Press Kit
Fact Sheet
- Title
- Oath of Battle
- Developer
- Dredwork Games
- Engine
- LOVE2D (Lua)
- Platform
- PC (Steam)
- Genre
- Formation Autobattler Roguelite
- Release
- Early Access 2026
- Website
- oathofbattle.com
- Discord
- discord.gg/dredwork
Description
A formation autobattler roguelite framed around tarot, broken oaths, and the cost of crossing. Draft your squad from the Major Arcana, place them on a six-slot grid, and fight through a campaign that ends in a reading — win or lose.
Every run begins with a question and a three-card spread. Every run ends with an interpretation. The cards you carried, the battles you survived, the allies you lost — the game reads your choices after the fact, the way memory reads everything: selectively, and too late.
Features
- 20 playable Major Arcana units with distinct combat identities
- 6-slot grid formation with front/back row positioning
- Synergy and bond systems that reward deliberate composition
- Captain progression with branching power choices
- Beacons — Minor Arcana support objects that reshape battles
- Battlefield conditions: heavy rain, cursed fog, burning earth, and more
- 5 game modes from standard campaign to endless war
- 6 oath modifiers that change the rules of each run
- Pre-run tarot ceremony and post-run literary reading
- AI-generated shareable readings at oathofbattle.com
- Authored narrative throughout: vignettes, campfire scenes, combat narration
- 5 visual themes that change atmosphere, music, and shader
Influences
Into the Breach (formation matters), Slay the Spire (roguelite structure), Tarot (cosmology and framing), Darkest Dungeon (tone and consequence).
About Dredwork Games
Dredwork Games makes authored strategy games with literary ambition. Oath of Battle is our first release.