Take up your cross. Fight through Purgatory as a crusader, with the saints at your side and demons in your path.
You are a crusader fighting through Purgatory. Each climb takes you across twelve floating islands, with a battle at every step. Return to the Waystation between attempts and set out with a fresh deck. Wear medals of real saints and read the day's Gospel before you depart.
The souls in Purgatory are bound for Heaven. Demons have invaded their path to Heaven's Gate, and even the angels don't know how they got in.
You die on campaign with a spear through you. You wake to the smell of sulphur and something breathing in the dark. You think you're in Hell until your guardian angel tells you otherwise.
Hell? No, no, no. This is Purgatory. How would an angel end up in Hell with you?
Demons block the souls making their ascent through Purgatory. At the Waystation, the Keeper gathers reports from the climbs. He needs someone who can find out what's gone wrong.
Something is bending the climbs, and I'm the angel currently failing to make sense of it.
When a climb fails, you return to the Waystation. Most reports the Keeper receives are incomplete or contradictory. You remember where you went and what you fought. He needs you to go back.
Then mark the route and send me again.
Every hand gives you four cards to work with. Use some to block attacks and keep others to play. Discard a card to pay for another, or pledge one to play next turn. How you use each card changes what you can do with the rest.
Your HP refills after every fight, but bleed, poison and scars carry into the next battle. Hazards can also mark cards in your deck. Those marks stay until you remove them.
Stays on you
Stays on your cards
Climb twelve steps across a mountain of floating islands. Choose your next fight at each step. Hazards and strangers along the way can change your deck.
Replace a card, upgrade one, or take a blessing.
Try a few cards from the Sword's starting deck. Deal again to see more.
Each weapon has its own starting cards and temperance ability. Halfway through a Sword climb, choose between two forge upgrades.
Medals grant you special powers that make each climb different. Select one below to read what it does.
Win or lose, you return to the Waystation. Talk to its residents, claim achievement rewards, or read the day's Gospel before your next climb.
Read the day's Gospel from the Church's calendar at the Waystation window.
Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Matthew 16:24
Earn achievements across your climbs. Claim them to level up your collection. Each level gives you a booster pack that unlocks cards, medals and equipment for future climbs.
Each victory opens a harder climb. Take on greater penance as enemies grow stronger and each hand asks more of you.
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