Developer Gigantic Byte announced on February 4th, “Cut the Cards“announced. The compatible platform is PC (Steam), and it is scheduled to be released in 2025.
Cut the Cards is a deck-building strategy game with roguelike elements. Players use cards to complete battles and text-based events, and explore a medieval fantasy world on automatically generated maps.
In this game, you can create new cards by cutting the descriptions of cards with scissors and pasting them together. It seems that card effects can be combined using cut and paste techniques. For example, if you cut Poison from a card called Poison frogs and paste it into Archery, you can create a Poison arrow.
It also seems possible to create new effects by extracting other words from among words. In the released trailer, only ice is extracted from the word chalices (cups) in the Goblets description and combined with Dagger flurry to create an ice-attribute dagger. The game reportedly uses a custom natural language processing engine that determines the effects of newly created cards. Please note that this work does not include a large-scale language model.
Physics calculations are used in battles; for example, if you use an arrow card, the arrow will actually fly towards the enemy. As a result of physical calculations, it seems that if it does not hit the enemy, it will not be able to deal damage. You will probably create and use appropriate cards by looking at the monster’s behavior and weaknesses.
Cards can also be used during text-based events. In the trailer, the player stands in front of a river, cuts out ark from shark and row from arrow and combines them to create the sentence “Row the ark”, creating a boat and crossing the river. It is said that there will be hundreds of types of cards, and the gameplay will involve thinking not only about the effects of the cards you have, but also what kind of cards can be created by combining them.
『Cut the Cards』はPC（Steam) is scheduled to be released in 2025.
