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Last updated 28 Sept 2026
A roguelike deck-builder set in Japanese mythology. Build a team of Yokai, equip charms and curses, and fight your way through the underworld to face Izanami herself.
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Indie, Strategy, Early Access · 2026 · More under £5 games
About this game
Features
The Yokai Dream Team: Mix and match Yokai, Charms, and Cursed Items for endless build variety.
The Yokai Compendium: Immerse yourself in a world inspired by Japanese mythology with lore entries for every creature you encounter.
Elemental Affinities: Every Yokai carries an elemental power. Exploit type advantages for devastating 50% bonus damage, and stack matching elements on your field to trigger powerful synergy effects each turn.
Yokai Bonds: Field two Yokai who share a bloodline, tribe, or element and watch them empower each other — bonded pairs gain bonus attack for the rest of the battle.
Item Crafting Bonds: Combine items from your deck into a single upgraded version. Reduces deck bloat and creates unique hybrid effects.
Daily Challenge: Every day brings a new seeded run — same map, same choices for every player. Compete on Steam leaderboards and prove your mastery of the underworld.
The Underworld Awaits Your Command
The goddess Izanami descended into the Land of the Dead… and she never returned. Now, the veil is torn. Ancient Yokai wage war across cursed battlefields, and the silence of the underworld is broken by the ticking of the clock. In this roguelike deck-builder, timing is the difference between legend and oblivion.
The Battle of Seconds
Forget traditional turns.
The Counter System: Every Yokai card acts on its own internal timer. When the counter hits zero, they strike.
Tactical Positioning: Place your units on a side-by-side battlefield where proximity and timing collide.
Forge Your Legend
Start with a lone hero and a meager deck, then harvest the power of the dead to grow your army.
Collect & Evolve: Discover dozens of unique Yokai, each with abilities that can chain into devastating combos.
Cursed items: Apply Frost, Rage, and Poison — or drop a curse that pins enemies in place and blows them apart. The rules exist to be broken.
The Charm System: Permanently augment your favorite cards with Charms.
A Map of Shifting Shadows
Navigate a branching underworld where every node is a gamble. Will you seek to avoid conflict or accumulate power at every chance? Every path leads deeper into the dark, culminating in boss battles against legends like the eight-headed Yamata-no-Orochi or the skeletal Gashadokuro.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11
- Processor: 4GHZ
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GRAPHICS 2GB Dedicated GPU Memory
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Update — The Final Descent: Level 5 Now Unlocked (v0.86 EA)
The deepest layer of Yomi-no-Kuni is now open. Here's what's waiting for you:Level 5: The Darkness — the final stage of the underworld, themed around shadow and despair. The hardest challenge the game has to offer in Early AccessIzanami — the goddess of death herself awaits as the final boss. Survive three levels of the underworld to face herDifficulty escalation — enemies in later levels now have increased HP and ATK the deeper you descend, making each level a meaningful step up in challengeWe'd love to hear what you think — drop your feedback in the Discord channel or in the Discussion forum.Read full article on Community Announcements (KZ Games)Patch NotesOfficial
New patch update (v0.85 EA)
Level 4 available after completing level 3 during the play through.New enemies in Level 4: Kamaitachi, Kyubi, Tengu, Nure Onna, Raiju and Byobunozoki.New Glossary room explaining all the abilities and status effects. This is accessible from the level selection screen.Added the card’s ability icons at the bottom right of the card, allowing the player to see how many abilities it has.Added additional descriptive text for abilities and status effects.Added headings in the card detailed view to explain when the effects apply eg. \, \Added missing status effect icons.Added a Feedback link on the title screen which will take you to the Discord channel.Fixed issue Iron scale applying to target card even when it didn’t do the killing attack.Fixed issue with Ink effect disabling cards with barrage or aimless attacks altogether.Fixed Achievement issues for Survivor, Veteran and Traveler.Fixed visual issue where player card was shown as bonded with an enemy card.BalanceKitsune — ATK 2 -> 1, Counter 3 -> 4. Still hits all enemies with barrage but slower and softer. Susanoo — HP 15 ->12, lightning strike 3 ->2.Read full article on Community Announcements (KZ Games)Patch NotesOfficial
Hotfix patch May 4th
Fixed a crash when starting a new game saveFixed an issue where the player can't escape out of the card popup details with hotkeyRead full article on Community Announcements (KZ Games)Patch NotesOfficial
Crash hotfix coming
Hi all,There has been reports of the game crashing upon starting a new save game. If you reload the game and try again it should work. Sorry about the incovenience, we're working on a hotfix patch for it.Read full article on Community Announcements (KZ Games)AnnouncementsOfficial
Yomi-no-Kuni Early Access — What's Coming Next
Thank you so much for playing Yomi-no-Kuni! We're excited to share what we're working on. This is your game as much as ours, so your feedback will shape everything below.🔥 Milestone 1 — Stability & BalanceBefore anything else, we're listening. The first milestone is all about making sure the foundation is rock solid.Bug fixes based on your reportsBalance pass on card stats, gold economy, and wave difficultyQuality-of-life improvements to UI and gamepad supportGeneral polish based on community feedbackIf you find a bug or something feels off, please post in #support on Discord — every report helps. ⚔️ Milestone 2 — New Content DropThis is the big one. A wave of new content is coming to expand your runs and shake up your strategy.New Yokai Cards More companions to recruit, each with unique abilities, bond effects, and playstyles. Expect new elemental affinities and synergies to discover.New Abilities & Items New on-play, on-attack, and passive abilities hitting the card pool. New item cards to spend gold on at the shop and rest sites.New Charms & Curses More charms to find at shrines, and new curses that make your runs more dangerous — and more rewarding. 🗺️ Milestone 3 — Deeper into the Underworld & Cursed ModeThe world of Yomi-no-Kuni grows darker the further you descend — and now every day brings a new challenge.New Levels Additional cursed levels of the underworld, each with their own enemy pool, boss, and atmosphere. New boss Yokai with special mechanics that demand new strategies.New Heroes More playable heroes to unlock, each bringing a unique starting deck and passive ability that changes how you approach every run.☠️ Cursed Mode (Daily Challenge) Every day, a new curse descends on Yomi-no-Kuni. Can you survive it?Cursed Mode is a daily challenge where everyone plays the same seed with a unique modifier active for that day. Compete for the top score on the global leaderboard and see how you stack up against other players around the world.Each day brings a diff...Read full article on Community Announcements (KZ Games)
