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Bag Track Games · Published by Bag Track Games · Official site ↗
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
A dark, turn-based roguelike deckbuilder where poker hands are your weapons and your own puppet body is fair game to sacrifice. Rip off a limb for a desperate edge, refine your deck, and survive one more fight.
Indie, Strategy, Casual · More free games
About this game
Deadhand Theater is a dark, turn-based roguelike deckbuilder where you play poker hands to command your shadow puppet's attacks. Tear off your own limbs mid-battle to trigger a powerful effect exactly when you need it most, but lose what they were quietly giving you the moment they're gone. Build your deck, collect talismans, and find out how much of yourself you can afford to lose.
Strategize and form poker hands, pairs, straights, flushes, wrapping ace-to-ace straights, ten of a kind, and more. A single play can even score as multiple hands at once, a pair, a three of a kind, and a high card all triggering their own effects together.
Sacrifice a body part to trigger its active effect in battle, losing its passive bonus until you find or buy a replacement limb.
Add, remove, and empower cards with sigils as you build your deck across a variety of stage types.
Buy talismans and upgrade them to further enhance your combat capabilities.
Reattach missing body parts with stronger limbs found and purchased throughout your journey.
Overcome challenging hexes and stage modifiers that grow increasingly difficult in later stages.
No shortage of tools in the theater to craft your own performance:
60 talismans
40 sigils
45 hexes
25 grafts
30 stage modifiers
And more to come! We will be adding more items, unique modifiers, bonus levels, and different enemies across varied stage settings. In future releases, you will also be able to choose different starting decks and special characters, each with unique powers, and meta progression will be included to carry improvements across runs!
The Theater is waiting. Are you ready to perform? Even without a head, the body fights on.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 1060
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: RTX 2060
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Supported Languages
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Patch NotesOfficial
Patch v0.3.0 is now live!
DEADHAND THEATER — Update v0.3.0A major overhaul to the map, reward, and tutorial systems, plus significant visual clarity improvements across the board.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📝 CHANGELOG━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Revamped map selection, you can now see all map nodes leading up to the bossSignificantly improved post-battle rewards, buy new cards or remove cards from your deckReworked tutorial with more intuitive, clearer guidance for new playersAdded attack animations for every attack typeAdded hit impact effects for every attack typeAdded animations for all poker hand combinationsAdded feedback for every player action (e.g., "Not enough coins")Added more status effects, including buffs and debuffsImproved lighting in the black market and item shopImproved upgrade forge visuals and usage flow, making upgrades easierThe table now shows how many cards you've selectedAdded card typesAdded the red sigilBalanced the value of certain itemsImproved object movement behaviorImproved enemy behaviorAdded enemy spawn animationsAdded spawn and despawn animations for background propsRedesigned main menu, continue your run, abandon it, and start a new oneAdded an FPS limit slider to SettingsGeneral UI visual improvementsVarious mesh and texture adjustmentsBUG FIXES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Fixed lighting transitions snapping at certain locationsFixed a crash that could occur when killing a boss in certain waysFixed unintended behavior when enemies are killed in certain waysFixed unintended behavior when quitting the game via the pause menuVarious other minor bug fixes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━👀 WHAT'S NEXT━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━...Read full article on Community Announcements (Bag Track Games)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch v0.2.2 is now live!
DEADHAND THEATER — Update v0.2.2Lighting improvements and various updates for in-game clarity━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📝 CHANGELOG━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Significantly improved lighting to better reflect the current stageUpdated stage backdrop positioning and textureOverhauled tutorial contentAdded a guide page for poker hand abilities, also accessible through the deck viewer during battle!Added "EXIT" labels to exit signs in several stagesUpdated poker card colors for better clarityAdded stage labels to the stage selection screenAdded a sign to shop trash cans to clarify talisman sell pricesAdded unique animations for each poker hand abilityAdded effects for sacrificing Grafts to make it feel more impactfulBUG FIXES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Various bug fixes and adjustments━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━👀 WHAT'S NEXT━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Still working on the map and stage selection! We're planning a major overhaul to make stage selection more interesting going forward, with a focus on enabling more strategic choices and adding more variety to every run.There are also other smaller updates in the works. Look forward to future updates, see you in the theater!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━MORE WAYS TO CONNECTDiscord | X | Reddit | Instagram | Bluesky | Youtube- Bag Track GamesRead full article on Community Announcements (Bag Track Games)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch v0.2.0 is now live!
DEADHAND THEATER — Update v0.2.0Today marks the first update for Deadhand Theater! We're excited to share what we've fixed and added so far to improve your experience.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📝 CHANGELOG━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Added 14 new grafts, find out their effects by purchasing them in the black market stage!You can now buy more than one graft in the black marketAdded textures for all 55 talismansAdded buff and damage-over-time icons above the health barRevamped the main menu, pause menu, and profile menuImproved game flow (e.g., defeating the boss now returns you to the main menu)Added audio and video settingsVarious texture adjustmentsBUG FIXES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Fixed upgraded talisman values not persisting after saving and loading your profileFixed unintended boss behaviorVarious other bug fixes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━👀 WHAT'S NEXT━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━For the next update, we'll mainly be focusing on two areas:Intro and stage selection revampFeedback from our playtests has shown that the current intro and stage selection design can be unclear for players. In upcoming updates, we want to better highlight each stage, its modifiers, the player's progression, and what to expect from the game.Lighting improvementsLighting is a key part of getting each stage's feel right, and it's something we've been consistently working on. One example is creating unique lighting for specific in-game events.We still have plenty of ideas in the works. Look forward to future updates!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📢 OTHER NE...Read full article on Community Announcements (Bag Track Games)
