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Jax Games · Published by Jax Games
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Win by emptying your hand. Abjure is a roguelike deckbuilder where the 2 of Spades reigns supreme — draft cards, stack relics, and outplay every opponent in a strategic twist on the Big 2 card game.
Indie, Strategy, Early Access · 2027 · More free games
About this game
Win by emptying your hand.
Abjure is a roguelike deckbuilder built on Big 2 — the classic card game played across East Asia and beyond. Learn it in minutes. Master it over dozens of runs.
How It Plays
Draft your hand from piles between fights
Fight opponents in turn-based card combat — play higher than what they played, or pass
Empty your hand first to win the round
Collect gold, visit the shop, buy shop relics, use shop consumables, and fight again
A boss waits every fourth round
Die and start over — permadeath, no exceptions
Characters
Each character changes how you think about every draft and every fight.
Clairvoyant
Picky
Switcheroo
Dupe
Greedy
Relics
Relics change the rules for the rest of your run. Build around what you find — some reward cutting your deck to the bone, some reward bloating it.
The Shop
Earn gold from fights — more for winning efficiently, more for never passing. Save up to earn interest. Borrow from the Loan Shark if you need it. Spend on cards, removals, reveals, consumables, and fight modifiers.
Game Modes
Roguelike Mode — Pick a character, draft a deck, run eight levels, hit bosses, spend gold, win or die, and go again.
Classic Big 2 — The original card game as a standalone mode, no roguelike layer, for when you just want the cards.
Abjure is in active development by a solo developer. Wishlist now to be notified and follow along through Early Access.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Any GPU supporting Vulkan 1.0 or OpenGL 3.3 (most integrated graphics since 2012)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5 or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated GPU
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
New Update: v0.2 Alpha
TutorialA tutorial is added. The tutorial will be suggested when you start the game for the first time, and you can replay the tutorial by clicking "How to Play" on main menu and then clicking the green "Interactive Tutorial" button near the top of the "How to Play" screen.19 New LanguagesThe game can now be played in:English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, German, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, and CzechHead to Settings → Language to switch anytime.Visual OverhaulNew background art across the Shop, Game Table, Character Select, Pile Select, and moreFreshly designed icons for every relic and every consumableThe Deck & Relics screen is scaled betterShop is simplified and visually more elegant. Hovering over an icon will display the item descriptionCards in hand scale better and auto position more elegantly if there are many rowsWhen you battle an opponent, your relics will be displayed on the right side. You are able to hide/unhide this relic display table by clicking the top right cornerReplayabilityAfter you win a roguelike run, your Prestige level will increase for that character. Prestige is a cumulative difficulty stacking effect, see how far you can go! You can think of Prestige similar to the Ascension system from Slay the Spire.Additionally, you can unlock different starting decks for each character.Note: the demo has a Prestige cap of 5/20 and starting deck cap of 3/13Gameplay fixThe relics, Disrupter and Sabotage, which let you add low cards to opponent's hand when you pass your turn, now lets you choose up to the max allowed amount of cards to add or just pass normally. This stops infinite loops under certain circumstances.Steam Cloud Sync is also added and enabled!Please update and launch the free demo to play. Early access build can be live anytime, but this is being held off to gather more player feedback from the demo first.Read full article on Community Announcements (Big Chungus)
