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Book of Demons

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Book of Demons
Description
Book of Demons is a Hack & Slash Deck-building hybrid in which YOU decide the length of quests. Wield magic cards instead of weapons and slay the armies of darkness in the dungeons below the Old Cathedral. Save the terror-stricken Paperverse from the clutches of the Archdemon himself! Procedur...
Genre:
Action - Role-playing - Fantasy
Tags:
Action, Fantasy, Role-playing, Atmospheric, Isometric, show 7 more... Roguelike, Roguelite, Hack and Slash, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Zombies, Deckbuilding
Critics reviews
62 %
Recommend
PC Invasion
3.5/5 stars
COGconnected
80/100
GamingTrend
85/100
User reviews

4/5

( 113 Reviews )

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Product details
2018, Thing Trunk, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 / 8 / 10, 1.7 GHz Dual Core or Greater, 2 GB RAM, 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics...
DLCs
Book of Demons - Collector's Content
Description

Book of Demons is a Hack & Slash Deck-building hybrid in which YOU decide the length of quests. Wield magic cards instead of weapons and slay the armies of darkness in the dungeons below the Old Cathedral. Save the terror-stricken Paperverse from the clutches of the Archdemon himself!

Procedurally Generated Dungeons
Roguelike Mode for fans of extreme challenge
70+ different types of monsters, with different traits and custom mechanics
Twitch and Mixer integration
Monthly and all-time Leaderboards, 200+ Achievements

Book of Demons is the first installment of Return 2 Games - a series of original mid-core titles, inspired by the early golden days of PC gaming.

Cards and Deckbuilding


It’s not a card game, but items, spells, and skills are all expressed as cards. The strategy lies in adapting your hand to each situation. Cards can be upgraded with runes and you can find many variants with diverse bonuses. Legendaries are the most epic but hard to acquire.

Tailored sessions with Flexiscope


Book of Demons respects your time. It features the Flexiscope engine which allows you to divide the game into sessions of any size. It even learns your pace of gaming and predicts the time to complete the next session.

Unique Mechanics


Simplified movement and fight mechanics is where Book of Demons differs the most from other hack & slash games. There is often not enough time to click-remove all of the obstacles such as monster shields, enemy spells, poison, or knocked cards, so timing, card selection and order of execution are critical.

Hack & Slash in the world of Paperverse


Book of Demons takes place in Paperverse, a world that exists entirely inside a pop-up book.
It’s a tale of good and evil about saving the world from the ultimate devilry. Sounds familiar? Inspired by the dark and gloomy atmosphere of the first Diablo game, Book of Demons is part tribute part parody of hack & slash classics.

Comfort of Gameplay


Many Book of Demons features were designed with gameplay comfort in mind. Points of interest are marked at the top of the screen and get revealed once you get closer. Your character leaves footprints, which can be used to track your way back or notice paths already visited without opening the map.

Challenging Endgame


On average it takes about 10 hours to complete the campaign with a single class, but maxing out a character and mastering all of the higher Freeplay difficulty levels and Quests takes much longer. The Roguelike mode offers another level of challenge with permadeath, restricted healing and even more obstacles to overcome.
Popular achievements
Trek
Unlock medium flexiscope game size
common  ·  55.3%
Voyage
Unlock big flexiscope game size
common  ·  35.54%
Adept Bone Collector
Defeat 10 Skeletons
common  ·  83.61%
Master Bone Collector
Defeat 100 Skeletons
common  ·  56.03%
Adept Exterminator
Defeat 10 Spiders
common  ·  34.6%
Master Exterminator
Defeat 100 Spiders
common  ·  30.5%
Adept Ghostbuster
Defeat 10 Ghosts
common  ·  30.93%
Adept Survivor
Defeat 10 Zombies
common  ·  70.53%
Master Survivor
Defeat 100 Zombies
common  ·  50.85%
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Game details
Genre:
Action - Role-playing - Fantasy
Tags:
Action, Fantasy, Role-playing, Atmospheric, Isometric, show 7 more... Roguelike, Roguelite, Hack and Slash, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Zombies, Deckbuilding
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Mac OS X (10.12+)
Release date:
{{'2018-12-13T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Company:
Thing Trunk / Thing Trunk
Size:
770 MB
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DLCs
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Critics reviews
76
Top Critic Average
62 %
Critics Recommend
OpenCritic Rating
PC Invasionby Jason Rodriguez
3.5/5 stars
Delightful, fun, quirky -- Book of Demons keeps you entertained as it provides a unique take on what Diablo and the ARPG genre provides. Unfortunately, it also becomes repetitive and aimless towards the end.
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COGconnectedby Lillian King
80/100
I’ve touched on the art style, but it really is gorgeous and unique, with paper outlines and great visuals. This, combined with the Flexisphere, which understands the limitations of modern gamers’ time better than any game I’ve seen, and with its streamlined mechanics and entertaining deck-building system, Book of Demons is definitely worth checking out.
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GamingTrendby Bryan Lawver
85/100
Book of Demons introduces a unique card-based skill system and a sense of humor to the stuck-in-its-ways ARPG genre. It has plenty of tricks in its dungeon to keep you on your toes, but gives you ample ways to form your own strategy. With three distinct classes and an endlessly replayable quest, you can get lost in Book of Demons' papercut dungeon for quite a while.
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Posted on: June 20, 2025

Mroczusygo

Verified owner

Games: 619 Reviews: 1

Nice Demon killing

Gotta admit. Some people really like to kill demons. But this game is only getting started fro me.

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Posted on: December 17, 2018

RavrakSmith

Verified owner

Games: 137 Reviews: 5

Great game I'll never finish

Great game. Lost all progres and items due to clogged up corpse impossible to recover. But up to this point I had a lot of fun.

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Posted on: March 23, 2024

Arcangle

Verified owner

Games: 184 Reviews: 4

Not really a deckbuilder, barely an ARPG

I went into this hoping for something between an isometric dungeon crawler and Slay the Spire and was disappointed on both counts. In each level, there is a grid of paths that your character can walk on. If you're near an enemy your character will auto-attack, a bit like Vampire Survivors, but you'll want to click on them to speed things up. Move your mouse cursor over piles of cash to collect them. Occasionally you'll pick up cards: either spells which make monsters die a bit faster or artefacts which make you die a bit slower. They're not played like cards in a deck builder but equipped in spell slots and can be used whenever you have enough mana, but in the time I played there was no reason to use spells so long as you keep clicking on the baddies (or remaining in the same general area as them). As ARPGs go it's more threadbare than the original Diablo, which is nearly 30 years old now. As deck builders go, well, it just isn't one. Sigh.

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Posted on: August 12, 2024

Savagesouls

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Games: 351 Reviews: 61

Loosers

Hey Thing Trunk, No one care about your political opinions.

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Posted on: September 8, 2024

RedViper100

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Games: 109 Reviews: 1

It wont run

It doesnt run

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