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Grist

Chironex Studios

Explore the many lands of the Shell World Atropos, leading your party in strategic card-based battles and TTRPG-style story choices and skill tests. Plan routes, tackle tough bosses, and press your luck but beware: things in Atropos are not always as they appear.

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About This Game

ASCII-driven Sci-Fi RPG GRIST is a table-top inspired party roguelite and card battler. Delve into the tiered lands of the mysterious Shell-World Atropos, exploring it's cities, forests, oceans, and more. Fight against the nightmare plague that threatens the trillions of lives of Atropos, and search for its source in the heart of the planet.

GRIST draws on a heritage of table-top RPGs, gamebooks, and classic CRPGs from the 1980s, resynthesizing them into a glowing terminal-wave aesthetic with driving basslines, exploding ASCII particles, and a healthy dose of existential horror.

  • Build your Order Deck by choosing who goes in your party, and what equipment they have.

  • Take advantage of positioning in combat to avoid attacks, gain buffs, and out-manouever your enemy.

  • Equip powerful items that can change how orders play and interact.

  • Plot map routes to maximize levelling, locate advanced weaponry, or undertake sidequests that unlock new items and classes.

  • Acquire permanent upgrades that improve your team's survivability and unlock build-defining abilities.

  • Each boss is a puzzle: find the combinations of Orders, Items, and Equipment that turn a 10-foot slavering nightmare into an obediant puppy.

Join us in Early Access and experience Grist as it grows and develops!

Community Activity

  1. GristSteam announcement

    Demo deactivation

    I have decided to deactivate the demo version of the game. The work it takes to ensure the demo is current and accurately reflects the main build is taking away from the time I…

  2. GristSteam patch notes

    Minor hotfix

    * Corrected End-Of-Turn procs when the target plays a Slow action. For example, prevents premature removal of Confusion status effect.

  3. GristSteam patch notes

    Patch 0.4.029

    * Corrected drawn position of sentinel program enemy * Fixed behaviour of pushing attacks with entities that occupy more than one tile * Fixed display of damage reduction on…

  4. GristSteam patch notes

    0.4.028

    - Fixes potential infinite loop using Pressure Wave

  5. GristSteam patch notes

    0.4.027

    - Prevents crash on some garden tiles with null or no missions on them - Prevents having to fight a 0HP ballista after defeating it once

  6. GristSteam announcement

    Mission 3: DEFRAG

    This update expands the variety of tools at your disposal in Grist, and adds a new enemy to use them on! To find the new boss fight, as well as new location types, select the…

  7. GristSteam patch notes

    0.4.026b

    - prevented elevators with completed boss fights from spawning new bossfights if you leave and return - adjusted comms tower item drops

  8. GristSteam patch notes

    Update: New mission added "DEFRAG"

    Patch 0.4.026 Additions: - New mission "Defrag" - New character mods available as rewards from Weapons Cache locations - New weapons and consumable items available for purchase…

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