Description
The Ruined Path (Shipping Summer 2026)
A Solo Fantasy Deck-Building Adventure
The forests of Kilforth lie silent.
Once they echoed with the songs of heroes, but those legends have long since faded into myth. The roads are broken. The old kingdoms have fallen. Across the wild places of the world, beasts, bandits, monsters, and darker things prey upon the unwary.
You are the last wanderer of a dying age.
Armed with little more than faith, steel, and determination, you must walk the Ruined Path, overcoming deadly threats, mastering ancient relics, and gathering the strength required to confront the horrors that lurk within the Rotten Copse.
The Ruined Path is a fast-paced solo fantasy deck-building card game set in the acclaimed World of Kilforth. Inspired by classic survival card games and streamlined deck-builders, it delivers meaningful decisions, tactical risk management, character progression, and epic fantasy adventure in a compact and highly replayable format.
Build Your Deck Through Victory
Every enemy you defeat becomes a new tool in your arsenal.
Each turn presents a difficult choice. Draw two Threats and decide which challenge to face. Some enemies are weaker but offer modest rewards, whilst others are dangerous foes guarding powerful abilities and valuable advantages.
Defeat a Threat and it joins your deck as a reward, expanding your options and increasing your power. Every victory changes your deck, every decision shapes your journey, and no two adventures unfold in exactly the same way.
Push Your Luck
Survival is never guaranteed.
Each Threat provides a limited number of free card draws. If you need more strength to win, you may pay Life to draw additional cards, desperately searching for the power needed to overcome your opponent.
Should you spend precious Life now to secure victory, or conserve your strength for the dangers that lie ahead? Every turn becomes a tense balance between risk and reward. Draw too cautiously and you may lose the fight, but push too far and you may not survive the journey.
Master Powerful Abilities
As your deck evolves, so do your options.
Discover cards that grant additional Life, draw extra cards, double your strength, or permanently refine your deck by destroying weaker cards and replacing them with stronger ones.
Careful deck management is the key to survival. A well-crafted deck can overcome seemingly impossible odds, whilst a poorly managed one may collapse when you need it most.
Journey Through Three Dangerous Locations
Your adventure takes place across three increasingly deadly regions of Kilforth:
- The Lost Forest — where your journey begins
- The Dank Caves — a realm of darkness, danger, and mounting challenges
- The Rotten Copse — a corrupted wilderness where only the strongest survive
Each Location presents new obstacles, modifies your deck, grants rewards, and prepares you for the trials ahead. As you progress deeper into the wilderness, Threats become increasingly dangerous and the margin for error grows ever smaller.
Face Terrifying Villains
Survive the three Locations and you earn the right to face a final adversary.
Eleven unique Villains stalk the world beyond the Ruined Path, each presenting a formidable final challenge. One is chosen at random every game, ensuring no two journeys end the same way.
Defeat the Villain and your tale becomes legend throughout Kilforth. Fall before them and your bones join the countless heroes who came before.
Fast to Learn, Difficult to Master
The Ruined Path is designed to provide a complete fantasy adventure in under an hour whilst retaining meaningful strategic depth.
Each game follows a simple but rewarding cycle: choose a Threat, draw cards from your deck, manage your Life, defeat your enemies, strengthen your deck with new rewards, survive the journey, and ultimately confront the final Villain.
Every game tells a story of sacrifice, perseverance, clever deck-building, and hard-won triumph against overwhelming odds.
Features
- Solo fantasy deck-building adventure
- Fast setup and streamlined gameplay
- Set in the acclaimed World of Kilforth
- Build your deck by defeating enemies
- Push-your-luck Life management system
- Three increasingly difficult Locations
- Eleven unique Villains
- Powerful Hero Upgrade cards
- Multiple optional Hero Classes
- High replayability through randomised encounters
- Rich fantasy artwork throughout
- Designed by Tristan Hall
Game Information
Players: 1
Playing Time: 30–60 minutes
Age: 14+
Designer: Tristan Hall
Will your name be remembered among the heroes of Kilforth, or will you become another forgotten traveller lost upon the Ruined Path?
