap, shared with you in full.Phase 1: Core Experience Hotfixes and PolishOur absolute priority right now is making sure everyone has a smooth and genuinely fun baseline experience.Overall balance and polish: We've heard how much you want a deeper gameplay experience and better replayability. The team is already working on the difficulty curve and pacing, so that different playstyles get clearer feedback as players get to grips with real-time action combined with cards.Extreme challenge expansion: For hardcore players who have already mastered the core mechanics and want more, we're revisiting and fine-tuning the existing high-difficulty modes. We're also preparing a brand-new, more challenging difficulty tier, for the truly skilled to take on.Performance and bug fixes: Genuine thanks to everyone who reported issues right away. We've put together a list of known issues and we're working flat out on hotfixes. You can expect patches to roll out frequently over the coming days, so we can fix these issues as efficiently as possible and give you the most stable environment to play in.Phase 2: System and Content ExpansionOnce the baseline experience is solid, we'll pour a large amount of new content into the game, expanding Golden Swirl's depth and variety further.Dating system and multiple endings: The game will add a brand-new dating system (placeholder name). As your relationships with certain NPCs develop, you'll gradually unlock entirely different endings and content.Combat archetype expansion: A new batch of equipment, cards, and relics. This will add more variety to deck-building.Phase 3: Deeper Stages...Read full article on Community Announcements (Gustav)
