DoomTide

DoomTide

A horror poker roguelike. Survive 9 rounds of cursed Texas Hold'em — the deck wants you dead, and so does the meter at the top of the screen. Made in GameMaker for IGDS Final Project (Spring 2026).

How to play

You play 3 Antes × 3 Blinds (9 rounds total). Every round demands a target score. Build poker hands from your 8-card hand to score, and reach the target before you run out of hands.

Battle controls

- **Click cards** in your hand to select up to 5.

- **Play Hand** — score the selected cards (you have 4 hands per round).

- **Hint** — auto-select the strongest 5-card poker hand from your current hand. Great if you don't speak fluent poker.

- **Discard** — throw away the selected cards and redraw (3 discards per round).

- **Sort: Rank / Suit** — toggle hand sort.

- **Hover the boss icon** — see boss passive.

- **Hover a Doom card** — see its Passive and its Invoke.

- **Click `INVOKE +2`** on a Doom card during play — pay +2 Doom for a one-shot score spike.

Doom (the second life bar)

The 0–10 meter at the top is the only way to die outside of failing a round.

- **Round start** (after every shop):

  - **+N Doom**, where N = number of Doom cards you currently hold.

  - **−1 Doom** for surviving the previous round (cancelled by *Hell Contract*).

- **Mid-round** Doom only rises from *listed* effects on Doom cards, bosses, or your own Invokes — never silently.

- **Doom hits 10 → instant death.** Nothing else kills you from the meter.

The shop and the battle HUD both show a forecast: **"Next round Doom: X → Y / 10"**, so you always know what's coming.

The shop

Between rounds:

- Buy boons (`Soul Comfort`: −2 Doom; `Life Talisman`: +1 Hand; `Forget Rune`: +2 Discards; `Demon Deal`: free new curse).

- **Exorcise** any Doom card for `max(doom × 2, 4)` gold — this is the main lever for staying alive past Ante 2.

Boss blinds (every 3rd round)

| 1： The Whisper -  All card chip values are halved |

| 2： The Watcher - Each face card played: Doom +1, −1 Discard |

| 3:  The Devourer - Each hand played: Doom +1, −1 Hand |

 Win/lose

- Win = beat the third boss.

- Lose = either Doom hits 10, or you run out of hands without reaching the target.